How a student feels about maths shapes how well they learn it. These articles tackle maths anxiety, fear of mistakes, low motivation and focus problems, with practical strategies parents and tutors can use to rebuild confidence and help students enjoy maths again.

Does Tutoring Actually Improve Grades and Confidence?

Education is the foundation of a student’s future, but navigating academic challenges can be tough. Parents and students often ask, does tutoring actually help? The answer lies in understanding how tutoring addresses academic weaknesses, builds confidence, and nurtures skills for success.Tutoring isn’t just about passing the next exam. It’s about..

How to Make Maths Fun for Kids

Believe it or not, there is such a thing as fun maths! With a bit of lesson planning you can get to a point where kids enjoy the learning process. Engaging activities, fun games, and a more hands-on approach make a world of difference, to name a few. By tailoring..

How to Overcome Maths Anxiety Using These Simple Methods

A huge portion of the human population has a poor perception of mathematics. They often find it too difficult, very hard to understand, and most of all, highly impractical. Most students do not see any real-life application, especially if they are not choosing a profession that involves maths. This bad..

9 Ways to Boost Your Child’s Confidence

Confidence is one of those things that you think everyone else has except you. When you walk into a room, the door squeaks, and everyone looks at you, you’re 99% sure they’re all making fun of your shoes or hoping you don’t sit by them. Even as adults,..

Tweaking Math Curriculum To Students Interests

Almost every high school student has asked themselves, their teachers, tutors and parents the same question: “When are we ever going to have to use this?” When an educator can respond with real world examples that matter to the student, chances are the student will put in the extra effort..

3 Things To Tell The Student Who Is About To Give Up

3 Things To Tell The Student Who Is About To Give UpParents, teachers and tutors know all too well the helpless feeling that comes when the student they are trying to help is about to check out, throw in the towel, call it quits, and give up. They have tried..

Tutoring CAN be All Fun and Games

Children First, Students SecondIt is important for parents, teachers, and tutors to remember that **before students are students, they are children**. And children are built to play. They learn through playing from the time they are very small, and continue to grow mentally, emotionally, and physically when they are..

Brain Food: 6 Great Foods To Improve Your Childs Memory, Focus And Energy

Feed Them Right: Boost Their Learning with FoodParents are always looking for the newest, best, most talked about techniques to help their children skyrocket to the top of their class. Hiring a private tutor is an excellent way to give your child the head start that..

Math: It’s All About The Mindset

When a student enters a study session, they have one of two mindsets. They either have a fixed mindset, which makes the brain believe that they know all they are capable of knowing about a certain topic and that there cannot be any improvements or changes. Or, they could have..

Teaching Young Students Arithmetic Functions

Effective Ways to Teach Arithmetic to Young StudentsChildren can learn to count, add, subtract, divide, and multiply even before they can read. This is because arithmetic can be taught at a young age in ways that make sense and are fun. Younger students may not always be intrigued by numbers,..

Student not motivated, neither are the parents.

Student Not Motivated? Neither Are the ParentsBeing a tutor is really as much about being a mentor as it is about teaching fundamental academic lessons. When you’re teaching a student whose parents are unwilling to assist with their child’s education—or are too willing to excuse the student from meeting tutoring..

Student Young For Grade – Confidence Issues

Parents' Concerns: Youngest Students in ClassMany parents worry about their child being the youngest in the class, especially when deciding between entering kindergarten early or waiting. The concerns are understandable, especially when it comes to grades, attention, productivity, social networking, and maturity levels.Reassuring ParentsSome parents feel that enrolling their child..

Helping Students Who Don’t Want Tuition

How to help students tutor students who clearly don’t want to have tuition?As discouraging as some students’ attitudes are, nothing should negate the fact that as tutors, we have an opportunity to take a closed and negative mind and replace it with an open and positive one. In essence, that's..

Student Keeps Talking – Won’t Keep Focus

My student has a problem talking in class and her mother has informed me that her test results aren't improving either. I keep going through exam technique and organising her time but I don't think that is her problem. Her mother told me she has been having the same problems..

Student Is Not Doing Work – It Is Frustrating

Lack of discipline and commitment regarding homework. It is frustrating when I identify a 'gap' and create a worksheet, especially to target their weakness, and they lose it, or don't bother doing it! Especially since I have explained how doing the problems will help them, and gone over a few..

Work Ethic and Motivation

Encouraging a Student’s Work EthicI was wondering if there are any strategies that I may use in order to increase a students work ethic. Mainly just trying to encourage him to do more than what I set and there teacher sets for homework. Work ethic is something that..

Maths Tutoring and Concentration

The Student’s Attention SpanThe student’s attention span has slowly begun to decrease. We are working on new ways to keep the energy and focus level high ⚡. What are some ideas on keeping the concentration span to last longer?Here Are Some Ideas Here are some ideas:Some students have more of..

Serious Anxiety!

One Student’s ExperienceOne of my students becomes extremely nervous when asked questions during the lesson, even simple ones like "What's 5 X 6?" She becomes a little tense and shaky, and makes very very silly mistakes even though she knows the answer. I've tried to be more encouraging and not..

Ahead of Class or Not?

I'm not sure if I should teach her using the syllabus ahead of her school topics or if I should go along with the school work and allow her to be more confident in topics she is already learning. The problem with teaching ahead is she will not be..

Student Relationship – Friend or Foe?

I'm wondering how stern I should be upon the student when their concentration is waning. Should I be the friend who ushers and assists them through questions or should I be the stern teacher and push him through questions? Stern or Friendly is up to you 🤔. However, it isn’t..

Fear Of Maths Mistakes

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 she fears..

Maths Isn’t Challenging Student

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 could recommend..

Student Wont Focus – Guessing Answers

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 count up..

Maths Topic, Trouble Topic, Getting Bored Topic

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 sticks a..

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