Every stage of school brings new challenges. These guides follow the academic journey from early primary maths through high school and the senior years, to choosing subjects, degrees and careers, with advice for students, parents and tutors at each step.

Surprising Trend in Top Paying Australian Careers

High-Paying Careers that Rely on Math SkillsWhat do anaesthetists, mining engineers, financial dealers, and dental practitioners have in common? Two things: They are on the list of occupations that have the highest paid workers per hour. AND they require those highly paid workers to be proficient..

Battleship Sunk! – Using The Game of Battleship To Practice Graphing

Battleship Sunk! – Using The Game of Battleship To Practice GraphingStudents will be so excited to challenge each other in a new version of the famous game of Battleship that they won’t even realize they are learning! 🎯Battleship is a game based on coordinates. Each player..

Times Tables

How to help a child to remember their times-tablesThere are a lot of methods you could use to tutor students to memorise multiplication. Students may find it more enjoyable to use games or to race against the clock 🕒. You can find dozens of tricks and tips online, there..

Planning Lessons for Maximum Impact

How do I cover the majority of what is necessary within a one hour span?✨Being able to cover the material each lesson is quite a feat! Being able to cover most of the material each lesson is very important and can be done when lesson planning is used. Effectively to..

Student Is Rushed – Sessions Filled With Pressure and Tension

I always feel under pressure with one student - they are too rushed in everything, it feels like she's putting all the pressure onto me. Tips on how to deal with students who try to unload their pressure onto me would help. The student doesn't seem to want regular lessons..

Dealing with Finger Counting!

🔍 Struggling with Mental MathI am having a little difficulty teaching my student mental math and adding strategies. She still counts on her fingers. She cannot add 9 and 4, she would have to count on her fingers. Last lesson I politely banned her from using her fingers and went..

Giving Clients Feedback

One of my students is a grade 6 boy suffering from learning difficulties. I'm not sure exactly how to bring up the topic of progression with his mother. I worry that come exam time she will be expecting large improvements but because of his difficulties I think it may..

Student Resents Tutoring

Identifying the IssueI am not getting a good response from one student; she openly resents having a tutor and is passively aggressive toward me. She is rude and does not complete the homework I set for her. I have tactfully picked up on her rudeness and explained to her how..

Building Rapport

Any advice on creating rapport once lessons have already started?The importance of the first impression cannot be over stated. If the lessons have already started and you made a good first impression then developing further rapport with the student will be much easier than if the first lesson was a..

Student chats too much

I can never manage to stop my student in year 6 from talking about her friends and experiences with math. Is there a way I can politely tell her to stop talking and listen? Interesting situation. It is great that you have a strong enough relationship with the..

Student Relationship – Needs Work

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 my teaching..

Year 4, Some General Advice

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 something you..

What Makes A Good Tutor?

IntroductionMy name is David Bouskila, I have been with Ezy Math Tutoring for 2 years now and have taught a wide variety of students over that period. I believe my current situation gives me the ability to view the tutoring process from two main perspectives - the client side and..

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