December 17th

Yifan is struggling with the idea of writing the question out as an equation with variables.  She is trying to memorize the order of the operations we do, instead of striving for a deeper understanding of replacing the words in the question with variables in an equation, so we went over a couple of her homework questions and talked about defining variables first, or using the unit strategy.  We also reviewed the guess and check strategy. 

December 13th

We worked on questions with three variables, and practiced substituting variables for their equalities to solve for a single variable. For homework, Yifan agreed to do questions 10, 11,and 12 (all questions we have solved once in class).  

December 6th

We redid question 6 using a "guess and check" method that avoids some of the heavy algebra from the first solution , and which Yifan prefers.  We worked on a few others

For homework, Yifan should continue with questions 10-14, and keep track of the questions she felt successful with, vs, the ones she struggled with, and we will continue to work through them. 

November 29th--homework--reproduce the solutions we did together for questions 2-6 pages 12 and 13

November 22nd--

November 15th, 

November 12th, 2021