Main Idea and Supporting Details
Academic Vocabulary
Math
Be Ready to Test
Potpourri
100
The primary concept of a passage
What is 'Main Idea'?
100
Two angles whose sum is 90 degrees.
What are 'complementary angles'?
100
What is the measure of angle ABD?
What is 59 degrees?
100
The recommended healthy sleep duration.
What is '8 to 10 hours'?
100
A strategy to check whether your answer(s) to an equation is/are accurate.
What is 'substitution'?
200
True or False: The main idea is always stated directly in a passage.
What is 'false'?
200
Words pronounced alike, but with different meanings.
What are 'homophones'?
200
When you add all the data and divide by the amount of numbers, you have found the ________?
What is mean?
200
What you should eat in the morning before a test (or really, every morning!).
What is 'a healthy breakfast'?
200
The secret to a higher-paying job, earlier retirement, more job satisfaction, and less risk of unemployment.
What is 'college'?
300
IAR often uses this term in place of Main Idea
What is 'Central Idea'?
300
The attitude a writer takes toward the audience.
What is 'tone'?
300
1/4 written as a decimal and a percent.
What is 0.25 and 25%?
300
The questions you should answer first.
What are 'the easy questions or the questions you know immediately'?
300
The strategy where you get rid of the answers you know are not correct.
What is 'elimination' or 'eliminate wrong answers'?
400
Facts, statements, and examples which guide us to a full understanding of the main idea
What are 'supporting details'?
400
Difference between things.
What is 'contrast'?
400
The coordinates of two vertices of square QRST are:
Q(3.6, 2.1)
R(-5.4, 2.1)
The length, in units, of each side of the square QRST.
What is 9 units?
400
What you should do before you go to bed the night before a test.
What is 'set your alarm'?
400
IAR is used to measure your readiness for this test you take in high school. (hint: it is a test score that colleges look at!)
What is 'SAT' or 'ACT'?
500
The movements Mrs. Biavati demonstrated to explain explicit and implied main ideas
What are 'in your face' and 'hiding behind my hands'?
500
The result of adding.
What is 'sum'?
500
The container that holds more chips.
What is 11 x 5 x 14?
500
Deep breathing and having a positive attitude are strategies that help you overcome this test-related feeling.
What is 'test anxiety'?
500
The full name for IAR.
What is 'I am ready' or 'Illinois Assessment of Readiness'?