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"The student and I reviewed what we went over last week. We reviewed her vocabulary words and her research paper notes and information. We will be meeting next Wednesday. "

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"We worked on adding and subtracting mixed numbers. I came up with a way for him to properly focus that I think will work for him. It certainly worked tonight. He now crosses out numbers he is not using. I left a couple of worksheets for him to use and we will go over them next week."

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"For our first meeting I focused on seeing how well the student was able to read out loud, tell time and work out math word problems. For reading, I discovered that she often adds syllables, and even though she does a good job sounding out the letters in a word she has trouble putting them together to finally understand the meaning of what she's reading. I've decided that we are going to focus on "chunking" parts of a word so that she will begin to memorize common chunks so that she won't have to sound out every syllable. For telling time, she understands the short hand but has trouble with the long hand. We will also be working on mental math shortcuts so that she isn't so reliant on counting with her fingers. Lastly, we will be working on more math word problems so that she will begin to understand how to glean important information from the problem so that she will be able to solve it. "

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"The student had a few things for homework. He understands word problems very well; he benefits from having great reading comprehension. After the homework, we reviewed a lot of multiplication and division facts. I tried to get him to see the patterns, as he does between addition and subtraction. He had some trouble going in certain directions in a multiplication problem (4 x 4 = 20 is easy, but 4 time ? = 20 is difficult). This slows him down on division problems. The more we do, the more he will memorize them. He will also become comfortable with the form of the problems, as well as certain mental math tricks that help him on the ones that are his least favorite. "

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"We worked through asymptotic functions, getting into sloped asymptotes, as well as sketching functions and understanding discontinuities and real world applications of functions. I think the student is starting to retain more."

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"We prepared for the student's quiz on division of polynomials and the theorems that accompany them. He knows the methods extremely well, so I gave him some challenge problems that dealt with types polynomials not listed on his review sheet. We also discussed the remainder theorem at the factor theorem at length so that he had a solid understanding of their significance. We finished the session with some chemistry and discussed wave mechanics with a brief introduction to quantum mechanics."

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"The student is learning decimal multiplication, which she really seems to understand. She's still having issues with word problems though. I'm attempting a new strategy to discourage her from guessing by having her explain all her decisions to me, even if she's already done problems like it before. Repetition leads to muscle memory and instincts, both of which I'm hoping to cultivate."

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"We reviewed for the student's upcoming exam. He had some questions about finding intercepts because the equation was presented in an unfamiliar way; he was able to answer the questions after I explained how to rearrange the equation to y=... We also went over plugging values into functions and composite functions. He is very comfortable with inputting values into functions but makes small mistakes with negatives especially when plugging in "x + deltax." We went over limits, which he understands a lot more now, and continuity and determining whether a discontinuity is non/removable. "

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"Today the student and I worked on irony some more since she struggled with it a bit last week. We also read some more Edgar Allen Poe and analyzed the story. We read a short story by Kipling and analyzed the metaphor and characters. Lastly, we worked on Churchill's speech encouraging the soldiers during WWII -- she really enjoyed this exercise and wanted to learn more about the war so we dug into some facts about it a bit. This was a very good session. "

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"The purpose of this session was to have a review regarding the calculation of indeterminate forms limits, then we reviewed the definition of derivatives followed by an analysis of the rules for calculation of derivatives of functions such as constant, polynomial, and exponential. Also, we went over the rule for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of functions. We did many practice exercises from the textbook. The student told me she understood everything and seemed to be more confident in solving these problems. Overall the win from this session is that she had a better understanding of how to calculate indeterminate forms of limits and to use the rules to calculate derivatives of functions."

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"This was a good session with this student. We worked on vectors and vector applications in preparation for her being out of school for a few days. Problem sets went well. Nice work!"

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