Year 8 student Zac focused on all four operations with fractions—including adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing—and practiced converting between mixed and improper fractions using real-worded examples.

For Year 9, Sam worked through algebraic expansion and simplifying brackets as well as worded questions involving percentages.

Meanwhile, Year 10 student Ella tackled trigonometry for an upcoming test by finding unknown sides in right-angled triangles using SOHCAHTOA and Pythagoras' theorem, including cases where the unknown was in the denominator.

A Year 8 student arrived to a session without their notes or workbook, which left them without guidelines for revision and made it difficult to prepare for an unexpected exam—"he left his notes and school work book at school."

In senior maths, one student was over-reliant on a calculator that sometimes gave inconsistent answers; the tutor had to supply another device.

A Year 5 learner struggled with messy working when converting decimals, confusing tenths and hundredths, as seen in "gets tens & tenths/ hundreds & hundredths confused," making errors harder to catch.

During algebra practice, skipping written steps hid sign mistakes that needed extra correction time.

A tutor in Hardys Bay noticed a Year 9 student who had been hesitant to speak up now confidently asks for clarification when tackling new algebra problems, rather than quietly guessing as before.

Meanwhile, a senior student who previously struggled with complex graphs is now using their calculator independently to recognise and interpret more advanced graph types—a real shift from earlier lessons where help was needed for each step.

At the primary level, one child recently started drawing currency diagrams on her own to solve tricky money questions after finding worded problems overwhelming last term.