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Maths Lessons
Online Maths Tuition
can help you achieve the results you're looking for. Learning online means that you don't have to travel to session, so can easily fit lessons around your current studies and schedule. Also you can have online lessons during your free time and even take lessons live in different (remote) parts of the country.
Benefits of online tuition:
- Online tuition is more convenient for parents and children
- Online learning is fun and engaging for children
- Children are always learning in a place of safety and comfort – their home
- Online tuition is cheaper, both in the cost of lessons and that you don’t have to travel to the tutor’s house
- Online tuition is safe and secure – tutors can be vetted professionally and all lessons are recorded
(students can record the Skype lesson) - Use of the computer and online classroom will improve technology skills for children
- Shared google drive folder with every student (exam -, homework -, revision papers, formula booklet)
Students only need a desktop computer/laptop/chrome book or tablet with Skype, MS Team
or Zoom
where I can share my screen with white/smart board. If you don’t have Skype account, I have an extra one to use.
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Typical 1 hour lesson plan will involves:
- Review last week’s homework
- On screen teaching – context, theory and practical, short test questions
- Pupil answers questions on paper
- Revise for pupil’s upcoming checkout test, or current school topic
- Set homework – web questions like SQA written past papers
I have academic experience into the design of my Lesson Plans. There are 20, one for each maths topic covering full syllabus sections of Numbers, Algebra, Graphs, Ratios, Geometry, Trigonometry and Statistics. They each follow a consistent template, built around the following key sections of a 1 hour lesson, which we go through in discussion and by touch screening to reveal the next stage.
Context:
The lesson begins with a review of the previous week’s homework. Following this there are descriptions of where the topic sits in the course (Numbers, Algebra, Graphs, Ratios, Geometry, Trigonometry, Statistics), what topic came before and what is next.
Key formulas or definitions, methodologies, golden rules, resources, typical numerical question, typical tricky problems and finally tips and hints
This involves both ensuring the basics are embedded, and discussion of the topic with the student.
Guided solutions:
I use interactive technology (Skype/Microsoft Team/Zoom with shared screen smart/whiteboard + smart pen) to reveal step by step on screen the methods leading to the solutions for at least 4 numeric and applied problems.
Finally there are few questions to check understanding, starting with the pupil talking me through the definitions and important tips in their own words, then answering some easy problems in their head. To finish the pupil will attempt a few problems on their own in writing.
Homework:
I will set homework generally from different websites and from own resources.
Exam management and Problem Solving:
Finally, I have developed a specific set of lessons on “exam management” covering golden rules for revision. These rules cover the weeks leading up to the exam, the period just before the exam, and even in the exam hall itself. An example of a tip could be: if you are asked to solve a quadratic equation in the non-calculator exam, you generally use the factorization method, whereas in the calculator exam, you should use the +/-b formula method if specific decimal places are requested. Many of these tips will be covered at school, but perhaps the pupil might miss some. I have also studied many past papers in particular the mark schemes and examiners comments and will present a list of things what "the examiners do and don’t want to see”.
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