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[quote=Anonymous]As a tutor I can say that Algebra Ii is a very common place to fall apart, and it’s usually because kids haven’t learned to keep strictly to a linear organization of algebraic manipulation and haven’t learned to write equations.  It also can be because they are not memorizing formulas and key concepts (sometimes not even able to recognize what is “key”).  And, in Algebra 2 it can be that their underlying memorization and application of fractions and exponents/roots and graphing is weak, so because they don’t know or remember they can’t apply the simple rules to more complex ideas.

Some kids really need a good tutor to do homework with them and explicitly enforce the linear organization/manipulation, re-teach earlier concepts and identify what current concepts and formulas have to be memorized.

Some schools have some kind of after school help program but often there’s no higher level math teacher there.  Sometimes peer tutors are good but sometimes they can only explain an answer not identify the underlying student problems. Asking the teacher for help at lunch isn’t a great long term solution. (Sometimes the teacher is actually the problem.)

Dropping down from honors is OK, but can be frustrating for bright students because the non-honors pace is much slower and the kids have even more, different kinds of problems with the math.  Those students just need better or different explanations than they get from class. [/quote]

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