Pretty Smart: Desmos How To: Every Calculator Move for the Digital SAT

The calculator is already on the test. Most students just poke at it. Every math question on the digital SAT comes with a full Desmos graphing calculator built into Bluebook. It will solve the equation, mark the vertex, test all four answer choices at once, and fit a line to a table. Almost nobody is taught how to use it. This book turns it into sixteen moves. Each move shows you the question shape, the exact keystrokes, and the mistake that shape is built to catch. Then you drill it until your hands know it without thinking. Inside - A six page quick reference, bound in at the front - 16 calculator moves, each with the exact keystrokes - Six worked examples with the screen drawn out, step by step - 302 practice questions with a full answer key - An index of question phrasings, so you always know which move to run - Ten traps that quietly cost points - A 48 question final test Written by a math teacher of more than twenty years, in the Cute Calculus style: pretty enough to keep open, useful enough to raise a score. For SAT and PSAT prep, junior and senior year.