Category: Team Discussion

This discussion topic comes from Robin DeShazo, a math tutor who recently joined the our team:

“We often find that the gap in understanding for the student lies not in the concept that is being covered, but in a previous concept that the student needs to know to understand the current concept. This hole in their understanding is often shown when interacting with the student.

How do you handle this? Do you abandon the current concept to focus on the missed concept? Do you give a brief overview of the missed concept and move on with the current concept? Or do you push the student through the missed concept and stay focused on only the current concept?”

 

What do you find works well in a situation like this?
What doesn’t work well?

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— Team Yup 

Discussion:

Today’s discussion topic comes from physics & chemistry tutor Igor Bieloposkyi :

“Regardless of competence, sometimes there are questions with unpredictable answers or approaches. What resources do you use?

I’d like to bring in as an example a wonderful website called Wolfram Alpha. This website doesn’t give you the solution, but it can help you calculate practically anything! It is a mathematical Google. 🙂

How about you? What resources do you have bookmarked to quickly search for solutions other than HipChat?”

Have an idea for a team discussion topic?
Use the Team Discussion form to let us know!

 

— Team Yup

Discussion:

Today’s discussion topic comes from math tutor Pralhad Shinde:

“How would you approach teaching the following word problem if the students says he/she doesn’t know anything about odd integers?”:

Find two consecutive odd integers such that the sum of the smaller and 3 times the larger is 330.

How would you handle a situation like this? Share in the comments! Have an idea for a team discussion topic? Let us know at tutor.support@yup.com.

— Team Yup

Discussion:

Today’s discussion topic comes from, James Chen,  a Tutor Quality Manager who teaches math and physics:

“How should we teach a student about
factoring a trinomial like  x² – 5x + 6  effectively?

What’s your go-to approach for teaching factoring? Share in the comments!  Have an idea for a team discussion topic? Let us know at tutor.support@yup.com.

— Team Yup

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