PEER TUTORING

ALLUA LOPEZ ABM-1

Most of the students will agree to this

sentence: “It’s not easy to deal with
numbers”. It’s been the usual scenario
whenever a student is encountering a math
subject.
Me and my friends are classmates with
the strand of Accountancy Business and
Management where we are taking business
mathematics as one of our learning subject for
the first sem. And because numbers will
always be a body to us we cannot do any but
to accept the fact that no matter how much we try to avoid it, it will always find its way to meet
us. It’s undeniable that we often get frustrated whenever we are trying to analyze a problem
with so much Xs to be found. Net profit, net income, net loss, gross profit, sales, cost of good
sold and etc., they are all ABM student’s problem.
Until our teacher gave a task about peer tutoring. At first it seems like it’s just an
another work to be done but as we tried to do it, every member is benefited. Not only the
leader is allowed to talk but everyone has the chance to say and share their insights, idea and
questions. Since it is considered as a collaborative learning, we shared techniques on how to
solve a problem in the most effective way that we know. And because we are friends, it’s
natural that sometimes talking unnecessary things will butt in, but still it makes the learning to
be smooth and fun.
Solving a problem alone and trying
to cope with the lesson alone are sometimes
stressful. But by the help of this learning
style, it is proven effective that it can obtain
the main objective which is to learn and
understand the lesson on a faster and better
way comparing to “solo flight learning”.
As someone is speaking about the
things that she knows it is being embarked in
her memory resulting to understanding her
learnings more. And as someone is listening, the things that she hears are being added to the
things that she knows and it can even answer the questions inside her mind. And because it’s
open, they can freely ask all the things that aren’t clear to them. Step by step we are able to
acquire the things needed to solve a problem correctly.

At first, without the peer tutoring we

can’t answer all the given problems alone and
we can’t get a perfect score as well. But after
the tutorial everyone is able to understand
and get a high score out of the activity.
According to my observation as a
leader I can conclude that because they feel
comfortable in receiving instructions as well
as giving their own insights about the topic, it
is easy for them to discern and digest each
step on solving a problem without even
memorizing the formula but rather practicing on how to get the x variable in a natural way
using their own understanding.
Peer tutoring can make us students to deal with numbers comfortably with
perseverance to answer even a single mathematical problem.