Year 4 student Jai worked on skip counting by 3s and 6s using brick pavers outside to spot number patterns, then practised telling the time with an analogue clock, linking it to the 5 times tables.

In Year 8, Alyssa focused on converting fractions to decimals and percentages, including simplifying large fractions and multiplying decimals by powers of ten.

Meanwhile, Elysia (TAFE) strengthened her understanding of long division and applied it to convert fractions to decimals, as well as reviewing BODMAS for multi-step problems in her coursework.

A Year 11 student preparing for TAFE assessments struggled to remember multi-step processes like converting fractions to decimals after long gaps between lessons. As a tutor noted, "with a month's gap, she had forgotten parts of the process and needed a full hour to review."

For a Year 7 learner, difficulty interpreting worded Maths questions slowed progress—she underlined information but still missed what was being asked, especially in perimeter problems.

Meanwhile, in upper primary, one student hesitated to answer unless certain and sometimes guessed quickly on Prodigy rather than working through the steps. These habits led to lost confidence or repeated mistakes when facing new material.

One Penrice tutor noticed that a Year 11 student, Elysia, who previously hesitated to ask for help and often felt unsure with BODMAS and division, is now confidently talking herself through multi-step problems and creating detailed cheat sheets to guide her independent study.

In another recent session, Alyssa in Year 9 improved her accuracy by writing out every step of complex fraction conversions—after struggling before with careless errors when working mentally.

Meanwhile, Tegan in Year 6 surprised her tutor by doubling the amount of punctuation homework assigned; she identified full stops more reliably after reading her own writing aloud to catch missing pauses.