The fourth tutoring session with P.J. was good! We went over more of his homework problems that he had missed. This time there seemed to be a few more problems with knowing the road map for solving the problem. We were re-read the questions and he would say "Oh! You do this...". But he wasn't correct. I recognized that he was reading through the question too fast, and wasn't recognizing all that the information was saying in the question.
Knowing that he was getting frustrated the session before with tying relationships of phrases and math functions together, I had to re-introduce the topic in a different light. So I said (in my coolest friend/non-teacher voice possible) "Dude, the question will show you how to get the answer!". He seemed to be more intrigued by this, so I began to explain again that the problem delivers all the relationships and functions needed to know to solve the problem. "Your math knowledge is good enough for you to have the problem essentially show you the road-map to solving the problem" I said. He seemed to be encouraged, which made me feel like I was becoming more of a better tutor.
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