Robert E. Moyer - McGraw-Hill Education Conquering GRE Math

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Dr. Robert E.

Moyer taught mathematics and mathematics education at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall, Minnesota from 2002 to 2009 and served as an adjunct professor of mathematics there from 2009 to 2012. Before coming to SMSU, he taught mathematics at Fort Valley State University in Fort Valley, Georgia, from 1985 to 2000. He served as head of the Department of Mathematics and Physics from 1992 to 1994. Prior to teaching at the university level, Dr. Moyer served for seven years as the K-12 mathematics consultant at Middle Georgia Regional Educational Service Agency, a five-county education cooperative in central Georgia. Dr.

Moyer taught high school mathematics for seven years in Rantoul, Illinois, and for five years in Carmi, Illinois. He has developed and taught numerous in-service courses for mathematics teachers. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics Education from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) in 1974. He received his Master of Science in 1967 and his Bachelor of Science in 1964, both in Mathematics Education, from Southern Illinois University (Carbondale).

I owe my daughter, Michelle Parent-Moyer, a great deal of thanks for all of the assistance she lent to the completion of both the original manuscript and subsequent revisions. She did research on the tests and the mathematics content in them, created the graphics used in the manuscript, and edited the manuscript.

Her work has also helped ensure the consistency of style, chapter format, and overall structure.

Because the people preparing to take the GRE have widely varying backgrounds and experiences in mathematics, this book provides an orientation to the mathematics content of the tests, an introduction to the formats used for the mathematics test questions, and practice with multiple-choice mathematics questions. There is an explanation of the quantitative comparison questions, data interpretation questions, numeric entry questions, and multiple-response questions that appear on the GRE. Many of the questions are general problem-solving questions in a multiple-choice format with five answer choices. The Quantitative Reasoning sections of the computer-based GRE each has twenty (20) questions with a thirty-five (35) minute time limit. On the paper-based GRE the two Quantitative Reasoning sections each has twenty-five questions with a forty (40) minute time limit.

The mathematics review is quite comprehensive; explanations, example problems, and practice problems cover arithmetic, algebra, and geometry. The mathematics on the GRE is no more advanced than the mathematics taught in high school. The topics are explained in detail, and several examples of each concept are provided. After a few concepts have been explained, a set of practice problems with solutions is provided. In each of the four mathematics review units, there is at least one multiple-choice test covering the concepts of the unit. The answers and solutions to the questions for each unit are provided in a separate section following the test.