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"The student and I focused on finding volume by integration using cylindrical shells. He felt successful on his quiz on discs and washers on Wednesday, and today was his last tutoring session before his quiz on shells. We reviewed homework problems. I stressed the importance of visualizing the 3-D figure and the cylinders and figuring out the axis of integration before even starting the problem. After several problems, we moved onto a problem that required him to use washers, discs, and shells to find the volume of the same region revolved around different axes of revolution."

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"The student and I, in this session, reviewed ratios word problems. She was doing much better towards the end of our time together in terms of her understanding of the material. Her recent improved math scores are evidence that her hard work during sessions is paying off! In this session, she was very focused. I also noticed that she has more confidence with word problems. She also utilizes a strategy I taught her to isolate information and what the question is asking her, to make the word problem less overwhelming. Great job!"

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"We went over exponential growth and decay problems. I had the student work some problems to find the equation of the growth of decay. We went on to review direct and inverse proportionality. These are both topics that his class is currently covering. After working the growth and decay problems he had a fairly good grasp of the subject."

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"First, the student and I organized his papers. Then, we talked a bit about his grades this quarter, and what he thinks about them. After that, he did some work on some government homework on the Supreme Court that we're hoping will bring his third quarter grade up."

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"The student and I worked on fractions today, specifically on the addition and subtraction of fractions with unlike denominators, converting mixed numbers to improper fractions and vice versa, and multiplying fractions. This lesson was heavily conceptual: I had her create proofs for 1/3 x 1/2 and 1/4 + 1/2, and similar problems. She initially struggled with these proofs, but by the end of the session, she was able to explain exactly why multiplication of fractions works the way it does. She also struggles with basic arithmetic, so she and I have started a multiplication competition. Each session, I will come with a different set of multiplication problems. We will each do as many problems as we can in 1 minute and I will record her progress. The goal is for her to eventually finish more problems than I can in one minute, after which she will receive a prize. Her assignment for next week is to practice her multiplication facts. "

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"Today we cleaned up some concepts from Ch 14 that were a bit shaky and worked on speed during a full-length math test. The student greatly improved his speed, and his full-length test score was on pace to meet his target score. I left some practice tests and a problem set for him before his final tune-up on Wednesday."

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"During this session we reviewed the practice test the student worked on. I noticed he did not complete the verbal section again, so I tried to dedicate much of our session to practice with analogies. I explained the different types of analogies that he will see on the test, and then provided examples and we discussed the reason for each answer. This seemed to work well. I also reviewed strategies for the writing section. He showed significant improvement in accuracy for the math and reading sections. I was very excited by this and hope that this is reflected in his actual test scores. I hope the test went well and feel free to reach out to me with any questions or if he needs additional academic support."

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"When I arrived the student's mother told me that the student does not understand some concepts. The concepts were regarding logarithms, since it is the first time he is studying them he is not used to how they work. We went through step by step defining log in general, then base 10 and base e, some basic properties, and how log is the inverse function of exponential functions. Next, we did some practice from the class materials. He successfully solved the problems, and I clarified his doubts on it. He still had to do his homework consisting of practice exercises from the book. I suggested that he could do more exercises from the book since there are plenty available regarding this topic. Overall the win from this session is that he is confident in solving these kinds of problems and he is ready for the next topic."

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"This was our initial meeting. The student's class is currently working with graphing polynomials. He tried to complete the homework he had for the week, but it is clear that we will need to fill in the gaps from last year in order to catch up. Today, I mostly spent time identifying where we are starting from. The next time we meet I will be bringing materials from pre-algebra and algebra that he is struggling with, and we'll start from the beginning and get all the gaps filled in."

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"The student and I continued revising and editing her cultural ethnography paper. A Google Doc has been created which allows for editing outside the session. We focused on the differences between dating in the 1960's and the 21st century. Some of our session was devoted to organizing paragraphs and constructing sentences based on her interview with her grandmother."

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"In today's session, the student and I worked on an AP exam question packet. This was a way to practice for the upcoming exam he will be taking. We started with a few he had already worked through on his own, so he was able to ask questions as he tried them a second time. This packet had topics that covered the derivative, integration, using the derivative to analyze a curve, solving differential equations, and using sums to estimate the area under the curve. This allowed us to cover a wide range of material, so he was able to recall a lot of different topics and review several different ideas. He mainly asked conceptual questions and some algebraic questions. For the most part, he had a plan of attack for each problem and executed quite well. We spoke about key words to use in solutions to demonstrate understanding and using all the information given in a problem. "

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