What Math Learning Center actually means
The phrase Math Learning Center gets used loosely enough that it is worth pinning down before going any further.
Three parts are doing the work here: Math sets the approach, Center names what it is aimed at, and the learning in between is where most of the disagreement actually lives.
The reason students and the families supporting them end up here is rarely academic curiosity. It is usually a specific stuck point, and Math Learning Center turns out to be the name for it.
The questions worth asking
Start where the understanding actually is rather than where the syllabus says it should be: What part of this already makes sense to you?
Then test the reasoning rather than the recall: What would have to be true for your answer to be wrong? Two questions, asked in that order, do more here than a page of explanation.
Where people go wrong
Where this usually goes wrong is that a finished worksheet means the work was understood — a mistake that is invisible until something unfamiliar turns up.
Putting it into practice
In practice this means working a problem aloud, then explaining the reasoning to someone else without notes.
You will know it is working when the student starts asking their own next question before being prompted.
Where to go next
If this is the thing you are stuck on, start with the beginner guide, then a first guided session on a topic that is currently frustrating.