Ultimate Guide to the Math ACT

Book info: Ultimate Guide to the Math ACT (Paperback, 268 pages) – Richard Corn, LLC, 2018. Language: English.

PLEASE NOTE: This 2nd edition of the Ultimate guide to the Math ACT has been replaced by the 3rd edition. Click "See all formats and editions" to order the 3rd edition.

Ultimate Guide to the Math ACT contains everything you need to know to get your best possible score on the math section of the ACT. It can be used as a standalone text or as a companion to the official prep guides published by the ACT.

This book contains lessons on 38 topics that may appear on the math ACT. Throughout the lessons, there are screenshots of how to use the TI-84 family of calculators to solve problems. Topics are taken from algebra, geometry, pre-calculus, and statistics.

Each topic includes:

• Formulas you will need to know
• Homework problems (more than 550 problems total)
• Solutions to the homework problems

Ultimate Guide to the Math ACT shows how often topics appear on the test. This enables students with high target scores (30+) to focus on the material they need without getting bogged down in math fundamentals. Students with more modest target scores can focus on the fundamentals without being distracted by advanced material not needed to hit their targets.

Ultimate Guide to the Math ACT also contains practical advice on how to practice taking the tests, such as:

• How to set your target score
• Optimizing your pace based on your target score
• Steps to follow when solving problems, which improve problem selection
• How to get the most from every practice test
• Six useful problem-solving techniques that you probably never learned in school

See for yourself why more than 30,000 students have used what is referred to as the “gold standard” of ACT math books!

Editorial Reviews From the Author Starting in September 2025 the ACT will be changing.  The enhanced ACT will be shorter than the existing ACT and the science section will be optional.  In math, the ACT will change from 60 questions in 60 minutes to 45 questions in 50 minutes.  The ACT will be available to take online or on paper.

It is not clear how the content of the math section will change or how substantial the changes will be.  In the meantime, the ACT guidance is that the content will not change substantially and that earlier test prep materials are appropriate to use.  Their web site states that "available ACT test prep materials are still great for preparing because there has been no significant change in the types of knowledge and skills measured by the ACT test with the enhancements."

These changes apply to the national test dates in the US and to students taking the ACT outside the US.  They to not apply to US school or district ACT testing. About the Author Richard Corn tutors high school students in math and standardized test preparation for the ACT and  SAT.  His tutoring students have increased their math scores by as much as 210 SAT points (or ACT equivalent), and his prep books have sold more than 50,000 copies.  For more information please visit his web site at mathtutorct.com.
 
His students have gone on to attend many top colleges, including Amherst, Babson, Bates, Berkeley, BC, Bowdoin, Brown, Bucknell, Claremont McKenna, Colgate, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Davidson, Duke, Emory, Georgetown, Hamilton, Johns Hopkins, Lehigh, MIT, Michigan, Middlebury, Mt Holyoke, NYU, Northwestern, Penn, Princeton, RPI, Smith, Stanford, Tufts, Tulane, UNC, UVA, Vanderbilt, Vassar, Villanova, Wake Forest, Washington University, Wesleyan, West Point, and Yale.