Tutoring 2

As I already posted some time ago I am tutoring my younger brother, who is in year 8.

This time I am going to talk about the things we did for the past week. After we covered Statistics we moved onto the next topic. Although I didn’t want to follow the book, I also asked him to tell me in which areas is he facing any issues, so that is why this time we did linear equations.

I plan our lessons the night before so I always have some tasks for him to do while I am checking his homework from last time. For this lesson I made him sketch graphs of different equations for example: y = -2x + 3 or y = 3x+4 and furthermore I explained to him that the graph of a quadratic equation  ax2+ b is a U- shaped curve. And that a changes the gradient of the curve and b moves the curve up or down. He already knew all those things but I decided to teach him one more time so that we could be sure he knows it.

During our last lesson I thought him how to match graphs to real- life situations. And I told him to look at what happens as the x-values increase by equal amounts.

During our lessons I love the fact that my brother is acting as we are not family but a student and a teacher, therefore he listens very carefully and respects me.

During this activity I have worked collaboratively with others and I have developed new skills, as I have improved my own sketching.