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"The student had just taken her math test. The one big project that she did have due was to memorize and perform a soliloquy from Shakespeare. We practiced the speech she had been assigned and by the end of the session, she had about half of her speech memorized."

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"We worked on lateral area, surface area, and volume. He had no issues with the topic. I just guided him through some of the more difficult review problems. "

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"In this session, I helped the student review for her math exam. I explained and helped her review concepts in data and statistics, charts and graphs. She also worked on practice algebra problems on percent and inequalities. The student did well on statistics problems such as finding mean/median/mode problems as well as quartiles. She understood much better on inequalities problems as well as percent problems. I also helped her review some conceptual questions on geometry and coordinate geometry as well. Overall, our session went well and was productive. "

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"Tonight was my first session with this student. I'm helping her prepare for her upcoming final in this class, which is just one week away! She had been doing well in the class, but has been struggling the past few chapters. Our goal is to maintain a solid B in the class, and to score as high on the final as possible! During our session tonight, we did an overview of a lot of the topics covered in precalculus. She had forgotten some of the material, but was able to pick it up again quickly. There were some problem areas, however, that I found we definitely need more intensive work in. I'm glad that she seems motivated to put in the required work! "

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"The student and I worked on algebra during our session. We focused on problems relating to determining slope and y-intercept from an equation. We also reviewed her most recent test, which she did very well on. Most of her mistakes involved the addition and subtraction of negative numbers which we went over again during the session. She also made some mistakes graphing the equations on her test but we went over them and she seemed much more confident after we had gone over that topic again. Overall, great session!"

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"We worked on some problem-solving methodology and then moved on to some example problems. The student was able to solve most parts of most problems but occasionally missed the similarities among related problems. At the end of the session I asked her if she found the session useful and she shared with me that she understood the problems but had difficulty articulating the solutions. I asked her to think about how I might help her with this problem before our next session."

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"Strong reading work from the student in this session. He is rapidly improving in his ability to simplify the key ideas in a given question and find text to support his answer choice. Like many students, he just needs to allow himself a bit more time when choosing some answers to make sure he doesn't jump into the traps ACT lays out. The more he can become comfortable with the set routine of rephrasing the question, targeting an answer, and eliminating the incorrect choices systematically, the more points he will gain."

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"We went over trig identities and their application in solving equations. The student was already adept in solving for the angle, but she had trouble using the basic identities to simplify equations. I showed her what identities to keep on hand when solving and how to spot where to use them. We went over a couple of examples so that she could see the concepts in action. By the end of the session, she was able to answer easy to intermediate problems with no assistance."

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"We finished the fill-in-the-blank portion of the student's final. The problems were from the earlier sections of this unit, dealing with linear programming and word problems, graphing trig functions, matrices and determinants, and solving systems of linear inequalities. She was familiar with the questions and was able to solve the questions after given some direction. She was also confident with figuring out the equation of a sin/cos/tan graph. She did well and stay focused through the 51 questions!"

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"Today was the student and I's first session! We spent some time getting to know each other, and then she worked on her English homework. She is very bright, but she does seem to struggle with organizing her thoughts and ideas into coherent answers. The student, her mother and I discussed plans going forward. She has a state science test coming up that we will focus on through workbooks and study guides. We will also review her homework, and look into math workbooks for continued study. "

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"Today I covered factoring, distribution, and simple algebra of polynomials with the student. He is very quiet when it comes to giving me feedback, but from his performance of practice problems we did online, he picked up on the concepts readily. The only concepts he consistently struggled with are sometimes dropping signs or incorrect addition of negative numbers, which we will work on next time. Overall, he did far better today than he did last session, in which we covered mostly word problems. I assigned problem sets for him to do before next session. "

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