Kristy Chimera
MED 300
Journal #14

	Today was my make-up day at Lafayette. I had missed a day due to a family emergency, so I went today one last time to the Algebra class. Out of the 30 or so students that are enrolled in the class, I think 13 were there today. The class was moved back down to Mr. Koestler’s room, which is significantly smaller. I’m not sure that 30 students would fit in his room at the same time. I spent most of today helping Jose with the material. They started out by reviewing graphing systems of inequalities. Jose got behind within about the first three minutes. I helped him through the two examples that the rest of the class was working on. Jose did miss the last example because it took us so long to get through the first two, but at least what we got through, he understood. Then the class moved on to solving systems of equation with matrices in the calculator. I actually think the students will remember this way better than the long way that we taught them. I walked around and helped the students who were having trouble with the calculators. Some of the students that probably would not be able to solve the system the long way, were getting the correct answers in about two minutes with the calculator. I just hope that they remember how to use their calculators on the exam in January. Today was a good day. It was good to see the students one last time and to see how Mr. Koestler handles things his way. He had the class engaged in the material the entire time and it seemed like the students understood what was being taught.