Top 10 GMAT Problem Solving Tips
The Problem Solving (PS) section of the GMAT may not be as quirky as the Data Sufficiency section of the test – but that doesn’t mean you don’t need to study for it! PS questions require more “straight math” than Data Sufficiency questions; in other words, they’ll probably be more …
Top 10 Tips for the GMAT Data Sufficiency Section
If you’re just starting your GMAT prep (or even if you’ve been at it for a little while), the Data Sufficiency section can be tricky. After all, who ever heard of a math problem that you don’t actually have to solve? The good news is that with some strategic practice, …
World Cup Grammar
David Ingber is the Faculty Manager at Knewton If you watch the World Cup over the next few weeks, you are bound to hear the commentators utter sentences like this: “England, which have not brought the World Cup trophy back to their homeland in over 50 years, face a difficult …
GMAT Math: A Classic Problem
In an earlier post, I discussed Dan Meyer’s visionary talk about the future of math education. Halfway through the talk, Meyer mentions a classic problem in which students must determine how long it takes to fill a tank with water. A typical textbook would give students all (or most of) …
SAT Prep Tip: The Case for Guessing
David Yourdon is a Content Developer for the Knewton SAT Course. He is also a cook and a saint. High school sometimes feels like it hinges on two tests: the driving test and the SAT. And though you’re probably more excited to start driving than you are to start applying …
Problems with Conventional Math Problems
David Yourdon, a Content Dev @Knewton, proves we’re not just obsessed with the GMAT, LSAT, and SAT. The academics team at Knewton has been buzzing about a video that one of our expert teachers, Chris Wu, sent around this morning. It’s a TEDx talk by Dan Meyer, a high school …
Adaptive learning and traffic lights
The adaptive learning engine that we’re building at Knewton is part of a larger trend of adaptive approaches to some of the world’s biggest problems. Rather than rely on rules that are etched in stone — rules that frequently have no bearing on the situation at hand — an adaptive …
