Year 8 student Greta worked on negative numbers and algebraic expansion, as well as revising fraction and decimal operations using number lines; she also practiced translating simple sentences in French using new food vocabulary.

Year 9 student Layla focused on solving linear simultaneous equations by substitution and completed trigonometry exercises including SOH CAH TOA, sine rule, and cosine rule.

For Year 10, Ben reviewed quadratic equations through word problems and graphing, then practiced finding the roots and focal points of parabolas using different methods.

In Year 4 maths, one student often skipped double-checking answers, leading to avoidable errors in fraction work—"she tends not to double-check answers, which leads to basic mistakes." This chipped away at her confidence.

In Year 9 algebra, a tendency emerged to jump straight into rearranging equations without pausing to clarify what the question required, sometimes multiplying instead of dividing when isolating variables.

A senior student in Year 11 methods struggled with rationalising surds due to messy working and missing steps; as a tutor noted, "there are a lot of steps," but they weren't all shown.

In VCE Specialist Maths, confusion between formulae and intuition persisted because formulas were applied by memory rather than understanding the underlying logic. The result: extra time spent untangling mistakes instead of progressing confidently into new concepts.

One Bakery Hill tutor noticed a Year 9 student who previously avoided asking for help now openly requests clarification when stuck on powers or negative numbers, which has led to her solving long multiplication problems independently using the lattice method.

In Year 11 maths, another student made a breakthrough with exponent laws—after initially mixing up rules, he now applies them accurately in both standard and non-standard equations.

Meanwhile, a younger student in primary sessions began grouping dots correctly to find fractions after struggling with array-based questions; she finished by identifying 2/3 of 12 without visual prompts for the first time.