Learning is not just about giving children a way to solve their problems or having them explain what they have learned in their own way, but it starts with understanding how students learn. In a reading by Steven Turner, he said: "Because student learning is the only measure that all teachers are required to influence, before they can influence their students, teachers have a good understanding of how students learn . » (p. 9). In my previous example of teaching the boy to subtract, I had a very fixed view of his learning and thought that the only way to know if this had influenced his learning of subtraction was to see if he could use his own words to explain it. However, children are still developing their own language, so it is not fair to measure their learning ability or my influence on how they explain a new concept. Instead, learning begins with identifying the way your student learns best and for my tutoring student, it may not even have been the way he learns best, perhaps he- it needs physical representations. During my internship this semester, a student came to me with his completed math worksheet and I pointed out the subtraction problem and said, "I like the hard work you put into this, I I was wondering how you got that answer? and he took me to the number line in his class. He then explained how he uses the number line to count down and see what number he gets to and this is his answer. A few weeks later, he was struggling with a difficult subtraction problem and asked me to help him. I wanted to explain it the way I wanted with physical manipulations or using this concept of friends, but I realized he had a way of understanding subtraction so I tried to take inspiration from that . We need to learn how our students understand concepts so that we can achieve any type of