As outlined in my email, Ben's assignment included polynomials, which, quite frankly, had me rather taken aback considering his class has not covered quadratics yet. We concentrated on the long division of polynomials, and started trying to understand the concept of the roots of a polynomial. Tough task when there has been no build-up to the topic.

As always, Ben worked so hard, is so eager to understand and always asks the right, relevant questions. It is absolutely not his fault if the questions prove tough to solve, seeing as I don't believe the relevant material has been fully covered in his class (unless there has been a huge mis-match between the assignments Ben has been given and the actual material covered in the classes themselves... which would make no sense).