February 16, 2010

Date: February 16, 2010
Hours Tutored: 1
Grade Level: 5
Age: 9/10
Gender: M/F

The objective of the session was to introduce the students to the Oral Math Facts program and assess their current familiarity with multiplication tables. Both students were well acquainted with multiplying numbers below 5, and completed those tables quickly, P generally responded more quickly than N and showed more interest overall in the activity. To help the students learn, repetition and verbal correction were used. The environment was somewhat distracting for P; she would often look around the classroom, interested in other students’ activities when working on problems, or she would constantly try to engage me in conversation when waiting to work on a new set of problems. There did not seem to be any relative aspects of multiculturalism.