Award-Winning Private Algebra Tutoring in Gastonia, NC

"The student has received copies of former algebra assessments. At home he tried to solve the multiple choice problems on one of them, and he said his teacher was planning to collect some uncompleted written answer portions of it, so today we went through the problems he attempted, as well as the uncompleted questions. The multiple choice involved calculating percentages and solving systems of equations. The written answers included finding common factors among square roots, and finding the intersection of graphs of two inequalities. For his next lesson (Friday), the student will continue working on assessments, and do any questions he can in the new practice book, ideally starting from the first chapter. He put in a lot of effort during this lesson and stayed concentrated, and I'm confident that he can continue to master the mathematics he will need in order to learn algebra for the next assessment."

"We finished off the review packet given to the student by the math department. This part of the review mainly concerned polynomial functions and the properties of graphs we can derive without using calculus. He seemed to have a grasp on this material rather quickly and I only saw a little bit of struggling with the horizontal asymptotes of rational functions. I think this obstacle was due to the fact that he had yet to sit down and memorize the three possible cases. Once we finished off the packet, I selected a few problems and had him try them on his own while under my supervision. This seemed to help a lot both in building confidence and in building understanding. He left the session feeling prepared for the test so I take that as a massive success from this session. "

"Today the student and I reviewed a quiz that he was given at school. It covered sections 8.6-8.9 which are the ones we have been working on for our last two sessions. He worked on the quiz by himself and occasionally asked if he was approaching the question correctly. He answered all the questions that he did by himself correctly and once I explained how to do those that he was unsure about, he also was able to answer these. For the rest of our session, the student and I worked on his history notes over the Renaissance. I also made the student a outline over the section we were working on. He and I may meet on Sunday and if we do, we plan to work on a study guide then. If we do not meet on Sunday, we have decided that the student will work on the study guide on his own and send it to me when he is finished so that I can look over it and see if he answered the questions correctly. He had a quiz on Thursday which he said went well. He also said he feels confident with the material in sections 8.6-8.9 which is great! "