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"In this session, the student and I began working on a new chapter, the slope-intercept form, by going through homework assignments on his tablet. I began with a general introduction about the slope-intercept form by writing out the formula and explaining each variable. I then taught him that once the form was memorized, the rest of the work involved was essentially the identification of the slope and y-intercept. We covered four assignments today. These assignments were 1) identifying the slope and y-intercept given the equation, 2) writing a formula given a graph, 3) creating a graph given a formula, and 4) writing an equation given a word problem. Because these sections were closely related, I usually worked through the first few problems of each section with him to demonstrate how it was related to my first explanation. Afterwards he was comfortable working through the rest of the assignment on his own. In order to help him become more self-sufficient, I also taught him multiple ways of checking his own work that he used and discussed with me."

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"We went over more quadratic topics, as the student has an online quiz to take on Tuesday and an in-class test on Wednesday. He showed a continued understanding of the concepts. I suggested studying and practicing more with the discriminant, and to check his calculations and solutions."

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"The student did not seem reluctant at working with a tutor as his parents had anticipated, but he seemed unaware of his preparation gaps. I think that he will need some intensive tutoring in the future to cope with his demanding tasks at school and the upcoming tests, and this will be all worth it, since he learns quickly. My approach has been to go straight to the root cause of problems he has with exercises, and to start from the basics in a more intuitive and practical way, giving for example a monetary meaning to the variables of an equation. This may seem a bit time consuming now, but I think the student is very responsive to it, and he will benefit from it in few months or even weeks. "

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"The student worked on her homework regarding interior and exterior angles. She has gained more confidence and therefore has increased her speed in solving problems. There was one particular problem that took a while but once she had her lightbulb moment, it took about 30 seconds to solve. It was very meaningful for her to come to that realization because it forces her to find more efficient ways of thinking and trains her to learn a thought process for taking quizzes and tests."

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"We began the session with some small talk and then got into the core of our time. The student had some science HW to complete, so I gave him time to finish it. After about 15 minutes, he was done with it and decided to tackle math. His homework was to find the area of a variety of shapes and then also manipulate equations to solve for a specific variable. For example, he was asked to solve the equation for y: 2x + y = -9. He was then given a bit tougher equations to solve as well. We should be meeting back after the Thanksgiving holidays."

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"Student 1 is much better at finding relationships, which helps him with the analogy portion. He needs to go back to the reading passages to search for the answer instead of using his opinion or memorization. Student 2 needs to go over parallel lines and angles. He needs to understand the relationships between analogies so he can pick the right answer choice. We will continue to work in these areas in future sessions."

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"During this session, we continued working on synonyms, sentence completion and reading comprehension. We reviewed his reading comprehension homework, because it was something that could help him with the ISEE. We went over tips for his writing, including tips that will help him with the synonyms and words he isn't sure of, as well as when completing his sentences."

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"The student and I focused on spelling, reading comprehension, grammar, and math. He has seen much improvement in his reading comprehension. I initially thought that his improvement in comprehension was only for reading stories. I decided to give him some informational readings to see if he could understand them. He did well with understanding the informational reading. He only missed about 2 of 10 questions and was even able to skim and find the answers to the questions he couldn't remember. We are also working on parts of speech. In math, we did a computation exercise on the computer. "

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"I checked over the student's homework. After this, I had him do two pages in his book. We went over place value, multiplication, division, carrying, borrowing, word problems, and money. He struggled a bit with doing multiplication by writing numbers in expanded form, but did a good job overall. We played a quick chess game for about the last five minutes of the session."

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"We continued to work on the simple past and past continuous. For the most part the student is grasping the concepts. We worked on a new story, and it was impressive how well she has progressed in the reading skill. I left her an assignment for our Thursday session. "

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"We reviewed tens strategy and she understands it a lot better now. I also worked on how to avoid using fingers to do basic math, or how to see a problem from a different perspective in order to solve it in her head. She did great! "

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"Today the student and I reviewed for his math exam tomorrow. We went over parallel lines and slopes and perpendicular lines and their slope. Additionally, we went over graphing lines and writing lines in y=mx+b format. The student needs to pay closer attention to the positive and negative signs of numbers and the x and y ordinates. We completed the tutoring session with science review questions. "

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