Two-way communication

Today I saw another great stride for D.  Last week, after meeting with him and his mother, I had seen an improvement in work ethic.  When we assigned 3 figures to graph (testing for similarity), he chose to graph all 5 figures, which must have taken a bit of extra time because the coordinates needed to be calculated for each figure.  Today when we taught mental tricks to calculate 1%, 2%, 5%, 10%, 25%, and 50% of a number, I handed out a worksheet for the students to do.  Unfortunately, their skills were not as developed as I thought, and the problems were taking more time than I had planned for the students to complete.  I changed the requirement to finishing 3 multi-step problems, and then students could transition to Math Whizz, an online math program. D gave me his worksheet, and then asked if he could have it back to work on the additional problems.  He said "I want to do more of these."  This from someone who doesn't view himself as able to do math. I can't wait to email his mom and tell her what a terrific attitude her son has!