Award-Winning Test Prep & Academic Tutoring in Sand Springs, OK

"Today, before our session, I learned that the student has been placed in a small group for Math and study skills for the remainder of this year and all of next year. This program will help catch him up in Math in preparation for high school. He will also receive individualized homework help in study skills (assuring he gets his homework done every day during school and providing him any necessary help) and additional allowances and help during tests. I think this a great move. His grades have been improving throughout this whole semester. Since we didn't have any Math to work on today (the program has started back from where we've been, and he said it's pretty easy right now) we talked about organization and study skills. He will still be in regular classes for the rest of school and will be starting science again. All of these classes will be worked on in small group study skills though. We wrote out a list of supplies he would find helpful to use for organization, such as a multiple-pocket folder and labels to identify where each class's work should go. We discussed ways to stay organized, such as separating each class's work, labeling everything with a name and subject for easy sorting, and going through his things every night to make sure everything is in order for the next day of classes. We also discussed how to study for tests. We reviewed what he has been doing (re-reading and rewriting notes to review, having a friend quiz him) and thought up new strategies. These included looking in homework/textbooks/study guides for additional practice problems and making up new problems in the case of math, and teaching someone else about concepts for classes like science or social studies. Lastly, I wanted to show the student what I think is one of the best online sources for Math practice. I showed him how the website works; there are an incredible amount of explanatory videos for every Math topic you can think of. He seemed very interested in the website, so we took the last portion of our session to set up a profile for him so he can access everything right away. I encouraged him to have his parents look at the website with him so they can be familiar with it as well. There is also an option "For Parents" that I haven't explored myself, but I think it would be worth looking at."

"Today we covered some math problems from the 2nd grade that the student should have known. They ranged from 3-digit multiplication, word problems with addition, subtraction, and multiplication, money and time problems. We then went into 4 digit subtraction that involved borrowing and different types of multiplication problems. He did a great job with 2 digits by 1 digit. We will continue work on 3 digit by 1 digit and refreshing on multiplication. Next time we will continue work with multiplication and start with division. "

"We worked on the student's online course covering matrix addition and subtraction and Cramer's Rule."

"Today we went over some of the problems due tomorrow. The student seemed to be struggling with the asymptote concept. She seemed a little panicky in our session today due to her test being Friday. She has put a lot of work in and I look forward to another study session with her tonight."

"During today's session, the student and studied for his midterm again. We began by going over the problems that he had trouble with from Unit 1. He still had some trouble with remembering how to do some of these problems, so we will go over them next time as well. Next, we began reviewing the material from Unit 2. I assigned him some problems from the unit study guide, but he had a very hard time remembering how to do the problems. We only got through 1 page of the 4-page study guide today so we decided to continue next time."

"We worked on science and a little math. Then, we went over the subject that the student chose for her project. I helped her come up with things she will want to search for while she's coming up with ideas for her essay. "

"Today, the student and I worked on using properties of exponents, product of powers, power of power, power of product, negative exponent, zero exponent, quotient of powers, and power of a quotient. He worked over 25 problems and revised graphing rational expressions identifying x-intercept, y-intercept, vertical and horizontal asymptotes, slant of the slope, and holes."

"During this session, I shifted gears to help the student with some math and science. It has been some time since we've had the luxury of practicing writing and reading comprehension skills. While he does good work when we're together, I am constantly reminding and motivating him when I'm not around to get his work done. I am trying to meet with him more often to provide the additional support he needs. It's not that the work is too challenging for him. Fixing this larger mentality is at the top of my list, and while I never know what a particular session might have us work on, addressing this issue will always be part of it. "