In October, the Greater Princeton Branch of AYLUS (GPA) students continued their Education Help Program. Although schools are restarting, some middle school students are still looking for tutoring classes to improve their academic skills in classes like math, science, or reading. Because of this, GPA is holding tutoring opportunities in core subjects.
GPA member Annie Miao (10/16, 2 hrs) tutored her students in math: In this week’s tutoring session, Annie finished going over the distributive property with her tutee and the different ways to use it. She also introduced how to factor expressions through problems with factorable monomials.
GPA members Karen Yang (10/17, 2 hrs), Kevin Song (10/17, 3 hrs) tutored their students in math: This week we began with a warm up question about fourth degree quadratics and multiplying extensive quadratics and combining them. We then asked students to find values of k that would make an equation no solution for x. After that, we factored extensively and did more substitution problems. We then did more application problems and will see everyone next week!
GPA member Karen Yang (10/17) also volunteered at Morven: I gave a tour about Morven’s history and the 11 families that lived there from 11-2pm today. I walked the visitors through 6 galleries that talked about Richard Stockton, the signer of the Declaration of Independence, his son Richard Stockton, his son, his grandson, Robert F Stockton, Helen Stockton, Robert Wood Johnson Jr., and the various governors who lived at Morven; these were all owners of Morven and all had a unique story and tenure at Morven. I was also able to give 1 tour today, to a total of 2 people and trained two other docents to be and answered their questions too!
GPA member Catherine tutored her student in math and reading: I tutored my student in math (10/18) from 3:00 – 6:00 pm. This week, we focused on using the Euclidean Algorithm to find the GCF of two numbers and problems involving factorials. With problems involving factorials, we looked for the largest power of certain numbers that would be a factor of the factorial. We then elaborated on the concept and used it to find how many trailing zeroes a factorial had. I tutored another student in reading from 8:00 – 9:00 pm on Sunday (10/17). I read a picture book with them about different pets. We then discussed its contents and illustrations and talked about what we considered to be a “perfect pet”. Finally, I tutored a student in math from 7:00 – 9:00 pm on Saturday (10/16). We worked on multiplication problems, especially with one digit numbers multiplied with a larger, multi digit value. We started with a two digit number and worked on problems of increasing difficulty until we had four digit values.
GPA member Yan Fischer (10/17, 2 hrs) tutored his student in math.
The program allows GPA members to provide reading, writing, speaking, communication, and more to their students across the country.
