Jouve North America - McGraw-Hill Education Mathematical Reasoning Workbook for the GED Test

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This workbook contains practice problems to help you sharpen your mathematical skills in preparation for taking the GED Mathematical Reasoning test.

Start your mathematics practice by taking the Mathematical Reasoning Pretest at the beginning of this book. It will help you decide which chapters of the workbook will be most valuable to you. You will also see some samples of the special question formats that appear on the actual exam. Take the pretest in a controlled environment, with as few distractions as possible. Use a calculator, and if you want to more closely simulate testing conditions, limit yourself to 90 minutes, although you may prefer taking the test untimed in order to get a chance to think about every problem. When you are done, or when time is up, check your answers in the Answers and Solutions directly following the pretest, where you will find short explanations of a correct approach to each problem.

Next, find the problem numbers you answered incorrectly in the Evaluation Chart to identify the chapters on which you need to concentrate. Each of the twelve chapters in the book consists of an exercise of 50 problems on a different individual topic in mathematics. The number of problems is intended to expose you to the variety of contexts and situations in which various mathematical problems arise. The questions have also been carefully designed to match each of the following: the test content specified by the test makers the depth of knowledge (DOK) levels that the test makers use to measure how well you understand each topic the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) that the test makers expect you to have mastered The exercises are not intended to be timed, but if you find that you are familiar with a topic, you could try timing yourself on a few problems, attempting to correctly work 5 problems in 9 minutes, for example. Answers and Solutions for the problems in the exercises are located directly following the last chapter. Finally, when you have completed the last exercise, take the Mathematical Reasoning Posttest at the back of this book.

This test can help you to reevaluate yourself after practicing in the workbook as much as you feel is necessary. It also contains more samples of the special question formats used on the real exam. Answers and Solutions are located at the end of the posttest, which can help you decide if you are ready to take the GED Mathematical Reasoning test or if you need further practice.

The GED Mathematical Reasoning test is divided into two parts. Part I consists of 5 questions to be completed without a calculator. A calculator is available for Part II.

Once you have started working on Part II, you will not be able to return to Part I. The individual parts are not timed, but the entire test is limited to 90 minutes. The GED Mathematical Reasoning test is a computer-based test, which allows for a broad range of item types. There are many multiple-choice items, each of which has four answer choices from which to choose. There are also many technology-based items with formats such as fill-in-the-blank, drop-down, hot spot, and drag-and-drop. Drop-down: A list of possible responses is displayed when the response area is clicked with the mouse. Drop-down: A list of possible responses is displayed when the response area is clicked with the mouse.

These may occur more than once in a sentence or question. Hot spot: Images on the screen have one or more areas where a response is entered by clicking with the mouse. For example, a line in a coordinate system is entered by clicking the locations of two points on the line.