SUBSCRIBE chat center Chatboards|Lessons|Projects|Classifieds|Mailrings|Gazette|Jobs|Harry Wong|Live!|Advertise SUBMIT POST ALL POSTS TOP POSTS Share | Print | Report Post Math Teachers Chatboard Search Teachers.Net Advanced Quick Links: Set Hot Now... • July 2008 Gazette • Teacher Tech Center • The Lesson Bank Most Popular • Set Your Quick Links • Chat Center • All Chatboards • Lesson Bank • Teacher Mailrings • Project Center • Classified Ads • Live Chat & Meetings Select by • State/Region • Grade Level • Curriculum • Interest Group • Teaching Method Special Topics • Technology • Languages • Hot Topics • Career Center • Distance Learning • Fundraising • Tutoring Center • Teacher's Bookshelf • Free Printables • Classroom Photos • Meeting Archive • Teaching Articles • Library • Web Tools • Webring • Search • Advertise   Re: Math CSET single subject test Posted by Rodeo on 5/15/08 I was a math minor not a math major in college. But that was the dark ages in math when girls were steered away from math. I only ended up as a math minor because I blew the other students away on the college placement test by placing first and the math department chair told me this. It gave me the courage to think I could maybe do math even though I was a girl. I pick up math very fast. I wish I would have been a math major but I didn't think then of changing my major because it would have delayed me a year graduating. Anyway, my point is that I had a math minor in college and straight A's and one B+ in my math classes in college without trying very hard. But when I saw the CSET, I knew I was in trouble on Subtest I. I immediately hired a math doctorate student to tutor me for 2 hours every Saturday for two months before I took Subtest I. The math tutor and studying constantly got me to pass Subtest I. Subtest II I did on my own because the geometry is on high school level and the statistics and probability were my concentration in my major. I loved statistics in college and took a lot of it so I only reviewed for the statistics over 2 hours in the library. The probability I studied for by using a Barron's SAT math IC and IIC book. The Calculus subtest is pretty easy if you had Calculus recently. I had not so I had to study to refresh all of it. Definitely, subtest I is far more advanced than anything you ever had in high school or even college unless you were a math major. The other two subtests are basically high school level math. On 5/15/08, Rich/CA/Math wrote: > On 5/15/08, Shelley wrote: >> I need to take math CSET 1 & 2. It's been 25 years since >> I took high school Algebra & Geometry. The sample test >> questions look foreign to me. I don't think I can pass >> it. Anyone who passed had similar experience? What't the >> best way to prepare for the Math CSET? > > The math CSET (the subject matter competency test for > California) is no walk in the park. HS algebra and geometry > won't cut it because the test is premised on the proposition > that a HS math teacher should know a lot more than just the > HS curriculum. The algebra test contains not just the > algebra you'd find in an algebra 2 class and a math analysis > class, it has linear algebra, group theory, ring theory and > field theory. > > Forget when you took your last HS algebra and geometry, what > college math did you take? If you didn't take much then the > CSET is going to be very challenging for you. If you didn't > at least take Linear Algebra then all of the abstract > algebra stuff is going to be brand new to you - and this is > typically taught in an upper division math class. > > We have several teachers at my school who have tried > multiple times without coming close. These folks weren't > math majors, but some were math minors. > > I'd suggest finding some other folks in the same boat and > forming a study group - preferably with a tutor who knows > this stuff cold. Posts on this thread, including this one Math CSET single subject test, 5/15/08, by Shelley. Re: Math CSET single subject test, 5/15/08, by Rich/CA/Math. Re: Math CSET single subject test, 5/15/08, by Rodeo. Re: Math CSET single subject test, 5/16/08, by Rodeo to prison inmate interested in math. Re: Math CSET single subject test, 6/10/08, by Kathy W.. Re: Math CSET single subject test, 6/10/08, by Kathy W.       June: The 30 Days of Teachers.Net (Introduction) 1 The Gazette 2 The Mailrings 3 Harry Wong 4 Lesson Bank 5 Tech Center 6 Teacher Classifieds 7 State Teachers.Net 8 Live Chat & Meetings 9 Teacher Printables 10 Project Center 11 Chatboard Network 12 Share Teachers.Net 13 Your Feedback 14 Interest Groups 15 Administrators.Net 16 Chat Center 17 Streaming Teacher Video 18 Tutoring Center 19 Academic Grants 20 Teachers.Net Bookshelf 21 Chatboard Tips 22 Grade Levels 23 Staffroom Flyer 24 Teachers.Net Archives 25 Hot Topics 26 Language Arts 27 Subject Areas 28 Quick Links 29 Meet Teachers.Net 30 Summer Job Fair

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