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"The student got through 18 problems today. One thing that he has to do is read and understand the problem before deciding on an answer. He is going to read some of the problems that we will be working on Friday."

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"We started today's session with a topic for conversation. The topic was happiness. The student and I discussed what it means for him, and others, to be happy. He then read two passages and answered the questions which followed. We also worked on grammar, which included prepositions. He did some writing about the places of interest a tourist should visit when in Beijing. We will be meeting again on Thursday."

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"I discussed organization issues and strategies with both students. I helped Student H create an organization strategy she thought would be manageable. She and I went over her science homework and she worked on some spelling. Student J and I worked on his algebra homework and reviewed some concepts they addressed in the class earlier in the week."

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"We finished reviewing advanced application of derivatives for an upcoming exam. We reviewed application of the first/second derivative test as well as definitions and purposes. After going through some examples, we then reviewed maximization/minimization problems, making sure he understood how to identify them and solve them. We ended the session going over implicit differentiation and identifying when/how to use it. The student takes the exam on Monday."

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"I met with the student to continue reviewing for his final test on Tuesday. He felt confident about all of the problems except for the ones involving radicals and complicated exponent problems. We went over solving radical expressions, rationalizing the denominator, and converting between radical and exponent form. Once we had finished this portion of the review, he asked to go over the Pythagorean Theorem and the distance formula. We finished the review session by going over the composition of functions. He also reported that he had received a 90% on his last quiz."

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"Prior to our session I worked through the problems on the student's test. It was a mix of Algebra I and some Algebra II. During our session I showed her the work for each question."

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"In my first session with the student, we went over her homework. I helped her with the part she had not yet completed and reviewed the part she had already done, explaining what her errors were and how to correct them. We then reviewed one piece of reading homework. The rest was math. She had trouble with carrying her numbers when adding 3 digit numbers. We will work on this in future sessions. "

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"In this session the student completed his geometry homework, then we reviewed concepts for his chapter 9 test, which is Friday. For the most part he has a good handle on all the concepts of this chapter. We reviewed ratios of similar triangles, which is still a sticking point, and discussed how to create a valid ratio by making sure that each component of the similar triangles is accurately matched; i.e., hypotenuse to hypotenuse, adjacent leg to adjacent leg, and so on. This is not as easy as it seems, as they often rotate and flip one of the triangles to make it more difficult to spot. We also clarified calculating a geometric mean as opposed to a simple average. With a bit more study, we are both confident that he will do well on Friday's test. He also reported that he got an 89% on his last quiz, which indicates a good command of the subject matter. "

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"Today we went over definite integrals in more detail along with the student completing his assigned homework. He was still struggling some with integrating ln and e functions, but said he will study those more in depth before his upcoming quiz on Friday. "

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"This time we went over anti-derivatives of polynomial functions. We studied different cases where the functions result was a natural logarithm, or just another polynomial function plus C. The whole session was about these integrals, since the work in these problems is more involved."

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"The student and I reviewed her paper on schizophrenia and worked on a review of the psychology presentation. We worked on the structure of a review as well as a formal paper, flow, grammar, paraphrasing, and homophones. I also reviewed the PowerPoint she had done and we worked on clarifications and corrections. "

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