Master the Math Section Patterns + High Yield Topics
The math section on the digital SAT has a lot of content covered and can be very tricky, but once you understand the patterns it becomes much easier.
In this course, we will help you remedy any math intuition holes you may have and help you become familiar with the major strategies on the test.
Become a Desmos Master
50-70% of the questions on the math SAT can be answered with a skillful use of Desmos and a basic understanding of the math patterns.
...but most students don't know how much you can do with Desmos.
How to increase your Digital SAT Math score by 50-150 points this summer without the overwhelm
A Focus on Evidence-Based Studying Techniques
Most courses don’t teach students how to actually study for the SAT. They just give them the content and expect them to know the best ways to learn it. I teach not just the content, the rules, and the material, but also a SYSTEM for HOW to study it for long-term retention and understanding.
Tons of Live Support + Teaching
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Can't Make the Live Sessions? No problem. It's Self-Paced Too!
Even if the time doesn't work for you, you can still participate in the self-paced lessons + quizzes. Everything we go over live will have a self-paced counterpart.
Curriculum
(Lessons will become available at the beginning of the course June 27th)
- Practice Solving Problems Multiple Ways - don't get attached to one approach
- Explain WHY you use what you use, don't just go by rote memorization
- Narrate your reasoning in your head - always have a great reason to choose an answer.
- Always check that you gave the answer they asked for specifically
- If something doesn't make sense, verify it
- A Quick Overview of Every Major Desmos Trick
- Constants vs. Variables in Desmos
- Desmos for Linear Equations
- Desmos for Polynomial Questions
- Desmos when you don't know how to do a problem. The LET trick.
- The Strategy of putting in both sides of an equation to see solutions
- Using Sliders Strategically
- Graph Points in Desmos
- Desmos for Statistical Functions
- Use function notation in Desmos for function shifts
- Use desmos to see if equations are equal - Not ideal - Hail Mary Problem Attempt
- What you can and can't use desmos for
- Linear Equation Intuition
- Tricky Order of Operations Questions
- Tricky Factoring Questions
- Linear Equations and Inequalities
- Linear Equation Form Mastery
- Linear Graph Tricks
- In-Depth Linear Word Problem Review + Worked Problem Sets (54:09)
- Systems of Linear Equations
- Word Problem Trick - Create "Word Equations First"
Hi, I'm Tom.
After working for 10 years in various mentoring, teaching, and tutoring opportunities, I developed a system for helping adolescents cultivate self-connection, efficient work habits, and transform their academic experience into an opportunity to bring out their best selves.
I do what I do because few things are more satisfying to me than seeing the pride that students feel when they achieve something they thought was impossible.
After I studied accelerated learning techniques and studied with some of the best SAT tutors and coaches in the country, I refined and simplified them into a system designed to be easily digested by today’s teenage students and can also be incorporated into the rest of their lives.
I helped students go from confusion and failing classes to confidence to confidence and A’s.
I helped students who were confused about their life path take their interests more seriously.
I give my students what I wish I had as a teen.
