Day 1 June 24

Monday 24, marked the beginning of AHA Bolivia's Khan Academy  pilot project. The winter break of the expected students has been delayed due to strikes earlier this year. Therefore, not all of the students enrolled in the class showed up. This was not unexpected although we hope to have more next week, when the winter break officially begins. We did have two students, Daniela and Erick, show up for our first class. Both the students and the teachers were excited to get started, and the small group allowed us to work closely with the students and familiarize ourselves with the program in action. Daniela has been a strong math student, while Erick was more apprehensive, but both seemed to enjoy their first day. At the beginning of the class, Erick was missing a lot of problems, and was getting frustrated, especially with exponents. He needed more attention than his sister, who was speeding along the knowledge map. Erick's difficulty was that he was desperate to get the answer without paying attention to the process, Elahdio, one of the teachers and a graduate of the Bolivian school system, came to the rescue and sat down with Erick, walking him through the steps of each problem. Once Erick began to spend more time with the process, he began to get the right answers. His enthusiasm for the website grew the more time he spent with it, and after conquering exponents, he felt comfortable exploring the whole site, and discovered and reviewed topics that he had not fully mastered before.

Elahdio was just as excited to have been able to help Erick.

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