Experienced Maths tutor (former teacher at the Royal Grammar School Guildford and All Hallows’ Farnham). Studied Maths at Bristol University.
Warm supportive manner focusing on confidence-building and maths mastery.
22/05/2022
Watch this if you’re interested in groundbreaking approaches in education - love her or hate her, Katharine Birbalsingh is making waves and having an impressive impact on kids’ lives! 🤓
Britain’s Strictest Headmistress Episode 1 Katharine Birbalsingh is happy to be labelled Britain’s Strictest Headmistress.
Just had my first day tutoring at Guildford County School (COVID catch up sessions) which went really well. Lovely students and staff! 🥰
Pearson Edexcel have today issued FREE GCSE revision resources for Higher and Foundation papers. Check it out here under “free topic tests”
10/02/2022
KS2 SATS past papers are available here if you want to do any practice with your kids... Mark schemes are also an interesting read, e.g. when workings lead to extra marks etc. http://satspapers.org/ks2maths2016onwards.htm
How do you calculate the area of a triangle? Not sure? Well watch this clip...
Do you know your arcs from your chords, your sectors from your tangents? Let me show you in this mini maths lesson...
04/02/2022
Know someone in need of an extra boost for their GCSE maths revision? I'm holding daily revision sessions via Zoom over the half term holiday.
02/02/2022
Do you know your prime numbers from your composites? (Primes have only 2 factors). Is 91 a prime number? Let the Sieve of Eratosthenes work its magic and show you! P.S. It's pretty hypnotic... 👀
Sieve of Eratosthenes - Wikipedia It does so by iteratively marking as composite (i.e., not prime) the multiples of each prime, starting with the first prime number, 2. The multiples of a given prime are generated as a sequence of numbers starting from that prime, with constant difference between them that is equal to that prime.[1]...
Today's mini-maths lesson is on Roman Numerals. "We never had to learn these in my day!" But they're a Year 4 essential these days. Test Yourself: What's DCLIV worth?
Today's mini maths lesson = inverse operations. Solving one-step equations couldn't be easier - just use inverse operations - I'll show you how...
Today's mini maths lesson is on algebra - collecting like terms. Do you know your apples from your bananas, your a's from your b's? Test yourself: 3a + 2ab + 2a + 5ab = ??
Today's mini maths lesson = Adding fractions