In December, 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, writing or reading. Because of this, GPA is holding tutoring opportunities in core subjects.
GPA member Catherine Feng tutored her students in math on Monday (12/6) from 3:00 – 6:30 pm. This week, we focused on fractions, working on solving “puzzles” involving fractions. We worked with fraction times tables, multiplying and dividing fractions to fill in blanks in these tables.
GPA member Annie Miao tutored her students in math on Saturday (12/11) for 2 hours.In this week’s tutoring session, Annie and her tutee continued working on factoring trinomials. Annie gave her tutee more practice with completing the square in the beginning of the lesson and then introduced the quadratic formula.
GPA members Karen Yang (12/5, 2 hrs; 12/12, 2 hrs) and Kevin Song (12/5, 3 hrs; 12/12, 3 hrs) tutored their students in math on Sundays: For 12/5/21, we began with a quick review of last week’s problems and then began our discussion on the difference of squares! We walked through the process of breaking down the difference of squares, including what it means, where we can find it within factoring. We then did practice problems identifying it and doing problems which incorporated it in. Lastly, we assigned homework. For 12/12/21, we worked on trigonometry, including breaking down trig, what it was about and introducing the concepts of sin, cos, tan and how they worked in relation to one another. We then did practice problems identifying these values within the unit circle and also demonstrated what they looked like via Desmos.
More GPA members tutored their students in person or online.
The program allows GPA members to provide reading, writing, speaking, communication, and more to their students across the country.
