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Tristan is a mechanical engineering student with consistently high results across advanced and extension maths and physics, giving him a solid foundation to support school students in these subjects. At university, he has worked on hands-on engineering projects such as designing a small-scale hydraulic engine and a remote-controlled digger, which helps him explain abstract maths and physics ideas in practical, relatable ways. This tutor is well placed to help students not just “do the steps”, but understand why methods work.
Tristan has worked as a music tutor for children and adults, teaching both theory and instruments including violin, piano and guitar. In this role he planned lessons, scheduled sessions, and adjusted his teaching style to suit different ages and learning speeds. He is used to breaking complex skills into manageable pieces and giving precise, constructive feedback. This experience transfers directly to explaining tricky maths and English concepts in a calm, step-by-step way that builds confidence.
With several years as an orchestral violinist, including leading a group of younger players on an overseas tour, Tristan brings patience, leadership and a steady, encouraging presence to his tutoring. He is highly organised from balancing demanding engineering studies with work and music commitments, so he helps students set realistic goals, plan study time and stay on track. Parents can expect a tutor who is reliable, easy to communicate with and genuinely invested in each student’s progress.
Recent Tutoring Comments:
Learning to combine fractions with different denominators. Went well and established a good method to use
Learning to combine fractions with different denominators. Went well and established a good method to use
Conversion of fractions to whole numbers and decimals is fairly weak.
Manipulation of equations is improving steadily and understanding is growing. Gathering like terms well.
Manipulation of equations is improving steadily and understanding is growing. Gathering like terms well.
Needs a bit more work on fractions and rearranging equations with fractions involved.
Performed well on quiz, and a fair amount of missed marks were running out of time not lack of understanding. Understood nearly every missed mark we went through in ...
Performed well on quiz, and a fair amount of missed marks were running out of time not lack of understanding. Understood nearly every missed mark we went through in the session
Advanced trigonometry (unit circle work and understanding of sin, cos and tan relating to unit circle, and application of that to geometry problems).
General algebra was improving, starting to understand and correctly rearrange equations to calculate x
General algebra was improving, starting to understand and correctly rearrange equations to calculate x
Fractions need some work and started to struggle a bit as algebra got harder