Tutors in Pennant Hills include an HSC Dux and Olympiad awardee, a robotics mentor with multiple national titles, experienced private tutors and peer mentors, accomplished music and creative writing coaches, a Master of Teaching candidate, science medalists, seasoned primary specialists, and Extension Mathematics high achievers with ATARs up to 99.3—all passionate about supporting K–12 learners.
Our daughter has been matched with a tutor who matches her personality very well. We are hoping that this will encourage her and give her the confidence in her Maths class when school starts this year as well as her other classes as her confidence grows. After getting an E on her report card at the end of 2017 for Maths, hopefully the only way is up!Rebecca, Pennant Hills
Year 4 student Rose worked on identifying the numerator and denominator in fractions representing shaded areas, as well as using division to find fractions of whole numbers.
Year 9 student Kate focused on rearranging linear equations into general form and finding the length of a line segment given coordinates, also briefly reviewing indices.
Meanwhile, Year 10 student Rosie practised solving trigonometric problems involving sine, cosine, and tangent ratios—including angle of elevation—and started learning how to convert degrees to minutes and seconds.
In Year 4, one student often answered maths questions without fully reading them, which led to frequent mistakes—"if he believes he understands what a question is asking he will answer it without reading the question fully." This pattern caused avoidable errors, even on familiar content.
In senior years, another student forgot to bring homework multiple times and struggled with organizing materials for both algebra and finance tasks; this meant missing out on targeted feedback before assessments.
Meanwhile, in Year 10 algebra, messy written work—particularly skipping steps when rearranging equations—increased confusion when reviewing solutions later.
In each case, progress was slowed as time was spent re-explaining or retracing steps instead of moving forward confidently.
One Pennant Hills tutoring session saw a Year 10 student, Michaela, set out her trigonometry working much more neatly than before, which helped her independently spot and fix small errors in cosine rule problems.
In Year 9, Kate has started recalling and applying surd laws from previous lessons without prompting—she even managed several new questions using these rules on her own.
Meanwhile, a younger primary student, Shehzad, who used to get distracted easily and wait for reminders, is now catching himself after drifting off and returning to his maths tasks with minimal prompting; last week he explained place value concepts up to five digits almost flawlessly.
