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"I wanted to make sure the student is caught up in class, so we practiced several challenging problems covering limits, discontinuity, and derivatives. She is now caught up and we will be covering related rates next. "

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"I printed out and brought a practice test for the student to do in preparation for his test that is coming up soon. The student has made drastic improvements on his test-taking and I am confident that he will pass his test."

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"Today's session was about logarithms. I built up to logs from the very beginning, by talking about all of algebra as addition and multiplication, and then logs and exponents as answering questions about how many multiplications happen. Then we worked through all the usual stuff: graphs of log functions, laws of logs, translating exponential equations to log and vice versa, solving exponential and log equations, and change of base. The student had a lot of great questions about edge cases of logs. "

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"Today was my first session with this student. We talked a lot about what she felt she struggled with and what she felt she handled well. From the very beginning, it was clear that she was bright and willing to challenge herself. We primarily focused on study skills and writing skills regarding her upcoming test on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. She's incredibly self-motivated, as evidenced by her color coding of the novel and her work on her short-answer packet. She clearly understands the material, even if some of the concepts are foreign to her. The primary struggle for the student is that there seems to be a barrier between her formulating her thoughts and getting them coherently onto the page. When she talked directly to me about the material, her answers were complex and made a lot of sense. On paper, however, she struggled to articulate the same statements. We worked to have her rewrite her own work and say her sentences aloud as she wrote them and it seemed to have a positive effect! We also addressed some basic sentence structure and grammar in order to give her a background for why some of her writing may need work. I'm going to put together a grammar packet for her and email it for practice over the next week. She has great potential as a writer because she thinks deeply about subjects; she just needs help in building the tools to express herself. "

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"Yesterday's session was excellent. The student was able to understand the definition of a function, which was one of the new ideas that he has been having the most trouble with. We spent about half the time working on relations, charts, and graphs, and how to decide if they are functions or not. He was able to really understand it, which is great considering that it's a very abstract idea that lots of students struggle with. We spent the rest of the time talking about linear equations and how to graph them. He is getting pretty good at plotting coordinate points, and he got a pretty good start at graphing linear equations. All of this material was a little bit overwhelming to him when they started covering it in class a few weeks ago, but now he is starting to catch up."

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"The student is currently taking Algebra 2 and physics. We went over solving equations that involved multiple roots of x and configured the equation to solve for x. We covered domains of functions and how to embed functions. The physics portion covered basic manipulation of work and energy. We went over a bit more advanced physics to solidify ideas."

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"The student and I covered the basic terminology of science, such as observation, hypothesis, prediction, theory, and law. We also reviewed three different sciences including earth, life, and physical science. Lastly we covered math problems on acceleration, velocity, time and distance which she struggled a little bit with. However she was determined to push through it. She says that her teacher will provide more practice questions and she feels she will get more of a hang of it with repetition."

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"The student has the content knowledge to do amazingly on the test, but she needs to work on timing. She took a timed quantitative section and finished with 30 minutes remaining. She answered 70% of the questions correctly and did much better at the beginning of the test, but she made a number of minor errors that could be remedied by slowing down a bit. We will continue to work on her time management. She's also going to take a practice test this weekend."

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"I covered with the student simplification of expressions relating to the exponent properties and the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of polynomials. He needed help with solving most problems accurately without missing part of a problem from a previous step. He is more aware and is trying harder to catch himself in that part. We will continue to work on that. "

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"The student and I are working on editing strategies, and also comprehension. Today we talked about homophones, and words that end in -ck. We reviewed adjectives and their purpose in writing. He read several books and talked about what they were about. He enjoys writing on the board so we wrote sentences on the board using rhyming words. "

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"I worked with both students today. Student 1 is reviewing chapter 10 on polar coordinates, vectors, parametric functions, and their derivatives. Student 2 has a chapter test tomorrow on applications of derivatives."

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"The student and I worked on reviewing geometry for his state assessment exam this week. We covered circles, specifically area and circumference. We also worked on volume, and I advised him to make flash cards of the important formulas. He was comfortable with a quick review of transformations and triangles. I will see him next Monday!"

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