09/17/09

Today I met with four students for tutoring. Anessa and Bedjina came again as well as one of my sophomores and another 6th grader. Amos, who is in my Algebra II class wanted to come for tutoring since he had a test the following day. We worked on several problems and he seemed to catch on pretty quickly. He has since taken his test and got the second best grade. He only missed three problems. He is currently third in my Algebra II class.

Catiana, the other sixth grader, also came with a few questions. I wasn't expecting her to show up but she literally lives next door to the school so I am sure she just saw us sitting on the picnic table and came over. So, as I was working with Catiana and Amos, I had Bedjina and Anessa quiz each other with flash cards. It worked out well because they both need to increase their speed with multiplication. I had tested Bedjina earlier and noticed that she got most of the multiplication problems correct, however she skipped nearly all of the problems where she needed to multiply by 12 because of time.

I plan on continuing the tutoring with them each Wednesday and Thursday so hopefully this will be enough to bring them up to A students! I'll be sure to write about their progress!