Webinars SET B - Grade 1-2 - Sunday@5:45-6:45pm EST-Recording Webinar 10 - The 4-Step Method and Math Kangaroo 2022 Test

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The webinar is a final review session preparing students for an upcoming math competition exam. The instructor explains the exam format: 24 questions in 75 minutes, split into three sections worth 3, 4, and 5 points each. Students are advised to work in order from easiest to hardest to build confidence and avoid getting stuck early. Key test-taking strategies include reading each question at least twice, carefully examining diagrams, underlining keywords, and writing brief solution steps to organize thinking and make checking easier. Students are strongly encouraged to use the full 75 minutes and not submit early, since answers can’t be changed after submission.<br /><br />A warm-up poll shows most students reread questions, but many don’t underline keywords; the instructor emphasizes that underlining saves time and reduces mistakes. The class reviews a four-step method for harder problems: understand the question, identify the problem type and strategy (patterns, work backward, guess-and-check, logic), write steps, and check quickly. If stuck, students should move on, return later, and always guess rather than leave blanks because there is no guessing penalty.<br /><br />The session then runs a timed mock test using 2022 exam questions, focusing on 4- and 5-point problems. Solutions demonstrate logical reasoning, reflection/mirror-image rules, pattern recognition, ordering constraints, sum puzzles, path/maze turning logic, and minimizing swaps to sort cards. The webinar ends with encouragement to practice, rest before the test, and complete a course evaluation, plus a brief promotion for a summer camp.

Keywords

math competition exam prep

final review webinar

24 questions 75 minutes format

3-4-5 point sections

test-taking strategies

underlining keywords

timed mock test 2022 questions

problem-solving methods (patterns, work backward, guess-and-check, logic)

no penalty guessing strategy

logic puzzles (reflections, ordering, swaps, mazes)