A Guide to Conquering the COMPASS Mathematics Placement Test

A Guide to Conquering the COMPASS Mathematics Placement Testis self-contained and gives comprehensive coverage of topics (Pre-algebra and Algebra) often encountered on the COMPASS Mathematics Placement Test. It is unique since it focuses solely on preparing students to pass the COMPASS Mathematics Placement Test. The text is written with the student in mind. Therefore, it offers an uncomplicated approach for ease of comprehension, which is then reinforced by lots of follow-up examples that illustrate the rules. The guide uses standard as well as alternative techniques that help students "get it". A skeleton of this text has been used by one of the authorsrs" students with great success. Thus, this finished more "polished" version would be of invaluable help for all students preparing to take the COMPASS Mathematics Placement Test. The text can be used for a fast paced Immersion Program as well as for an entire semester course.

Dr. Anthony E. Clement is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York. He has over 10 years of experience of success teaching remedial mathematics offered through the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Brooklyn College.  In preparing students to take the standardized multiple-choice CUNY Assessment Mathematics Test, and then recently, the COMPASS Mathematics Placement Test, Professor Clement had a passing rate close to 100%.    Over the last five years, the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Brooklyn College has recruited Dr. Clement to help train new faculty members who prepare students for the COMPASS Mathematics Placement Test.  Presently, faculty members are using the materials that he developed to help them as a guide in preparing and teaching courses for the test.

 

 

Stephen Majewicz received his PhD in mathematics at the CUNY Graduate Center and is currently an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, New York. He began teaching mathematics in 1990 at the age of 19 as a teaching assistant at SUNY Stonybrook, and has been teaching math ever since. In addition to A Guide to Conquering the COMPASS Mathematics Placement Test, he is also the author of College Algebra: A Narrative Approach, 2E, College Trigonometry: A Narrative Approach and Precalculus: A Narrative Approach, 2E. 

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