Chris Ward

I believe that every student is different and requires a personalised teaching style suited to meet their individual learning style. During our first lesson we will use our time to talk about your specific goals, and then go over some simple questions to practice, so I can assess your current level and learning style. From there we can take things at your pace. Not spending too long on the things you find easy, gradually introducing things you find more challenging, revisiting these topics in future lessons, and weaving in tasks that stretch your conceptual understanding as we go.

A usual lesson would last an hour. Starting with 10-15 mins of fun warm up exercises based on what we have looked at during the previous lesson to refresh what we did before. The next 10-20 minutes we would go over a particular area of maths that you'd like to develop, discussing ideas, and looking at low-stakes worked examples. Once that's all completed, we will spend the rest of the lesson either consolidating what we have learned with practice questions, or revising another area of maths/looking at past papers. This is just a guideline however, I have a very flexible and person centred approach to teaching, adapting each lesson to meet the desires and interests of a given student on a given day.