EzyMath2025-11-04T23:01:16+11:00Posted in All Categories, Problem Solving & Independence
Do you have any more suggestions as to how I can help my year 12 student to get into good problem-solving habits, he does not like the self-questioning process? 🤔 It is hard to answer your question because of the lack of specificity. What specifically is wrong with ..
EzyMath2025-11-06T22:28:12+11:00Posted in All Categories, Coaching, Mentoring & Reflection, Confidence, Problem Solving & Independence
Advice & BackgroundThe advice given to me last month was really helpful. Samuel believes that in order to succeed in Maths is only possible if you are a 'genius' and this may be due to the fact that I had tried to simplify things too much during class ..
EzyMath2025-11-05T21:29:01+11:00Posted in All Categories, Coaching, Mentoring & Reflection, Confidence
Helping a Student Overcome the Fear of Being Wrong Another of my maths students seems to be quite anxious about getting the right answer. She often answers questions with what she thinks I want to hear, rather than out of her own understanding. I get the impression that ..
EzyMath2025-11-06T22:44:17+11:00Posted in All Categories, Coaching, Mentoring & Reflection, Study Habits
“I am finding it difficult to enforce the learning strategies…” I am finding it difficult to enforce the learning strategies Talking Aloud, Back Checking, and Pen to Paper and to explain them in such a way that my students are convinced they are important. 🤔Most importantly the students ..
EzyMath2025-11-06T22:04:40+11:00Posted in All Categories, Primary School Learning, Relationships: Parent, Student &Tutor
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 ..
EzyMath2025-11-07T20:19:08+11:00Posted in All Categories, Remembering Stuff, Structuring Lessons
One of my students tends to understand a topic one week but forgets most of it the next. Should I administer more regular homework so concepts I teach in class are not forgotten? Homework is quite a specific matter. 🤔 While some students are open to it others ..
EzyMath2025-11-06T21:04:29+11:00Posted in All Categories, Starting Tutoring, Teacher & School Issues
The Student’s Notebook DilemmaThe student's school notebook is empty, she stated that her teacher does not give class notes and only uses the notes from the textbook/worksheet. She student tells me the teacher does not give any notes and i cannot give any notes to her now because ..
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 ..
