Tutoring fifth grade math. Tutoring fifth
grade math is tutoring the beginnings of algebra,
and for many students, that's a big fat leap
from twenty-five divided by five is five,
to twenty-five divided by X is five. It's
just, they don't, it's weird. I mean they
can figure out the answer, but it's just a
weird way to think about it. And so to familiarize
them with that, what's required is just consistent
rules of algebra, such as do, if you do it
to one side of the equal sign, you have to
do it to the other side of the equal sign.
If you're, if you want to, if you want to
undo something, what you have to do is the
opposite of the sign, same quantity, blah,
blah, blah. So a lot of time, especially when
you are first getting into like negative numbers
and adding and subtracting negative numbers,
which is something you kind of don't get into
that until maybe eighth grade, but similarly
you use, you use a lot of models. For example,
the pie model for fractions or the checker
pair model for the negative numbers. You got
to use a lot of models. And when you're first
starting to learn that new abstract way of
thinking, you've got to use models also in
fifth grade algebra. So that's, that is how
to tutor fifth grade algebra, one way of tutoring.
That is a way of tutoring fifth grade algebra.
