Jan. 24

Took up homework, and continued to work through the word problems. Homework is #8-15 in the word problems.   Some of these we have done in class, but it will be useful to know if she can reproduce the solutions on her own, especially #10--the guess and check question. 

Jan. 21

Started word problems, and took up a couple of the questions from the homework that Yifan had trouble with. 

Jan. 17

continued to work through logical patterns and "shortcuts" to multiple digit multiplication and division. 

January 14th--worked on mental math strategies of splitting a 2 digit number into tens and ones and multiplying them separately, or rounding up a 2 digit number and then subtracting the groups that were rounded up. 

Yifan is doing a great job with the multi digit multiplication and division.  I think the best use of her time will be to move through the calculations quickly, and spend more time on the word problems.