Back in October I met P.J., a Korean American fifth grader. I have been working with him on word problems in math. I would be lying if I said I didn't struggle for the first few minutes because I was a bit nervous. After some exchanges of getting to know one another, we started to go over some of his past homework problems. His math ability is not a problem, but his recognizing how to relate ideas in a word question is more challenging for him.
After re-reading the questions he was able to recognize ideas and math functions he didn't gather before. When I asked "That's great! What about the problem made you recognize that?" He replied "I don't know that's just how it is". This made me realize that these tutoring sessions were going to show him how some phrases in word problems can show what math functions to use.
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