Many students struggle a little bit in math class, just as many people struggle in any endeavor that requires abstract, rigorous thinking. A certain level of struggle is a normal, natural part of education and does not necessarily indicate a need for tutoring. After all, one of the most valuable things students can learn in school is how to overcome difficulty by relying on themselves. However, in certain situations, tutoring can make a tremendous positive difference in a student’s education.
In my opinion, the most clear-cut situation in which a student ought to have tutoring is when that student becomes so frustrated that learning math feels like a hopeless, impossible task. Some symptoms of this situation are regular tears shed during math homework, serious avoidance of anything having to with mathematics, or an ordinarily open, honest child or teen lying about math class or refusing to discuss it. If any of these symptoms are present, the student is clearly in a place where he or she will simply not be able to pull themselves out of their difficulty on their own. A patient, understanding, non-judgmental professional tutor can make all the difference. Of course, math tutoring is not math therapy- when I am working with this type of student, we talk about fractions and variables, not emotions. Nevertheless, a sensitive and thorough tutor can effectively remove the emotional blocks that sometimes prevent success in mathematical success.
Of course, in an ideal world, no one would get to the point where they are utterly petrified by math. There is always a period of time when a student is beginning to flounder but has not yet become chronically discouraged. As I said earlier, I believe strongly that a certain amount of struggle is a valuable part of education. It builds resilience and self-reliance. The trick for parents is to see when their child is crossing the line from wrestling with a subject in a healthy way to losing the match. If a student appears to be putting a good amount of effort into his or her studies, but is nevertheless bringing home anemic test scores and the essential concepts don’t seem to be sticking, tutoring may nip the problem in the bud and prevent the student from beginning a downward spiral.
One situation in which tutoring can be counterproductive is when a bright student is floundering in math class strictly because he or she is not putting in any effort. Has your child’s teacher called you to complain that your child is spending his or her class time launching spitballs? On the one hand, tutoring might actually help with behavior problems if the root cause is that the child is trying to hide a lack of knowledge. On the other hand, if the behavioral difficulties have any other root cause, tutoring can just give the child a further excuse to not pay attention in class. (“I don’t need to listen to the teacher. I’ll just learn this stuff later with my tutor.)
Sometimes tutoring is necessary because finding good math teachers is a difficult task for schools, and they don’t always succeed. On more than one occasion, I’ve had parents call me because, although their child was doing fine in terms of school grades, there was clearly a major problem with the math class. Maybe your child reports that his or her teacher often becomes confused when trying to explain material. Maybe your child has observed that his or her math teacher isn’t fully fluent in English. Maybe you have noticed that math problems your child has copied as part of his or her class notes are often solved incorrectly. You can’t always rescue your child from a bad class, but you can make sure that he or she doesn’t fall behind by hiring a tutor to make up the difference.
The final situation that I will discuss is enrichment for the gifted or simply curious student. It’s wonderful to have a child who wants more math! However, it is important to think enrichment through carefully. Often, the first impulse is just to teach the student more advanced material. That might be fun (and it’s relatively easy for the teacher or tutor) but it’s not a tactic that I endorse. The problem is, if your student gets ahead of his or her class, when the class catches up, he or she is going to be quite bored while the rest of the class learns something that he or she has already mastered. A much better approach is to teach students math that doesn’t normally make it into school curriculums. After all, math is an enormous domain, and standard school curriculums only cover a small portion of the possibilities. By teaching unusual math, it’s possible to keep a child highly challenged without causing future problems. Better yet, that student will then have a wider and deeper range of mathematical experience to draw from than they would otherwise have had. Of course, because this approach to math tutoring is relatively difficult, it is most likely to work with an experienced, professional tutor.
Math tutoring is not a panacea, but it is nevertheless a very useful tool for a wide range of students. There are many more situations in which a parent may consider math tutoring than I have mentioned here. If you are trying to figure out if math tutoring is right for your family, I would recommend thinking about what the root cause of your difficulty is. Would highly individualized attention from an educational professional get to the root of the problem? If so, your student is a good candidate for math tutoring.
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This is a fucking joke..
b. 29.
(sinB)/b = (sinA)/a
sinB/5=sin42/7
sinB = 5(0.66/7) = 0.48
So B=28.6
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1. There should be 4. You can count the number of maxima/minima of a polynomial by taking its degree minus one. That works for most polynomials but you do have to make sure that the function doesn't have any "points of inflection" where a minimum and a maximum sort of exist at the same point, which eliminates the local region they both rule. You can verify this one with a graphing calculator.
2. The 'factor theorem' says that in a polynomial that starts with ax^n and ends with +b, the product of the roots is b/a. In this case, the product of the roots is -192. You can factor 192 to get a list of integer possibilities: +/-: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 96, 192. Trying them out one at a time:
+1: -196. -1: 1+18+93+80-192 = 0. <- -1 is a root, so (x+1) is a factor.
Now we can factor out (x+1) to get (x+1)(x^3 – 19x^2 + 112x – 192)
Now we should try -1 again in x^3 – 19x^2 + 112x – 192, to see if it is a double root. -1 – 19 – 112 – 192 is definitely < 0. In fact, no negative number will be a root: all the terms would be negative.
2: 8-76+224-192 = -36. 3: 27-171+336-192 = 0 <- 3 is a root, so (x-3) is a factor. Factor it out to get (x+1)(x-3)(x^2 – 16x + 64).
Now, the only potential factors of the remaining polynomial are 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64… but actually we've already eliminated 1 and 2, and thus also eliminated 32 and 64. So only 4, 8, and 16 are left to check.
4: 16 – 64 + 64 = 16.
8: 64 – 128 + 64 = 0 <- 8 is a root, so (x-8) is a factor, and thus the other factor must be also (x-8).
So x^4-18x^3+93x^2-80x-192 = (x+1)(x-3)(x-8)(x-8).
3: You can find the vertical asymptote by graphing: it's the place where the graph goes "off the charts" vertically either up or down. You can also find it by examining the function. A vertical line is of the form x = C for some constant C. Since the function has no defined value there, you should look for any x values that don't lead to a well-defined output for r. In this case, since (x-8) is the denominator, and dividing by 0 causes problems, x = 8 is the asymptote.
Man, this is a tutorial not a lap dance, lol.
This is easy I will pass the GED in no time
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Well, with the economy being the way it is and jobs being hard to get, I would recommend doing an internship. It's the easiest way to get your foot in the door with a company. The reason for this being is because a company can have someone do a job for cheap or even free as opposed to having to pay someone a salary. Then after you have worked there for a few months or maybe a semester, they will usually hire you for a full time position (if you did well). It's easier to get a job after an internship because your employer already knows what you can do, and you're already trained and used to working with a company as opposed to someone else who's looking for a job. Don't go to grad school unless you really want to, and most of them these days prefer people who have had experience in the working world. Also you need to get a masters before you get a PhD. But yea get a job in the working world so that you can find out what you like and don't like so that then if you decide to go back to school, you'll know what you'd like your concentration to be.
Get a tutor. I used to go to tutoring school everyday Saturday when I was in middle school and they taught me high school math level like Algebra and Geometry. Now, I'm taking Algebra 2 and I understand almost everything. =)))))
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y dont u just go to a normal school?
Are you joking, jala? This is FAR from confusing! I bet even fifth graders can do this but they aren’t introduced to this formula at that time. If you tell a fifth grader what to do they can do it easily. No one uses a different method unless they are CRAZY = )
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