Today I want to talk to you about some equations concepts that you'll hopefully find helpful for the math modules in the SAT. As we all know, Desmos is a hugely powerful tool that helps you, uh, save a lot of time and move through a lot of math really quickly. But you'll also have to confront some pretty pesky word problems, and a lot of those test, um, more abstract or conceptual, uh, concepts. ideas about what an equation is, how it's put together, when you multiply, when you add, um, and that sort of thing that Desmos really can't help you with.

In the video above, I describe a concept frequently tested on both the SAT and the ACT: misplaced modifiers. A modifier is a word, phrase, or clause that modifies a noun. A noun is a person, place, or a thing.

We label a modifier “misplaced” when the descriptive word, phrase, or clause is too far away from what it is describing, because that distance obscures the meaning of the sentence.