Jess's semester exam is next week. We worked on some of her review problems.
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75
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75
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Jessica's semester exam is coming up. She needs to do well in order to replace the first test. I expect her to do better than she did on the first test.
Topics on Jess's Test: 1) law of sine and law of cosines; 2) vectors and vector operations (including word problems; 3) decompositions; 4) sequences and series; 5) parametric and rectangular equations
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none
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75
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75
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Jess's teacher realized that she was running out of time to cover the material that will be on the final test before Thanksgiving and rushed through several sections (on very different topics). She isn't feeling confident about this upcoming test.
Jess will be able to: 1) use the law of sines to find sides and angles of triangles; 2) use the law of cosines to find the sides and angles of a triangle; 3) complete operations on vectors; 4) solve problems using vectors
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none
Session Minutes
75
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75
Lesson Comments
Jess got a B on her second test (much better than the first and about 20 points higher than the class average). She still wants better test scores, but she was feeling much better.
Jess's second test is on Friday. We worked on review problems.
Assignment
Study
Session Minutes
75
Minutes Student Attended
75
Lesson Comments
Jess seemed to be better prepared than she was for her last test. She also seemed more calm. She needs to make sure has the unit circle, identities and formulas memorized.
Jessica will be able to: 1) Verify a trig identity; 2) solve trig equations
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none
Session Minutes
75
Minutes Student Attended
75
Lesson Comments
Jessica has a test next week. She is doing ok. To improve her skills with trig identities, she must continue to practice. Also, she must memorize all of the identities because they will not be given on tests and quizes.
Jess will be prepared for her quiz on inverse trig functions and "farmer Fred" (Application) problems. I went over the lessons with her, and we did practice problems.
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none
Session Minutes
75
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75
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Jessica seems to be doing a little better since she started coming to tutoring. She seems to understand the trig for the most part, but is still struggling with this course.
We went over sections 4.1 and 4.2 (radian/degree measure and the unit circle).
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Session Minutes
75
Minutes Student Attended
75
Lesson Comments
Jessica has a quiz tomorrow. She should do well, though she isn't completely certain which material will be tested. She needs to work on learning/memorizing the unit circle.
Jess will be prepared for her test on chapters 1-3.
Assignment
study
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Based on the test review and the fact that the first test covers 3 chapters, Jess has a pretty tough precalc teacher. Jess also says that the teacher moves really fast and gets annoyed when students ask questions. She doesn't feel that the teacher would be accessible for help during office hours based on comments made in class.