A black woman who was wearing a turquoise T-shirt was sitting beside me in the math lab. She raised her hand, and that meant she did need some help on her math.
A tutor went to her table and asked, “Can I help you?”
“Yeah, I am working on how to find the slope of the equation, and that makes me confused,” she said.
“Well, do you have some questions that I can focus on?”
“Yes, I do,” she answered, “here is the exercise from my homework.”
“OK. I need to show you a formula to solve these serious problems,” the tutor said. And then, he wrote down one formula on a piece of paper and explained to her, “Y equals mX plus b. The coefficient of X is called ‘slope’, and b is ‘y-intercept’.”
“Wow! I never saw that before,” she said.
“Let’s do one example together. So, we need to plug in numbers for X and Y, and then, we will find the slope and y-intercept.”
She nodded and said, “That makes sense! I feel better right now! Thanks for your help!”
“You are welcome.”
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