My last tutoring session with P.J. was great, and proved to me more that he is getting better at processing the English part of performing math word problems. I reviewed some concepts we had gone over the week before, and then played a math word problem game. There were a bunch of different math games on some site called MathPlayground and they had a basketball game that involved word problems! (P.J. really enjoys basketball so I thought this was great) After getting some questions wrong for reading too quickly, I asked again "What part of the sentence gives you information about how to perform the math?". He would then analyze the sentence and choose the correct word that told him some aspect about the math operations necessary to solve the question. I left feeling proud of the work I had done because I can definitely tell that he has gotten better at solve word problems than before we first started.
I had really grown to enjoy our time together so I got him a flashlight Batman pen which he seemed to really enjoy. I will miss him, and I hope that our time together will benefit his studies.
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