Carla C. Kirkland - Praxis Core: 1,001 Practice Questions For Dummies

1,001 Praxis Core Practice Questions For Dummies

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1. Table of Contents

Welcome to 1,001 Praxis Core Practice Questions For Dummies. Dont take the dummies thing literally youre obviously smart and capable. Youve chosen to shape the minds of future generations through education. And on that quest, you will encounter obstacles. At least one of those is a Praxis exam.

This book is designed to give you lots of exposure to the kinds of questions youll see on the very first test for teachers: the Praxis Core Academic Skills for Educators exam (referred to as Praxis or Praxis Core from here on). To clear this hurdle, you need some practice and pointers on how best to answer the questions. This book provides that and more: It goes beyond providing relevant practice questions by showing simple and effective ways to solve challenging Praxis problems.

The Praxis Core practice problems in this book are divided into four chapters based on skills involving Math, Reading, Writing, and Essays. Questions are adjusted and repeated to give you practice and mastery. If you struggle with one question, you can find a group of similar questions to practice and hone your skills. This book serves as an effective standalone refresher of Praxis basics or as an excellent companion to the latest edition of Praxis Core For Dummies (Wiley). Either way, this book helps you identify subject areas you need to work on so you can practice them until youre a pro and thus prepare for test day.

If you get a problem wrong, dont just read the answer explanation and move on. Instead, come back to the problem and solve it again, this time avoiding the mistake you made the first time. This is how you improve your skills and figure out how to solve the problems correctly and easily.

Whatever you do, stay positive. The challenging problems in this book arent meant to discourage you; theyre meant to show you how to solve and master them.

The first part of this book gives you questions covering math, reading, and writing. All the answers and explanations are in the second part of the book.

The math subtest covers the following topics:

• Number and quantity: These questions focus on your understanding of order among integers, the representation of a number in more than one way, place value, whole number properties, equivalent computational procedures, ratios, proportions, and percentages.
• Algebra and functions: These questions assess your ability to handle equations and inequalities, recognize various ways to solve a problem, determine the relationship between verbal and symbolic expressions, and interpret graphs. In this section, you also encounter questions that test your knowledge of basic function definitions and the relationship between the domain and range of any given function.
• Geometry: These questions assess your the understanding and application of the characteristics and properties of geometric shapes, the Pythagorean theorem, transformations, and the use of symmetry to analyze mathematical situations. (Knowledge of basic U.S. and metric systems of measurement is assumed.)
• Statistics and probability: These questions assess your ability to read and interpret the visual display of quantitative information; understand the correspondence between data and graph; make inferences from a given data display; determine mean, median, and mode; and assign probability to an outcome.

The reading questions in this book cover the following topics: