As a freshman and sophomore in college, I attended BGSU Firelands near my home town. Because of this, I was able to coach high school soccer, basketball and tennis. One of my players on the freshman basketball team last winter was receiving an F in his algebra class, and it actually made him academically ineligible for the second half of the season. He was not fond of his teacher, rarely did his homework, and did poorly on his tests. His mother knew I was studying to become a math teacher, so she asked me to tutor him after practices. We started to work on math two days a week after practice, usually on homework. When we started he barely had a grasp on the simplest of concepts. As the season went on, I started to make progress with him. He
