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 ..
EzyMath2025-11-04T21:41:20+11:00Posted in All Categories, Motivation & Interest, Primary School Learning
Keeping Students Engaged in TutoringI’m finding it hard to keep one of my primary students interested during tutoring. Her attention span is short, so even fun methods previously used are getting boring. Currently we are learning division – are there any fun games for this as I am ..
EzyMath2025-11-07T19:43:15+11:00Posted in All Categories, Teacher & School Issues
One of my students is currently learning a new topic at school. The method that her teacher uses must be a new approach to teaching this maths topic or perhaps the teacher’s own invention. Either way, I am not 100% familiar with it and I’m not sure the ..
