Year 4 student Alex worked on adding and subtracting large numbers and decimals, as well as calculating **perimeter in measurement problems**.

For Year 9, Jasmine tackled **surface area calculations for prisms and cylinders**, applying formulas to different shapes.

Meanwhile, Year 10 student Lucas reviewed trigonometry with a focus on **solving angles of elevation and depression using real-world examples**.

A Year 4 student often left homework incomplete, particularly the second page of their maths booklet, leading to confusion with worded fraction problems.

In Year 9, one student relied heavily on having an iPad nearby during sessions—"it ends up being a bit distracting most of the time and really shouldn't be in the room if not necessary"—and forgot to bring home their assessment sheet, making it difficult to understand teacher expectations.

For a Year 11 student preparing for OLNA-style questions, reluctance to start questions meant revision time was lost at the outset instead of being spent on practice and feedback.

One Clarkson tutor noticed a big change in Ella, a Year 10 student who used to keep her ideas to herself—this week, she shared her opinions unprompted on a film's themes, something she'd avoided during previous assignments.

In Year 8 maths, Kyle has become much quicker and more accurate at solving measurement problems; when tutoring first started, he often hesitated and double-checked every answer.

For a younger student in Year 4, making division questions about money finally clicked—she now confidently works through problems independently, linking them back to real-world dollars and cents and finishing all the set questions without help.