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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.