I had the fortunate opportunity to help out with the kids’ and their math homework. More specifically, the kids were learning multiplication and division. Some kids were having trouble understanding multiplication, so I gave them the suggestion to draw a picture. For example, for the multiplication problem two times three, I described a scenario that represented the multiplication problem. I said if one kid gave two of his friends three pieces of candy each, how many candies did the kid hand out? With this scenario in their mind, the kids were able to easily draw out a picture and figure out the answer. I did something similar for the division problems as well: if one kid gave had six pieces of candy to hand out to his two friends, how many pieces of candy does each friend get? The kids were able to solve this problem right away as well. After creating a few more similar scenarios, the kids were able to successfully solve the rest of the problems themselves! Once I finished helping them with the homework assignment, one of the kids came up to me and thanked me. He said he found the draw a picture advice really helpful! I advised him that any time he was stuck on a math problem, he should draw a picture to help him solve the problem. Giving him this advice reminded me of the times when I was struggling through a math problem and had used a picture to help me solve the problem. I thought about the advice some more and realized that, even today, I continue to draw things whenever I have a problem (such as drawing out a schedule for all my assignments for the week, whenever I am trying to figure out what is wrong with my code for my computer science class, etc.). I find myself often giving advice to kids that are still applicable in my daily life.