Award-Winning Test Prep & Academic Tutoring in Watauga, TX

"With both students today, I covered Geometry. They were introduced to the topic in school this week. With the first, the session was spent on understanding her HW on angles and parallel lines. After her time was up, the second student was left with left over HW to finish on her own. She completed her homework and worked on some more advanced 8th grade math, which she finished without a problem. I will be emailing her practice ACT problems to help her prepare for her test in February."

"The student and I spent the first 15 minutes of our session getting to know one another. He shared that he enjoys history the most and language arts the least. He was optimistic and outgoing from the very beginning and was eager to dive into the content. In order to gain more data about his math skills, I asked him to independently work on problems from an assessment math quiz for his grade level. While he worked independently for 20 minutes, I analyzed a sample of his writing. His work was neat and organized and he was able to complete 14 problems in 20 minutes, so his pace of work was efficient. Because fractions are so foundational to other topics (i.e. decimals, ratios, division, percentages, etc.) I decided to extend our conversation in order to get a clearer picture of how much he understands fractions. During our next session, I will begin developing his conceptual understanding of fractions. Looking at his school's textbook, he will need this foundation as he begins work on ratios and proportions (and should have had this foundation during the Integers and rational numbers units). Long term, working with fractions will allow us to work on operations and variables, other foundations of algebraic thinking. While we spent most of our time on math, I did get a chance to share my thoughts about how to approach his writing. He used powerful verbs in his narrative "Earthquakes" and painted a picture for the reader. By mapping out his work before writing, he will be able to stay on topic and develop a cohesive narrative arc or informative claim. Overall, he was a pleasure to work with and I'm very excited to be tutoring him! After the next session I will bring some fraction work to further cement his conceptual understanding, as well as some practice prompts for which he can plan out a written response. I'm looking forward to next week and having a solid hour devoted to math and another hour to work on writing!"

"We covered a new topic today involving statistics and Z-scores. I showed the student how to use both the table in his book as well as the function on his calculator to find the appropriate z-score for a given question. We also talked about how to interpret the score as a probability of an event being greater than or less than the given value. We also talked about Cramer's Rule. I was able to show him that Cramer's Rule was just another way of looking at a problem we had done in a previous session."