EzyMath2025-11-08T00:21:19+11:00Posted in All Categories, Organizing Lessons, Starting Tutoring
Overview My student is in Year 10, but she does not know her times tables. She even struggles with her 2 times tables. When I arrived, the student and her mother asked me to teach her long division. I am aware that my student needs to build her ..
EzyMath2025-11-08T02:03:58+11:00Posted in All Categories, Problem Solving & Independence, Senior & High School Learning, Study Habits
Year 12 student: I need to work on improving her problem solving skills/independent learning, as well as her self-belief (such as trying more questions individually before asking). How do I best integrate some of the learning strategies into tutorial sessions for a year 12 student? Depends which learning ..
EzyMath2025-11-07T20:30:19+11:00Posted in All Categories, Relationships: Parent, Student &Tutor
Yr 11 Student ConcernYr 11 student has improved well over the past few weeks, but he is still not able to work through problem solving questions well. The biggest concern with him is that he hesitates a lot during class, he fails to cooperate and often suggests that ..
EzyMath2025-11-08T02:05:19+11:00Posted in All Categories, Primary School Learning
I am starting with a new student who is in year 4, is there anything I should prepare in particular regarding math problems, or should I concentrate on their text book they use at school?In year 4 they may not have a text book. If so, this is ..
EzyMath2025-11-06T20:37:00+11:00Posted in All Categories, Coaching, Mentoring & Reflection, Motivation & Interest
One student (yr 11 maths) seems a little lazy with the homework I assign them. I'm not sure whether my approach and attitude when assigning homework is not correct or they are just generally reluctant to do homework. I don't want to be strict in enforcing homework ..
EzyMath2025-11-07T23:51:05+11:00Posted in All Categories, Primary School Learning, Problem Solving & Independence
**Enjoying the Learning Journey**I always enjoy my time with the year 3 student, we always do some good work while I'm there but I find it hard to be sharp in my questioning, to challenge him in what he is doing and really force him to actually think ..
EzyMath2025-11-06T20:40:44+11:00Posted in All Categories, Motivation & Interest, Structuring Lessons
My student isn't challenging herself and is lacking the motivation to do so. Right now, I'm just trying to work on harder problems with her to show that she is capable of tackling much more difficult questions. Are there any textbooks at a Year 8 level that you ..
EzyMath2025-11-06T22:47:38+11:00Posted in All Categories, Motivation & Interest, Problem Solving & Independence
I have one student who is having trouble concentrating. I try my best to keep him focused but he is just so disinterested that I am finding it difficult to get him to focus. Silly questions like what is 7+6 he will say 10, and asking him to ..
EzyMath2025-11-06T20:42:28+11:00Posted in All Categories, Coaching, Mentoring & Reflection, Motivation & Interest
How do I keep targeting a problem area while maintaining interest without my student getting bored of doing the work? He’s not competent enough in this topic but is getting sick of repeating it with me almost every lesson.Dualistic ApproachTry to improve your communication so that the content ..
EzyMath2025-11-06T21:25:20+11:00Posted in All About Exams, Structuring Lessons
One of my students, Sarah, has just performed very poorly in her exam, scoring in the 40s. We’ve been working together for a few months and it seemed to going ok but her performance was FAR below expectations. I’m not sure what to say to the client ..
