March 15, 2010

Date: March 15, 2010
Hours Tutored: 1
Grade Level: 5
Age: 9/10
Gender: M/F

The goal of this session was to continue the Oral Math Facts program. For this session, P was much slower and more forgetful than usual. In an attempt to reinforce the problems she most often missed, I orally quizzed her on a considerable amount of problems, which helped her response time and accuracy considerably. I also quizzed N orally to see how if it helped his accuracy or time (I do not think it had any affect on any part of his ability). P was much more enthusiastic when being asked questions than when having to read them. Neither student liked having to read the problems and both of them informed me more than once on previous sessions that reading the problems made it harder to answer correctly and quickly. To help P learn in particular, I asked questions orally and corrected both students orally when they answered incorrectly. The environment was not any more distracting than usual. None of the aspects of multiculturalism seemed to affect this tutoring session.