Today Ben and I met on Teams. We had difficulty getting started, but we ended up being productive. Ben was in a great mood and willing to work. He had a sense of humor while he was working and we rolled with it. I asked Ben a lot of WHY questions to get him to think about the reasoning behind the properties we're using. I showed Ben the problem we worked on yesterday and asked him to explain it to me. He said he understood it but couldn't explain it. So I explained it to him with a visual aid to support, WHY we add exponents when we are multiplying them.