What do I enjoy most about tutoring? 😁
I enjoy seeing students feel good about themselves when they see that with the right tools and effort that they can succeed. I also love to see the excitement that students have when they finally understand a mathematical idea.
My Strengths as Tutor 💪
I think my strengths as a tutor include:
Patience/Persistence - I understand that learning is hard, I find it hard too. I will always try to explain to a student an idea again, or a different way to try to help them understand.
Explanatory ability - Because I have gone through the process of learning all the maths myself in a very deliberate, conscious way, I think I am better equipped to explain ideas to students in a way they can understand.
Most important things I can do for a student 🏅
There are two main things that a tutor should aim to provide for a student:
1. Confidence/Self esteem - Students can't learn if they feel bad about themselves or their ability to learn (learn maths specifically in this case) Any teacher of a student, needs to praise a students effort as being inherently valuable as well as praising any incremental progress that is made.
2. Passion for the subject matter. Mathematics is crucial for the running of society and is also a beautiful area of human knowledge. A good tutor imparts their own passion to the student so they can enjoy maths too.
Subjects Tutored 🎓
Exam Prep 📝
- Naplan tutoring
- VCE tutoring
Tutoring students in 👦 👧
- grade 5
- grade 6
- grade 7
- grade 8
- grade 9
- grade 10
- grade 11
- grade 12
Recent Tutoring Comments:
Jamie was able to: - Find the rule of the image of a graph after undergoing a sequence of transformations - Jamie generally understood how to sketch the image ...
Jamie was able to: - Find the rule of the image of a graph after undergoing a sequence of transformations - Jamie generally understood how to sketch the image of a provided graph after it underwent a sequence of transformations
Jamie needs to: - sketch the image of a provided graph that has undergone transformations by performing the transformations in steps to ensure accuracy - Practise determining the sequence of transformations by treating x and y transfromations seperartely as we have gone through in our lesson - Practise sketching the graphs of functions by determining a sequence of transformations that takes a known base graph to the provided function, treating x and y transfromations seperately, as I demonstrated for him
Polly was able to:- help sketch the graph of y=1/x by determining what the y value would be for various values of x- see the effect of the vertical translation ...
Polly was able to:- help sketch the graph of y=1/x by determining what the y value would be for various values of x- see the effect of the vertical translation parameter- see the effect of the dilation from x axis parameter- combine dilations and vertical translations
Polly asks questions that shows she wants to be able to determine the answers to questions based on patterns in the appearance of equations/expressions, rather than their meaning. Although answering basic questions can be successfully achieved this way, doing so misses an opportunity to develop a strong theorectical foundation that can be built upon.
Valentina understood: - the concept of a sample space as all the possible (mutually) exclusive outcomes of an uncertain process - the concept of an event in ...
Valentina understood: - the concept of a sample space as all the possible (mutually) exclusive outcomes of an uncertain process - the concept of an event in probability theory as distinct from an outcome - how to obtain probabilites in finite sample spaces with equally likely outcomes by finding proportion of favourable outcomes in event - addition rule - complementary event probability - probability of two mutually exclusive things happening simultaneously
Valentina somewhat understood: - conditional probability - compound events - Pr(A and B), Pr(B) using law of total probability Valentina needs to practice compound probability questions to reinforce the multiplication rule, the law of total probablity, and the role of conditional probabilities in this context I asked Valentina to do tree diagram compound event probability questions from the Chapter 9 chapter review to reinforce these concepts
- Dan was able to correctly write down the equation of the image by inspection, in some cases
- Dan was able to correctly write down the equation of the image by inspection, in some cases
- Dan should use a reliable process for determining the equation of the image - he should write down x' and y' in terms of x and y and then solve for x and y and substitue into equation y=f(x) of the pre image to determine the equation of the image - Dan struggled to graph transformed based functions from their equation. We will revisit this in our next lesson