EzyMath2021-04-20T01:14:45+10:00Posted in All Categories, Coaching, Mentoring & Reflection, Motivation & Interest
One student (yr 11 maths) seems a little lazy with the homework I assign them. I'm not sure whether my approach and attitude when assigning homework is not correct or they are just generally reluctant to do homework. I don't want to be strict in enforcing homework ..
EzyMath2022-10-31T19:47:54+11:00Posted in All Categories, Primary School Learning, Problem Solving & Independence
I always enjoy my time with the year 3 student, we always do some good work while I'm there but I find it hard to be sharp in my questioning, to challenge him in what he is doing and really force him to actually think and develop ..
EzyMath2022-10-31T17:52:04+11:00Posted in All Categories, Motivation & Interest, Structuring Lessons
My student isn't challenging herself and lacking the motivation to do so. Right now I'm just trying to work at harder problems with her to show that she is able to tackle much more difficult questions. Are there any textbooks at a year 8 level that you could ..
EzyMath2022-10-31T19:09:29+11:00Posted in All Categories, Motivation & Interest, Problem Solving & Independence
I have one student who is having trouble concentrating. I try my best to keep him focused but he is just so disinterested that I am finding it difficult to get him to focus. Silly questions like what is 7+6 he will say 10, and asking him to ..
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 ..
EzyMath2022-10-31T18:04:38+11:00Posted in All About Exams, Structuring Lessons
One of my students, Sarah, has just performed very poorly in her exam, scoring in the 40s. We’ve been working together for a few months and it seemed to going ok but her performance was FAR below expectations. I’m not sure what to say to the client or ..
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 ..
