Elizabeth Downs' tutors include a veteran primary teacher with special needs expertise, an award-winning mathematics educator (MSc, BEd) with international classroom experience, a University Merit scholar specialising in K–12 mentoring, experienced private STEM tutors including an ATAR 97.9 scorer and Brain Bee top 10% finalist, plus passionate early childhood educators and youth mentors.
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Proven Alicia, is softly spoken and paced and this appeals to my teen Rose. Alicia picks up when Rose hasn't understood and works to explain it differently until she does. We are very happy with the confidence Rose has gained in maths & the skills she can now apply at school.Ali
Year 4 student Ava worked on understanding place value up to five-digit numbers and practised long addition and subtraction with multi-digit problems.
Year 8 student Chase explored the angle sum property of quadrilaterals and triangles, including proving similarity and using cross multiplication to find corresponding sides.
For Year 10, Daniel revised solving quadratic equations by factorising and finding roots, as well as tackling practice questions on constructing angles using a protractor.
A Year 11 student preparing a Research Project left work until the last minute, saying he "did not want to pursue" it—this meant rushed drafts and little time for meaningful revision or feedback.
In Year 9 English, messy written work made it hard to keep ideas clear; as one tutor noted, "focus slips when writing longer responses," so arguments became repetitive or lost formality.
For Year 6 mathematics, a reluctance to write steps—especially in expanded notation—led to confusion when checking answers.
The unfinished homework on number patterns and times tables left gaps that slowed progress during sessions.
One Elizabeth Downs tutor noticed that a Year 10 student, Chelsea, has started to ask for clarification on equations right away instead of hesitating or skipping over difficult steps—a real shift from her earlier sessions.
Meanwhile, Caitlin in Year 9 independently tackled all the Pythagoras application questions without waiting for hints and even checked her answers herself before moving on.
In a younger group, Chase (Year 5) now consistently uses finger-tap spelling while reading tricky words out loud, showing much more patience than when he'd previously rush through and guess.
