Gavin Byrd TS#9

My fifth tutoring session with P.J. was the best one yet. We did what we usually do in the beginning which is going over the homework problems he had missed. But then we did an activity worksheet that I had made. In all of the time that I had been tutoring P.J., I had been having trouble seeing the relationships between phrases in the question and math functions. So I made a sheet that had four boxes labeled with one math function in each (Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division). Then I made a word bank of different phrases that are correlated with each function. He said that he found it pretty easy but helpful at the same time. I decided then that the rest of the sessions were going to focus more now on how to lay a road-map out for solving word problems. This I think is going to be more difficult.