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Session write-up · Tue 9 June 2026 Sent · 6:41 pm

Algebra with Maya R.

45 min · recorded with consent · drafted in about a minute · reviewed and edited by the tutor · session 7 of 12

Summary

Maya arrived able to factor a quadratic when the leading coefficient is one, and stuck the moment it is not. We worked through six problems of the harder kind, slowly, and found the actual gap: she was guessing factor pairs rather than splitting the middle term, so a problem that did not resolve in two guesses turned into a dead end. We wrote out the splitting method as four steps and she used it unaided on the last three problems. She also asked, unprompted, why the method works, which is the first time she has asked that in these sessions.

What we covered

Factoring quadratics where the leading coefficient is greater than one, by splitting the middle term.
Checking a factorisation by expanding it back, every time, before moving on.
Two questions from last week's quiz that she lost marks on for method rather than for arithmetic.

Action items Maya agreed to

Practice set four, problems one to twelve, using the four steps rather than guessing.Before Thursday.
Time herself on five problems, ten minutes, and bring the ones she could not finish.Before the next session.
Redo the two quiz questions we went through, from a blank page.Done in the session.

Next focus

Start the next session with the timed set she brings back. If the four steps hold under time pressure, move on to solving by completing the square. If they do not, spend the first twenty minutes there rather than adding anything new.

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Follow-up email · Tue 9 June 2026, 6:41 pm Delivered

Maya's session today: factoring, and what to practise

From Northline Tutoring · to Maya's parent · sent by the tutor after review

The email

Hello,

Maya and I worked on factoring quadratics this afternoon, the harder kind where the number in front of the squared term is not one. She could already do the simpler version. What was slowing her down was the method: she was guessing which numbers would work instead of using a step that always gets there. We wrote that step out together and she used it on her own by the end of the session.

Two things before Thursday. Practice set four, problems one to twelve, using the four steps rather than guessing. Then five problems against a ten minute timer, and she brings back any she could not finish, unfinished, so we can look at where it broke down.

One thing worth knowing: she asked why the method works today, which she has not done before. That is a good sign and I want to keep it going.

You can see the full write-up, and everything from the previous sessions, on her page.

Thanks,
Her tutor at Northline Tutoring

Northline Tutoring is a made up centre and Maya is a made up student. On a real account the logo, the colours and the name the email comes from are the ones the centre sets.

Where this comes from

The tutor recorded the session with consent, and about a minute after it ended Slide had drafted the write-up above. The tutor read it, changed two lines, and sent it. The parent got the email; the student got the same write-up on her own page, alongside every previous session.

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