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The students were reviewing several sections from their last chapter for the year, including series and sums of series, permutations and combinations, and probability. They were having no trouble with series, so we mostly just worked on permutations and combinations with several example problems, and especially being able to recognize the difference between the two in word problems. We also talked about sample space and events in the section on probability also with several practice problems.

For our final session today, I helped the student review all of her tests from this semester.  Her instructor will take material from those tests for the final exam tomorrow.  She has done very well throughout this course and is feeling confident going into her final.  

Worked with the student on reading. We read together for the majority of the session. I also worked with him on spelling.

We reviewed the math sections he had done in his practice test and went through the types of problems he missed. We focused on using estimation techniques as a time saver and reviewed a few concepts he had missed.

-review of 2nd grade sight words; was able to reduce by 7 words read fluently or recognized without prompting -through sight word study we reviewed the consonant diagraphs, compound words, and homophones. The student remembered a great deal of what we

The student and I reviewed several additional stock valuation problems that I had forwarded to him as homework that included problems related to the calculation of a current stock price, as well as a stock price in "x" number of years (and for this latter example, both the present value - dividend growth model approach was used as well as a future value approach). In addition, we reviewed a problem involving the basic dividend growth model (DGM) approach of D1 / r - g = price, a preferred stock calculation with the first dividend not paid out until a certain number of years in the future, and a growing dividend/ supernormal growth valuation.