Yo, one thing I know, math is part of life. Y’all pay yo’ bills every month, right? Gotta balance income and outgo? Math, right? Not jus’ that, but thinkin’ about what you wanna do after you get yo’ GED? Best payin’ jobs, all about math. Construction, design, computers, fightin’ fires, all of ‘em use math one way or another. Not to mention trackin’ all yo’ favorite sports teams. I got dat down. Found this article, ’bout eighth graders learnin’ all about how math leads on to better careers… somethin’ we all could learn: Math Is Everywhere
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Yo, guyz an’ gals. Connie wrote in askin’ for advice about word problems:

I’m not bad in math except when it comes to word problems any advice?

Hey, the GED’s real big on word problems, so you gotta get the hang of them. Why’d they gotta have word problems? Cuz they ain’t so much int’rested if you can figure out 3x + 4 = 12 as if you can figure out how much you’ll save each month if you buy generic soda instead of regular soda. See what I mean? One’s a plain math problem, the other’s a word problem. You’ve gotta first figure out what math you need to use it! See, my math teacher told me, math’s like a tool box. You got all these different math tools, and they help you do different things. You gotta know when to use what tool, to solve the problem you got in front of you. So, a math word problem is like a real-life problem that you might use math to solve. Okay, okay, whatcha really wanna know is, how to solve ‘em?
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Hey, yo. Here’s a question by Tanya that Liz forwarded me from her blog:

Im about to take my math test,I am horrible in math.right now I am working on word probloms.How do I know if these word probloms are asking me to subtract,divide,multiply or add.please help.
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Yo, all. Here’s another word problem from Zaher…

Satix is at a flea market. She wants to get the most knives at the lowest price. But she also wants to get at least one of each. The prices of the knives are: $ 4.30, $12.80, $11.50, $7.30, $ 7.50. If she has $50 to spend how much will her change be?

This is a tough word problem, so you gotta think it through. Hey, it’s great practice. Cuz if you can think through this, thinkin’ through some other word problems’ll be E-Z. This is what I call a number sense problem, cuz there ain’t no real advanced math, just makin’ sense of it, bein’ logical about it, and doin’ some basic math.
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Hey, all. Michael’s studyin’ for his GED, an he sent me this question:

am having problem with Lesson-7 page 491 on A. on Add or subtract as Directed reduce to the lowest terms.Am trying to figure out the form to work the fractions. am stuck on this one. Michael

Okay, here’s the rule with adding and subtracting fractions. Let’s start with a problem:

5/12 + 2/5
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Okay…I promised a GED word problem…word problems are a big part of the GED test, so it’s important to take a word problem and change it into a math problem before you can even do the math! So, why’s the GED test like this? Why’s it got so many word problems? Don’t they just make the GED test more confusing?
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I’ve been looking into this election stuff, and how we vote for president. We’ve got primaries, that narrow it down… then, we usually vote between two main people. But how do we get it down to two people? Is it fair? Well, I’m tryin’ to figure it out, so I’m tryin’ some GED math examples that have got to do with elections and voting. Yeah, GED math. See, I try to make my practice questions and studying about things that are interesting to me. So, that’s what I say… find what you’re interested in and study that!
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Okay, I’m all about the GED. But I got to know about this election stuff that’s going on. So to figure out some GED math about elections, I sent you to this website called The Mathematics of Voting, to learn more about math and voting.
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Yeah, everyone says there ain’t math in everyday life like in the GED math test, but look at how math makes a difference in who gets to be president? That’s a big deal… and you can see the same sort of math on the GED. So, here’s the question…
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Hey. Everyone’s all up on this New Year’s GED stuff, get your GED for the new year, and all that. I say, get your GED. Nuff said. New year, no new year, jus’ sit down and do it. All you got to do is study, an’ that GED is yours. Right?
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