FocusPrep Workbooks for PSAT 8/9, PSAT 10, PSAT/NMSQT and SAT

FocusPrep- PSAT 8/9 Math Workbook

With 24 essential foundation lessons for the new PSAT 8/9 for grades 8 and 9, this 230-page math workbook features over 300 calculator and no-calculator problems. It covers the three test syllabus areas such as the heart of algebra, problem solving and data analysis, and passport to advanced math. The QuickReview format helps you quickly review each lesson while the FocusPrep provides a checklist from the different areas. You'll gain a strong foundation for the PSAT 10, PSAT/NMSQT, and SAT. Note that this book doesn't cover geometry, trigonometry, radians, or complex numbers which are not tested in PSAT 8/9.

♥ PSAT 8/9 is for students in Grades 8 and 9 - to track readiness for college ♥ 24 Essential foundation lessons for the new PSAT 8/9 ♥ Over 300 calculator and no-calculator practice problems ♥ 230 page workbook covering the three test topic areas in detail ♥ Review lessons quickly using the QuickReview™ format ♥ FocusPrep checklist for each lesson ♥ Prepare with strong focus, strong foundation, and strong practice ♥ Build the foundation for PSAT 10, PSAT/NMSQT, and SAT

FocusPrep- PSAT 8/9 Reading and Writing Workbook

This workbook has 15 essential lessons that guide you through the Evidence Based Reading and the Writing and Language sections of the test. Each lesson presents focused material followed by several practice questions and answers. Complete your test preparation with a full length practice test.

All lessons are in QuickReview format to help you review the lessons quickly and remember them for a long time.

♥ PSAT 8/9 is for students in Grades 8 and 9 - to track readiness for college ♥ 15 Essential foundation lessons for the new PSAT 8/9 Reading and Writing test ♥ Review lessons quickly using the QuickReview™ format ♥ FocusPrep checklist for each lesson ♥ Prepare with strong focus, strong foundation, and strong practice ♥ Build the foundation for PSAT 10, PSAT/NMSQT, and SAT

FocusPrep – PSAT/NMSQT and SAT Math Workbook

This 340-page workbook covers the 35 essential lessons for the redesigned PSAT/NMSQT and SAT. It has 500 calculator and no calculator practice problems that span the four test syllabus areas of algebra, problem solving and data analysis, passport to advanced math, and advanced topics in mathematics. This workbook is a blueprint lesson to boost your confidence and covers topics such as extended thinking, trigonometry, radians, complex numbers, and more. You can review lessons quickly and master important problem solving techniques with our workbook.

♥ 35 Essential foundation lessons for the Redesigned PSAT 10 & SAT ♥ Over 500 calculator and no-calculator practice problems ♥ 340 page workbook covering four test syllabus areas in detail ♥ Extended Thinking, Trigonometry, Radians, Complex Numbers covered in detail ♥ Blueprint lesson to boost your confidence ♥ Review lessons quickly using the QuickReview™ format ♥ FocusPrep checklist for each lesson ♥ Master important problem solving techniques ♥ Prepare with strong focus, strong foundation, and strong practice

Gift of Logic Critical Thinking/Logic Workbooks

What is critical thinking?

Critical thinking is the thought process that helps us make decisions. This thought process can occur in any area — arts, religion, science, math, ethics, business, engineering, law, etc. Critical thinking skills are sometimes referred to as "higher order thinking skills" and "21st century skills." The critical thinking thought process involves analysis, synthesis, and deduction of available information to make decisions.

Logic is a very valuable tool that assists in the thought process. Trying to acquire critical thinking skills without proper grounding in logic will not help you solve complex problems. We have incorporated the fundamental principles of logic in our critical thinking and logical reasoning series so that you will find all the relevant materials in one place.

Since critical thinking skills can be applied in any field, we have divided the materials into verbal reasoning, analytic reasoning, and pictorial/figural reasoning to help you focus on these strands.

What is the Critical Thinking and Logical Reasoning book series?

The series consists of 12 workbooks that help you or your student develop critical thinking and logical reasoning skills in three areas - verbal, analytical, and pictorial. These skills are cognitive skills. Cognition is the process of gaining knowledge using reasoning, analysis, and perception. Developing skills in these areas gradually, year after year, is important to cultivate raw intelligence that is required for problem solving in any subject. These books will help you become sharp in reading, writing, speaking, critical thinking, analyzing, synthesizing, perceiving, inferencing, and solving problems in any area of life. These books are a very valuable resource for people of all ages.

How is the content presented?

There are 12 books in this series, 11 workbooks and one Primer. Answers are provided at the end of each book. To gain maximum advantage, it is necessary to follow the recommended reading plan and do the exercises in each book. Several concepts in logical reasoning are spread out in these workbooks.

What do these workbooks contain?

There are three sections in each workbook - verbal, analytical, and pictorial. The verbal reasoning sections in workbooks 0-2 get you started quickly in critical reading/thinking and logical reasoning through examples and exercises in finding the truth of statements, word and sentence analogies, inferences, and more.

The verbal reasoning section in workbooks 3-5 introduces concepts of logic such as conditional statements, categorical statements, causal statements, and inferencing (deduction). You become a critical reader by keeping a watchful eye on certain keywords that have a bearing on the logic in the statements. You become a critical thinker by knowing how to infer (deduce) the unstated.

The verbal reasoning section in the Primer book is a prerequisite for workbooks 6-10. It introduces argument structure, different types of arguments, deductive and inductive reasoning, and finding flaws in reasoning. The content in this book will help you be a critical reader and thinker. This book lays out the essential foundation for workbooks 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.

Verbal reasoning in workbooks 6-10 includes different types of exercises involving various types of arguments with the goal of making you a critical reader, writer, thinker, and speaker.

The analytic reasoning section in workbooks 0-2 help you develop the ability to solve problems that require thinking about possibilities, positioning, and grouping. Workbooks 3-5 introduce list processing, scheduling, sequencing, correlation, Venn diagrams, graph logic, and more.

Analytical reasoning content in workbooks 6-10 includes more complex positioning and grouping problems. Sudoku exercises are a great way to tune your analytical mind and are included in the analytical reasoning sections in all the 10 workbooks.

The pictorial reasoning section develops your visual reasoning skills by looking at pictures and understanding their contents and relation to other pictures. In workbooks 0-2, exercises to spot the difference between pictures, to find the next picture from a sequence of pictures, and to spot the odd picture from a set of pictures are introduced. In workbooks 3-5, pictorial analogy and pattern matching are introduced. In workbooks 6-10, advanced pictorial reasoning exercises involving pattern perception, paper folding and cutting, figure formation, figure matrix, figure analogy, and rule detection are introduced.

Is any math required?

These books are not about math. They are about developing your thinking skills in the verbal, analytical, and pictorial reasoning areas. Most of the material does not involve math at all. Basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are all that is necessary in some sections of these books.