MTV Mission
The goal of the Math Tutoring Venue is to improve student understanding and performance in all areas of mathematics at Plainfield High School by providing assistance to both students and teacher

The MTV will assist students with their daily homework, help prepare for quizzes and tests, review previously learned lessons, and catch up on basic math skills.

• You need a current Joliet or Plainfield Library Card

1. Go to Library or After-School center's web site and click on  Live Homework Help link or graphic.
2. Enter your grade level and homework subject.
3. Connect to a tutor in the online classroom for exert help.

            A   90-100
            B   80-89
            C   70-79
            D   60-69
            F      0-59

 Components Assessed: 
            80% Participation: Binder Checks, Daily Warm-ups (I. T.)
            Homework: Daily Assignments, projects, and papers
            Assessments: Tests and Quizzes
            20% Cumulative Final exam

1. Study - OK, that sounds dumb. Of course you should study. 

2. Don't study too much! Spending too much time going over and over the same stuff won't help and will just overwhelm you.

3. Calm those fears by treating yourself with calmness. Try to have a set routine - knowing that you ALWAYS eat oatmeal on test days might just help. Go to bed on time. In the morning, eat breakfast, put on your lucky sweater (really! it works!), and pack yourself a treat for lunch.

1.  Read the directions at least two times.  Make sure you understand what the question is asking.

2.  When you answer a question, especially on the written responses, make sure it answers the question being asked.

3.  If you are having trouble answering a multiple choice question, look for the choices you know for sure are wrong.  Cross them out and choose from the choices that are left over.

4.  When you work the problems on scratch paper, do it neatly.  Make sure you are lining numbers up correctly.  If you need to draw some kind of "picture" to help you solve the problem, please do so.

5.  Always check your work.  Subtraction problems are checked by adding the answer you got to the bottom number that was subtracted.  Division is checked by multiplying your answer and the number you divided by.

6.  If you are answering a written response question, please make sure you show ALL  of your work.   Don't erase anything.  If you are having to explain your work, tell what you did step by step as if you were teaching someone how to do that problem.  Remember you get points not only for a correct answer, but for your steps in solving that problem.   That means that you can get a wrong answer, but still get points if the steps you took were correct.