Study Tips for Praxis: Middle School Math?

Question

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!

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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 8) 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.

Answer 3

From a number of instructors I hve talked to, the mathematics center college Praxis is amazingly confusing. It covers countless stuff which you does no longer generally see in MS Math. i comprehend a handful of instructors who've taken it distinctive cases and nonetheless won't be in a position to get a qualifying score. in the Praxis sequence, it extremely relies upon on what your state accepts as qualifying. VA has their standards set extreme, so which you may could do extra advantageous on it extra effective than different assessments. solid success!