Math Tips 

1.  Read the directions at least two times.  Make sure you understand what the question is asking.

2.  When you answer a question, especially on the written responses, make sure it answers the question being asked.

3.  If you are having trouble answering a multiple choice question, look for the choices you know for sure are wrong.  Cross them out and choose from the choices that are left over.

4.  When you work the problems on scratch paper, do it neatly.  Make sure you are lining numbers up correctly.  If you need to draw some kind of "picture" to help you solve the problem, please do so.

5.  Always check your work.  Subtraction problems are checked by adding the answer you got to the bottom number that was subtracted.  Division is checked by multiplying your answer and the number you divided by.

6.  If you are answering a written response question, please make sure you show ALL  of your work.   Don't erase anything.  If you are having to explain your work, tell what you did step by step as if you were teaching someone how to do that problem.  Remember you get points not only for a correct answer, but for your steps in solving that problem.   That means that you can get a wrong answer, but still get points if the steps you took were correct.