Today Ben was very sleepy and did not seem in the mood to work. We started out reviewing the problems he did with the substitute on Friday. He said he didn’t understand them. So I suggested we review them. When I started to go through the first problem he interrupted me, “I already did this.” But then when I asked him how to do them he said he didn’t know. We struggled to get started, so I just put away the paper the substitute had and showed him the material we’ve covered so far. We are in the 5th section of the first chapter. We have only covered about 30% of the material in those sections. At the pace we move, it will be impossible to discuss every example in every section. So I am focusing on the main concepts and building from there. In the textbook, we discussed 1.5 Solving Inequalities. Since Ben is familiar with solving equations, he seemed quickly understood the relation to inequalities. Ben will have to practice remembering when a negative is multiplied/divided the inequality symbol must flip. After this section, we will review and then have a test on the material covered so far.