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I introduced her to a helpful website to help with transformations of functions. We spent a good amount of time practicing solving a system of equations with 3 variables by hand. The last thing we discussed was simplifying expressions with rational exponents.

The student was allowed to show her strengths and weaknesses and demonstrate her fund of knowledge. We worked ahead in sections she anticipated were to be covered immediately when she returns to class Tuesday.

We looked through practice problems assigned by the student's teacher to do over winter break. The student is preparing for a test next Wednesday. The student is struggling with factoring and solving some quadratic equations and complex numbers. The student will send me a practice problem set before next session.

In our first session together, the student and I covered two problem sets. The first problem set dealt with converting fractions to decimals using long division, and conversely, converting decimals to fractions. He did very well with this content. The second problem set dealt with introductory physics concepts: The relationships between distance, velocity, and acceleration. We worked on how to perform systematic unit conversions and how to calculate distance based on velocity and time. He had a more difficult time with unit conversion and we will work on this going forward.

Almost all of this session was spent working on 2-variable matrix elimination problems. I assigned a number of these for her to do. This is the last major topic, and she needs practice on her own first. We will finish by working on 3-value ones next time, and will then focus on final review points.

Today we went through the graph investigation. We graphed reflections, translations, dilations, contractions, and rotations. The student struggled a bit with the rotations. She also was confused on y=1 versus x=1 so we spent some extra time reviewing that concept.