My sixth tutoring session with P.J. was another difficult one for me. I was having trouble trying to teach about laying out a road-map to solving word problems. I wanted him to take notes on the problem was we read each line, which I think he found to be pretty tedious (I don't blame him). But I knew that it was going to help him. I wanted him to be able to see the ideas and relationships in the word problem from his notes, but it didn't seem to be helping.
I would ask "Okay, so what's the question asking us to solve, and how are going to solve it?". He would just skip to the last line of the problem where the questions usually always ask what to solve for, and then say something that wasn't tying all the ideas of the question together to solve it. When I corrected him by showing how the word problem tells us things contrary to his solution, I saw the frustration on his face. I don't blame him. I feel like this is quite a challenge for him to learn, and me to teach.
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