Good stuff coming Sunday
No column by me this week. (Pause for wild cheering.)
We do have some wonderful stories. Try this one by staff writers Margaret Moffett Banks and Matt Williams: "The city of Greensboro holds second mortgages on 24 privately owned low-income apartment complexes, many of which have never earned money and likely will be unable to repay the city when the loans come due."
And even though the outstanding loans are in the millions of dollars: "City leaders ... say that providing affordable housing to poor people outweighs the financial risk of lending for apartment managers who have little ability to repay the loans."
Also: Staff writer Tom Steadman reports that North Carolina's restricted driver's licensing program for new drivers has dramatically cut fatalies among 16-year olds. But teenagers are still four times as likely as older drivers to become involved in deadly accidents.
And for every parent who has a 15-, 16- or 17-year-old thinking about college -- I'm one -- staff writer Bruce Buchanan tells you what you need to know about the "new" SAT.
Oh, and a certain basketball tournament at the Coliseum might make its way into the paper.
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I enjoyed the article about the new SAT in Sunday's News & Record page A11. How would a SAT preparation class answer the math sample questions?
Question one requires a knowledge of ratios of a strategy called plug in. The rule for ratios is, a ratio is the sum of it parts what ever is done to one part of the ratio must be done to all parts of the ratio.
Question 2 requires that the student understands absolute notation. Student could use Plug in to find correct answer. In this case answer C is correct.
Question 3 requires knowledge or right triangles. Student could use POE (process of elimination) or just do it (JDI) strategy to solve.
While knowledge is the best weapon on the test strategies can aid a student in finding the correct answer. Which is what the SAT measures --- the number of correct answers!
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Posted on March 6, 2005 2:41 PM