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Apr. 25th, 2004 02:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheWhen I was in high school, I tutored several students. Funnily enough, all of my students needed help in math. I never tutored anyone in English.
When you're learning trig, it's difficult to teach someone the fundamentals of fractions. Then again, the sixth-grader I tutored was in serious need of fundamentals. After a few sessions with her, it became obvious that I couldn't teach her fractions until she understood her multiplication tables. If memory serves me right, her parents helped her in that respect, not me. (She should not have been in sixth grade without knowing her multiplication tables! This is what my brain screams to me now.) It took me awhile to get her to understand that one whole equaled 1.
I wonder if she still remembers me, and what impression I might have made on her.
When you're learning trig, it's difficult to teach someone the fundamentals of fractions. Then again, the sixth-grader I tutored was in serious need of fundamentals. After a few sessions with her, it became obvious that I couldn't teach her fractions until she understood her multiplication tables. If memory serves me right, her parents helped her in that respect, not me. (She should not have been in sixth grade without knowing her multiplication tables! This is what my brain screams to me now.) It took me awhile to get her to understand that one whole equaled 1.
I wonder if she still remembers me, and what impression I might have made on her.