Award-Winning Test Prep & Academic Tutoring in Chalco, NE

"The student was a confident student today! She had lots of energy as she explained what she needed to do. First, she chose to finish her homework and she knew her answers were correct. She asked me to help her with one that confused her. It was about decimals and seeing the number in a different way. She had to explain why 26 tenths was more than 2.06, so we discussed what it would look like in decimal form and it seemed to click that 26 tenths were equal to 2.6. Later, she saw a similar problem and was able to complete it correctly. Next, we worked on a daily worksheet which had more decimal work. She did well on most of this page except one part where her teacher wanted her to correct 3 sets of decimals which were out of order. She had to rethink the numbers and place them in increasing or decreasing order. She quickly found her mistakes and moved on! Another question asked her to explain why rounding to the nearest tenth and whole could have the same answer. We talked it through and she gave an excellent response. She just needs to slow down, look at the situation, use what she knows, and she can do the work or write out a great explanation. She has really improved! We moved on to practice fractions because she still needs to see the relationship between fractions and decimals. We had time to compare fractions, order them from least to greatest, and review changing improper fractions to mixed numbers. "

"The student worked on his homework, which covered material about using the second derivative to find concavity and points of inflection. He reports that he isn't fully comfortable with understanding the material conceptually, though from a practical standpoint, he does understand it very well (i.e., he is perfectly capable of solving problems from this material, even if he doesn't fully get why it works)."

"For this session, Student 1 and I worked on a practice test overviewing linear inequalities, as she had a test on it the next day. It was 14 questions long, and it went by relatively quickly and simply without any issues. Student 2 and I worked on 2 dimensional vectors and their dot products, along with finding the normal/orthogonal vectors of each given vector. The few questions she had left were a bit time consuming, but she was able to complete the homework easily, without too many issues. Student 3 worked on angles and other normal polygons that are not triangles. Since he had the majority of his homework already done, we did not have too much to work on, but the questions that he had left were completed quickly. He an excellent job in identifying the issue and tackling the problems correctly."

"Overall, great session today. The student was engaged, and demonstrated crucial skills as I taught them to him, and tested him on along the way. Topics Reviewed: (1) Applications of Pythagorean Theorem to find missing side length for right triangles (2) How to put radical in simplest form, perfect squares method and prime factorization method (3) How to classify triangles as right, acute, or obtuse, given side lengths. I'm seeing progress in his confidence. My main recommendation, as always, is to make sure he's practicing math problems he's receiving in class as often as possible. Practice makes perfect. As always, it was a pleasure tutoring him, and I look forward to our next session."

"The student learned about income, payroll, and sales taxes. We practiced finding the tax amounts for different goods by using the state and government tax percent rates. Then we added the taxes to the price of the goods to get our total cost."

"We covered topics on polynomials. The student grasped the rules of exponents easily. She was a little confused at first in regards to adding and subtracting polynomials, but she got it after doing some practice. Dividing polynomials was a challenge. The concept and process was new to her, so I told her to do more practice problems after our session. She liked how synthetic division made dividing polynomials easier. "

"Today, we covered systems of equations with two variables and graphing the equations. Once I walked the student through obtaining the equations, he was able to solve them. He was enthusiastic about learning the concepts, and that made easier for me to tutor him. I also showed him how to solve systems of equations algebraically and by graphing the functions. "

"We focused on reading comprehension with word problems and double checking the student's work. We also focused on proactively answering questions. She was a very fast learner and quickly applied the material in a well-rounded manner."

"The student continued to work on her review for an upcoming midterm. She worked on the gas laws, PV=nrt, molarity, M1V1=M2V2, stoichiometry, dimensional analysis, finding moles given information about the molarity and volume, and dilution."

"The student benefited from some simplified views and solution methods of problems that had caused him and his class some difficulty. We also started a new topic that has recently been added to the final test that the student is taking in a month. "