I stopped in at the library this afternoon to check out some hammock reading (the Young Relative's "Naked Economics" doesn't qualify) and found that the place was a hotbed of not only summer reading programs but also math tutoring.
At one table an instructor was sitting across from his student teaching him how to plot algebraic functions: "OK, this is a really nice function, but they're not all going to be so neat," he said, pointing to a graph and asking the youth to identify the asymptote.
Another teacher, working with a younger pupil, was discussing the principles of rounding in the tenths and hundredths columns: "Here's how you can remember it," she told him. "Five and up: give it a shove. Four and below, let it go."
And a third tutor was using old-fashioned but still effective flashcards to teach the times tables.
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