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19 Cards in this Set
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What is the entire passage about?
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I'm being asked to identify "subject matter".
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What are essentail points of the passage?
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I'm being asked to find the "main idea".
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Main Idea
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The one that is supported by other material or information
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What are the specific facts or opinions used?
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I'm being asked to locate "details"
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What does the author want you to do or believe?
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I will need to consider the "purpose" of the main idea or generalization here.
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What conclusions can be drawn from the generalizations or the details of the passage?
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I must look for the main ideas stated or implied and the details that support them. From these statements or inferences, I can draw "conclusions".
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How can you apply the conclusions you have made about a passage to new situations not addressed in the passage?
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The question asks me to "apply" the conclusion I have drawn and use them to determine new conclusions in situations that share some similarity to those in the passage.
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What is the feeling or attitude of the author toward the subject matter of the passage?
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I must look for words in this passage that express feelings. I am focusing on the writer's "tone" and "attitude".
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What is the general meaning of a word used in the passage?
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"As used in the passage" is the key phrase in this question. I must consider the words or sentences surrounding this unfamiliar term to determine its meaning. I must be focused on "vocabulary" in context.
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What do you notice about the organization of the passage or how are the generalizations related to each other?
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How does the author communicate ideas to me? I am looking for "communicatiion techinques".
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What should alert you to details?
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Proper Nouns and Prepositional Phrases beginning with at, on, by, near, above
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The Real Number System
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used in everyday mathematics
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Counting Numbers (natural numbers or positive integers)
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5....
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Whole Numbers
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set of counting numbers and 0. (0, 1, 2, 3...)
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Integers
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includes he set of whole numbers and the set of negative counting numbers
( -2, -1, 0, 1, 2...) |
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What is the set of rational numbers?
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Fractions, repeating decimals, and finite devimals
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Finite Decimal
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one that stops
Ex:// 0.25 |
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Repeating Decimal
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one that will repeat forever
Ex:// 0.255555 |
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Irrational Numbers
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non-repeating decimals, like pi and radicals
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