Much of this was covered in last year's content as well, the school's content currently seems to be recapping last years and so Stephen is doing ok. His memory on this topic is a little shaky as he struggled more with fractions and percentages last year in particular but as the lesson went on he was able to recall some of what he learnt originally and slowly got his footing.

As a way to help improve Stephens memory on certain concepts I have gotten him to start writing down the formula required at the beginning of every question regardless if he knows how to do the question or not. This will hopefully help him develop a better sense of how different formulas; converting between whole numbers and percentages work and more easily engrain it into his memory.

By the end of the lesson Stephen seemed to had a better understanding of the basic concepts and how to apply it to a variety of different questions. Since this content was already covered pretty extensively last year Stephen already had the knowledge at the back of his mind, the lesson was mainly spent just helping him get back into the groove, recalling what he has learned and get more comfortable with doing maths again which generally went quite well.

Stephen does seem to need more guidance on how to approach deadlines and plan ahead to make sure he does not fall behind. This is something I will definitely take note of and try to help him develop better habits for always checking on when things are due as well as making sure he sets reasonable goals throughout the week in order to meet the deadlines more comfortably on his own. I have also reiterated that if Stephen has any sort of questions at all while doing work he could always ask me via email when outside of tutoring sessions.

The content itself is not too particularly hard, we were able to make sure that Stephen had a foundationally good understanding of all of the things we were doing during the lesson. I also made sure that Stephen had a good understanding of what to do for the rest of the assignment so that he could more effortlessly approach the task by himself tomorrow. Otherwise Stephen mainly needs to put in more hours in order to finish off the assignment.

This assignment did show that Stephen needs to work on his time management to deal with assignments deadlines. Stephen should've had sufficient time to do this assignment since the last lesson till this one, however, he did not seem to partition his time as well as he could and now he still has a decent chunk of the assignment left and it is due tomorrow which is not ideal. This is something I will try to keep a note of a find ways to help Stephen improve with his time management for written assignments.

As an example, during the lesson I helped Stephen with collecting data and using the class data to find certain key statistics such as the mean median and mode of his classes' phone usage in hours for the week. Everything went quite smoothly, Stephen knew what was being discussed and he also got a chance to do it himself. The rest of the assignment is primarily the same thing just done over and over again but for different data so since we were able to show that Stephen is able to do the first part, he should also be able to make a start on the later parts of the assignment by himself.

One part of this assignment also involves Stephen examining the data and writing a report. This is not only putting his understanding of maths into practice but also how he reads, interpret and is able to properly present his findings regarding the data collected in a way that makes sense which is a skill set in of its own. I will have a further read of Stephen's assignment once he has done more next week making sure that he is answering the questions in the report in a way that makes sense and is what the teacher is looking for. As discussed in the lesson he could always ask me anything during the week if he runs into any questions while doing the assignment.