Into 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 (10/2, 2 hrs) tutored her students in math: This week, Annie continued teaching her tutee about the distributive property and how to use it to expand binomials. They also started discussing the perfect square trinomials and the difference of squares.
GPA members (10/3) Karen Yang, Kevin Song (3 hrs), and Kathy Yang tutored their students in math: This week we began with a warm up question about factoring and distributing exponents. We then discussed these problems and students shared how they did the problems too. We then decided to teach sum and products of roots and began with exploration problems and then more practice problems. After that, we played an interactive game with sum and products of roots; if students got them correct, they got a point. We’ll be having our next class next week! In addition, Karen Yang (2 hrs) was also able to give 3 tours today at Morven, to a total of 11 people!
GPA member Catherine Feng (10/4) tutored her students: I tutored my student in math today from 3:00 – 6:00 pm. This week, we focused on Greatest Common Factors (GCF) and Least Common Multiples (LCM) again. We worked on GCF-LCM webs, piecing together values through multiple rounds of performing and reversing GCF and LCM. I tutored another student in reading from 8:00 – 9:00 pm today. I read two picture books with them about quarantine and a fable about a dragon. We then discussed their contents and illustrations.
GPA member Yan Fischer (10/3, 2 hrs) tutored his student in math. GPA member Sophia Song tutored her student in Algebra II.
The program allows GPA members to provide reading, writing, speaking, communication, and more to their students across the country.
