Gavin Byrd TS#5

For my third time tutoring with P.J., I wanted to focus more on how to attack math word problems. So as we went over his past homework and other word problems, I had him write down what the question was asking for us to solve for. I could tell that five or six problems, he was starting to find that tedious, but I still found it necessary. I also had him explain to me what the different relationships stated in the problem were. He definitely found this more difficult. I think not necessarily because he couldn't recognize them in his head, but because he was having trouble vocalizing the ideas in his head. I am not too surprised by this because that it is a pretty high level of critical thinking to express the different aspects of a word problem. But I could tell he was starting to gather how to approach word problems better. This made me excited as looked forward to our next tutoring session.