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"During this session, we started reviewing for her final, which will take place in a couple of weeks. We started from chapter 1 and reviewed topics such as writing algebraic expressions and equations, writing and solving ratios, identifying properties of integers and whole numbers, and graphing functions from equations. She understood the concepts well, except she still makes small mistakes while working out problems and she still struggles with word problems. I told her to do more practice problems to study and to especially focus on the word problems. "

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"The student and I spent our session today studying for his upcoming unit test in History. We picked up on his fourth page of notes, where we had left off previously (on Thursday), and reviewed the rise of Christianity and the fall of the Roman Empire. I was thrilled that the student seems not only interested in the material, but that he has outstanding recall abilities when he is engaged in a way that he can appreciate. On Thursday, we went over 12 factors that contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire, and today, he rattled all 12 back to me with absolutely no difficulty, despite admitting that he hadn't had a chance to review them since our previous session. We also discussed a list of primary documents that were suggested as test prep material by his teacher, and the author and significance of each document. We also identified key points within each document that might isolate the document from the other potential documents, in case his test included identifying the documents by a quoted passage. We concluded with some discussion about The Odyssey, which the student is continuing to read for English, and the prompt that he received for a probable in-class essay which centers around Odysseus' actions on the island of Helios. He seemed comfortable and familiar with either side of the argument, as well as the text, and (again) showed how engaged he was by initiating a comparison between the text and the 1997 movie version, which he happily showed me a scene from to prove his point. "

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"The student and I continued to work on 5th and 6th grade math concepts. Since her placement exam was today (Tuesday), we focused on practicing with concepts she might see on that exam. I tried to pick problem sets and concepts that were both familiar and unfamiliar to the student. To this end, we covered order of operations problems, setting-up basic expressions using variables, practice with percentages and solving for the variable. She handled these concepts well despite the fact that certain problems (as in solving for the variable) requires skipping many of the logical steps she will encounter as she goes further in her mathematics education. To ensure that the student remained confident about her exam, I broke down problems into short sets of rules (for example, if she sees a variable multiplied by a number, she knows that to get rid of the number, she must do the opposite function - that is, divide). I also talked to the student about test taking strategies - to answer the questions she knows, skip the ones she doesn't and always make sure to keep track of the questions she skips on her answer sheet! I also reaffirmed to her that in the end, this is simply a placement test and while she should always try to do her best and work hard, one placement test will not determine her mathematics future!"

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"Today, we reviewed some of the general principles of factoring quadratic trinomials as well as introduced a new kind of factoring. Initially, he had forgotten the steps necessary to factoring so I briefly reminded him by factoring an example. Afterward, he was able to correctly factor the problems from the work I had given him. Later, we looked at perfect square and difference-of-two-square factoring. This were less difficult for the student and he worked through them quickly. He was even able to use the concept to solve a perfect square trinomial where the variables were replaced with polynomials. Lastly, I introduced him to factoring trinomials where the highest term had a coefficient. He had not seen this before and was unsure how to go about factoring them. I presented a few different methods he could use. Once he understood that, he was able to work through several of the problems using the methods given to him. "

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"The student is working on hyperbolas in class. We went over different approaches to the problem. We are really working to make sure that he reads all directions on his homework and shows all of his work. "

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"We first went over the remaining problems that the student had missed on his packet. Afterwards, I had him complete the assessment that was given about 2 weeks ago. On the first attempt he received a 67%. On the second try he earned a 87%. This is a marked increase and I believe that the student has shown great gains in our sessions. "

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"The student and I caught up and also discussed whether she wanted to take the SAT II in US History and Literature depending on which colleges she will be applying to. She hasn't yet made up her mind definitively. We then jumped back into SAT prep and decided she will complete 4 practice sections before our next session on Sunday. This will be a quick way to get back into the swing of things. We then began working on a Writing section. She completed it, and we went over several of the problems about which she had questions."

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"We did a short hour session to prepare for the student's quiz on Friday. In the session, we covered dilations and transformations. We tackled the topic in 2 ways--from formula to graphic, and from graphic to formula. The material that was left for her to study was extra worksheets from the week. We're looking forward to good news on her quiz score--the 1st of the semester!"

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"I helped the student prepare for his Statistics test. We went over three different review sheets covering types of graphs and presentation of data, vocabulary, and practice problems. We worked on coming up with some helpful ways to remember information and definitions and practiced simplifying formulas in a way that he can understand and easily remember on his test. He seemed to know the information and did very well on his review problems. "

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"The student and I covered several washer method practice problems. He has become very proficient with this type of problem and was cruising through the examples. We then covered the specifics of shell method and how it can be used to find the same information as washer and disk method, only faster depending on the functions in question. He was comfortable with the concepts behind shell method after only one example. "

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"We went over her homework with involved working with polygons and their apothem, central angle, perimeter, and area. Some of the work involved trigonometry. I hope that she now better understands it after I helped her work through it. "

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"We worked on sentence structure using simple sentences and correct verb forms, including helping verbs. We covered similes and how they compare aspects of meaning. We began simple analogies to aid in logical categorization skills. Homework was given in the form of a written assignment. "

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