EzyMath2022-10-31T17:52:58+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. It is sometimes a challenge to keep going ..
EzyMath2022-08-10T19:17:21+10:00Posted in All Categories, Motivation & Interest, Primary School Learning
I’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 trying to make it ..
EzyMath2022-10-31T19:55:14+11:00Posted in All Categories, Primary School Learning, Starting Tutoring
I’ve just started with a grade 3 student. We are doing 1 hour twice per week in order to cover gaps as well as school work. It is quite hard at the beginning to decide where to start as he is very intelligent but is lacking so much ..
EzyMath2022-11-30T01:23:44+11:00Posted in All Categories, Organizing Lessons
Our daughter Georgie has been working with David for a few months now and some great progress has been made. We are thinking of taking a break over the holidays but don’t want her to forget all the work. Do you have any policies to do with holidays? A ..
EzyMath2022-10-31T16:58:43+11:00Posted in All Categories, Organizing Lessons
One of my maths students has requested that I come once ever fortnight, and I’m finding it hard to "cram" everything they have learnt in class for the past 2 weeks into an hour long tutoring session. Generally speaking having fortnightly sessions does not work. It ..
EzyMath2022-10-31T16:58:11+11:00Posted in All Categories, Relationships: Parent, Student &Tutor, Starting Tutoring
I have just started tutoring math with a new student who is quite introverted. The first lesson was a little awkward and I’m not sure about assigning homework in such a situation and how that would mix with the relationship building side of things. As far as ..
EzyMath2022-10-31T19:27:42+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 ..
EzyMath2022-11-16T21:44:16+11:00Posted in All Categories, Organizing Lessons
My student will be on holiday for 5 weeks, thus missing out on 2 weeks of term 1 and the first week of term 2. Because of this, we are trying to get her ahead in her school maths topics. However this is proving difficult as there are ..
