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"Our first session went well today. When describing herself and her attitude towards math, the student told me that she recently took the ACT and math was her weakest subject. She said that she has trouble figuring out the steps needed to solve a problem, even if she feels she understands the concept and what the problem is asking. We decided that we will mostly spend our sessions reviewing material that she is working on during her own time. Today we started just with some problems from the website, mostly problems regarding proportionality and scaling. By the end of three problems she was doing great. We also reviewed some basic percentage arithmetic and fraction-decimal conversion, which she did great with as well. We finished with a word problem that asked us to come up with an equation for the scenario described. With all the problems we did, the student had great instincts to immediately write down necessary information and define variables. I got the sense that she sometimes over-thinks things a little bit, so in future session we will work on building her confidence by doing lots of practice problems. I think doing lots of practice will also help her become quicker with solving problems, and not hesitant about what steps to take. We talked a little about visualizing problems in an effective way, and I look forward to working on that more in the future with this student. "

"This afternoon we did some math review (plotting points on a graph; adding and subtracting mixed numbers) and spent some time planning his Apollo project--he mapped out how he wanted to arrange his display board, and we talked a bit about the Greek words that he wants to incorporate into the poster."