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"The student and I reviewed exponent rules from our last session and he completed his homework in preparation for his quiz this week. He was able to verbalize each step in the problems as we worked through application of area, perimeter, volume, and lateral surface areas for triangles, trapezoids, rectangles, and cylinders using expressions with exponents. We reviewed the exponent rules for addition, multiplication, and division, as well as order of operations We also found missing dimensions using table data and applied the d = r x t formula to problems with exponents. He seemed to have a good understanding of the problems we reviewed and asked several questions. I suggested that he check with his teacher about a couple of problems she provided answers for during class. "

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"The student has her exponential and logarithms test on Wednesday. She had two review assignments that she wanted to work through tonight. Solving logarithms and exponential equations, simplifying expressions, condensing and expanding logarithms are some of the concepts she had been assigned. She did great with all of these. I did not provide much assistance through those problems. The only concept she had an issue with was graphing logarithms. However, she remembered that she had to change that function into an exponential one and make an x-y table in order to graph. Otherwise, she felt very confident for her test on Wednesday."

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"We went over a couple of the student's homework assignments; one science sheet and two math worksheets. The student answered the questions to the science assignment. For math, we went over transforming fractions to percents and percents to fractions. On one sheet, we went over story problems. He was able to figure those out pretty easily. I quizzed him on percents and he knew how they should be written as a fraction. With more practice, he will have it down! "

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"I really enjoyed working with the student. We discussed changes in the new PSAT and strategies for reading comprehension. We went over several types of PSAT questions present in the reading comprehension and things to look over. Her decision making processes were very strong, and we will continue to practice these questions to strengthen her problem solving with passages that are "less straightforward." I have asked her to complete one practice reading section, review a grammar sheet, and check out vocab flashcards before our next session on Thursday. I will email her all resources reviewed and homework materials by this evening. "

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"The student has an exam tomorrow covering congruent triangles and parallelograms. We completed the review given to her by her teacher and then focused on parallelograms, which is new material. We paid special attention to proofs. She has a good grasp of the material and should do well on the exam. I encouraged her to make sure she spends some time this evening committing the new theorems regarding parallelograms to memory."

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"Today, we reviewed some of the student's Chapter 2 work that she began in class. This included: truth tables, conjunction/disjunction, and evaluating statements for truth. Next, we reviewed her Chapter 1 material: distance formula, solving for missing lengths and angles, calculating surface area and volume, and simplifying radicals. She seems to be making steady progress on this material from the previous week. I would recommend she review the midpoint and distance formulas once again, as it is easy to mix up +/- symbols in each equation. I will email additional practice problems for her to look over before our next meeting. "

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"Today's session with this student went really well. We spent our time talking about his hydraulics class and working with the equations and stoichiometry. His biggest struggle is with stoichiometry. When he doesn't have to do any unit conversions then he can easily do the problem. Hopefully with this work he will do a lot better. He has a great attitude like always. I left him with a bunch of stoichiometry problems so that he could practice and improve his skill. I feel that he is making a marked improvement in this area."

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"Today we worked on a review worksheet for sections 8.4 and 8.5, and the assigned homework from the book for section 8.6. The worksheet had a mixture of 55 problems about logarithms: evaluation, solving, properties, changing bases, rewriting as an exponential expression, etc. The student did fairly well on this worksheet. There were a few challenging exercises; however, we worked through them and he seems to understand the material well. I commended him on his comprehension and logarithmic computation ability. The book assignment consisted of 25 exercises of which one third focused on solving logarithmic problems, and the rest was a review of the chapter. He struggled a bit with this new concept, but again, after further explanation and practice, he was able to do very well on the remaining problems. His test is next week, and we will be meeting Saturday to prepare him for it."

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"We did a final review of solving for polynomials in various forms, mostly regarding factoring and canceling. The student seemed more confident with the material than in the last session and seems well prepared for her test Tuesday. I left her with 3 additional challenge problems that involve everything she had learned so far, along with their worked solutions."

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"We reviewed a previous homework assignment to strengthen the student's algebraic skill set. I taught him a more organized approach to exponents that he finds very useful, and that makes the problems less confusing. We also went over note-taking methods and he found where he was weak. He now knows he needs to write out more thorough examples to look back over when he's struggling with his homework. "

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"The student and I multiplied fractions; he is very methodical with his math work and did a great job! The only thing he needed help on was knowing when to reduce numbers, but he usually got that right on his own. We went over his spelling test, adding -ion to the end of words. He did well on that too. Finally, we read two books about different animals and he did a great job at interacting with the book, comprehending what he was reading, and then applying what he had learned to questions I asked him. "

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