Diego TS#6

3 October

This tutoring session was broken down to 45 minutes of reviewing and redoing PJ's homework and 15 minutes of the game I had promised him.

First we began with a talk of how he keeps forgetting to put units on his word problems. If the problem is asking, for example, how much "Liam saves every week on his allowance" he'll put 180 and not $180. Units are very important in math because numbers by themselves don't mean anything sometimes. I showed him a homework assignment my professor graded from 3 years ago in a class called Engineering Mechanics. I received a 68% and the reason was because I didn't include my units of pounds per square inch or newtons or kilopounds. All my tabulations and calculations were 100% correct but because I didn't put those units I got several points deducted. And I clearly remember he wrote "168.9 what" next to one of my answers.

So now if he ever answers a question with a number I'll repeat the number and say "180 what."

When we finished reviewing his homework assignment, I showed him the rules to a probability game. I asked him to read and explain the rules to me. That took about 5-6 minutes because it was a game with a lot of restrictions. Once he was able to explain the page of rules to me completely, we played it and it was a game that tested his mental math and probability judgements. We were very competitive and went over our allotted time but he did have fun playing it.