The Cambridge Tutor

After many requests, I have started a new channel for English and Literacy.
There are just a few videos on there for now - useful for pupils from upper key stage two, right through to GCSE and beyond.

Here’s a video explaining when to use ‘I’ and when to use ‘me’ in a sentence.

Subject, Verb and Object Suitable for students from upper key stage 2, including GCSE.Understanding the difference between the subject and object of a sentence is particularly helpfu...

A playlist of Halloween-themed maths tutorials on data handling.m

Data and Statistics Share your videos with friends, family and the world

Those ‘wordy’ maths problems can be confusing, especially when you’re asked to do more than one calculation to solve them.

How do you know which calculations to use? How do you make sure you answer the original question?

This playlist of free maths tutorials goes through word problems involving addition and subtraction, starting with basic one-step problems and working up to those more tricky ones that require more than one calculation.

Simple One-Step Addition and Subtraction Problems This video introduces pupils to solving 'word' probelms in maths - understanding what the question is asking you to do and which calculations you need to use...

Schools teach many methods for written multiplication, which can be confusing for parents.
This playlist of video tutorials explains the multiplication methods most commonly taught in schools.

Written Methods for Multiplication Share your videos with friends, family and the world

Everything you need to know about Multiples, Factors, Prime Numbers and more!

Factors, Multiples, Primes, Common Factors and Multiples, HCF and LCM, etc Share your videos with friends, family and the world

Many of the students I work with (including adults) aren’t sure how to use column subtraction where there are zeros. Here’s how that works …

Subtraction - Formal Column Method - 2 - WITH ZEROS This video follows on from the Subtraction - Formal Column Method 1and focuses on those subtraction calculations where there are zeros (0s) that might cause ...

Negative numbers often elicit negative reactions from pupils.
Here are some visual methods that make them easier to understand.

Negative Numbers Neagtive Numbers: what they are and how to calculate with them Corresponds to the Key Stage 2 Mathematics Test Framework Content Domain: Number and Place Val...

Many pupils (and their parents) tell me they just don’t ‘get’ algebra.

Here’s a different way of looking at the basics.

Algebra - Collecting Like Terms/ Simplifying How to collect like terms in algebra. Uses images to help students who struggle with algebra.

Lots of Place Value lessons going on in primary schools at the moment.
Here are some useful tutorial videos for children (and their parents) who need help counting on in multiples of 10, 100 and 1,000

Counting on and back in steps of multiples Counting on and back in multiples/ steps Corresponds with the Key Stage 2 Mathematics Test Framework Content Domain: Number and Place Value N1 Counting in mu...

Some fun maths tricks for half term (and not just for kids!)

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Halloween-themed maths tutorials for upper key stage 2 - reading data tables and line graphs.

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Written Methods for Multiplication Share your videos with friends, family and the world