Teaching Writing: Two Recent Tutoring Sessions
Recently, I helped an eighth-grade student with an English paper. (We work mostly on math, but work also on grammar, writing, and whatever else comes up.) The paper was a short fictional story. We had...
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Someone recently asked what a zero exponent would mean in the real world. Here is my basic response. The important method of research is to ask and answer questions, and the important questions to ask...
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A student I tutor received a 94 on her algebra 2 midterm at one of the top private schools in Houston. Her first ever A in a math final/midterm. Congrats! Partly my help — but partly her hard work and...
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A student I tutor made a 96 on his recent algebra 2 test; he goes to a good private school. Another student, at a public school, made an 86 on her recent algebra 1 test and a 91 on her biology test; I...
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A student earned a 95 on an algebra 2 test (on some conic sections) — that’s good, for her public school teacher is hard! Some of the work the teacher gives these students I have not seen before....
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