March 9, 2010

Date: March 9, 2010
Hours Tutored: 1.25
Grade Level: 5
Age: 9/10
Gender: M/F

The goal of this session was to assess the students’ confidence with different difficulties. This session was also used to introduce the division Oral Math Facts Program. P was initially very active in her participation and she chose a variety of multiplication sections/pages, but all of them were below her level. P also chose a variety of division problems and explained their relation to multiplication problems to me. Near the end of her session, however, she became increasingly distracted and less interested in the program. N declined the offer to try the division Oral Math Facts Program. When given the choice of which problems to work on, N also chose to work only on pages below his level. To help the students learn, verbal correction and a measure of free choice were used; both students chose to say only the answer when offered. The session was inside the classroom, which was particularly distracting during this session, due to noise and misbehavior of other students. None of the aspects of multiculturalism were particularly relevant to this session.