I’m going to sign up for the Middle School Math Praxis test, but I would like to know if anyone else took the test and topics I should really focus on. Were there topics on there you were surprised to see for middle school math? Did you use a good study guide? Math usually comes easy for me, but I’m an elementary school teacher, and I’m sure I need to brush up on some topics.
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks!
I did not know they had a separate PRAXIS for Middle School Math. I took the general Math PRAXIS and I teach high school math. I thought it was very simple, but my bachelors degree is in mathematics, so that might explain it.
If it’s been a while since you had trigonometry and calculus, I would brush up on those. Also, the PRAXIS website has practice tests and practice questions you can take. If you can’t find a full practice test online, call a local university education department. They should have some practice PRAXIS exams as well.
Good luck! Don’t sweat it. It’s really not very hard.
February 17th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
I did not know they had a separate PRAXIS for Middle School Math. I took the general Math PRAXIS and I teach high school math. I thought it was very simple, but my bachelors degree is in mathematics, so that might explain it.
If it’s been a while since you had trigonometry and calculus, I would brush up on those. Also, the PRAXIS website has practice tests and practice questions you can take. If you can’t find a full practice test online, call a local university education department. They should have some practice PRAXIS exams as well.
Good luck! Don’t sweat it. It’s really not very hard.
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February 17th, 2010 at 10:33 pm
I did not do my Praxis in math, but rather in Spanish and French. No one else has answered, so I thought I would offer the best advice I have.
I got a high school book and flipped through the pages. The things that I absolutely new and remembered I just skipped. The harder topics I paused on and reviewed. If there were some terms that I did not recall well I jotted them down and made my own study guide.
When I took the test there were some questions that I knew right away and they came directly from the textbook review. Other things were very easy and I had no problem with.
See if you can get a middle school text (or one for each grade; 6, 7 and
and just go through them. I think that you will be fine if you do that. Afterall, that is what they want you to know; the stuff that you would be teaching.
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