I am currently a 3rd year Undergraduate studying Mathematics at the University of Leicester and studied Maths at GCSE and A-Level at QEGS in Wakefield. I am a caring, patient and thoughtful person with aspirations of becoming a Maths Teacher!

I have learnt that learning Maths can be broken down into 2 basic steps: learning and understanding the topic and then solving problems with increasing difficulty. These 2 steps are what I am going to try implement into my tutoring and something I firmly believe is what makes Maths so much more bearable.

Despite every student being different, Maths only becomes a challenge when certain causes occur, this can be the way the topic is taught or the way the student is looking at the problem and needs to find another angle to find a solution to the problem. Communication and understanding goes both ways with tutoring and I am going to attempt to push the student and try encourage them however forcing them is something that will never occur in lessons whether that is to start studying or to have a break.

When tutoring students, I will break up the session into 25 minutes of learning with a 5 minute break. I have used this personally and found that this helps keep the student concentrated. The 25 minutes of learning will be 10 minutes of going through a topic, then allowing the student to tackle questions for 10 minutes and then going through the solutions for 5 minutes with the student so i can understand their thought process and also show them where they have gone wrong and adjust any issues. The 5 minute break allows the student to relax and take there mind of the work without getting too distracted.

This works for all ages as despite the content being slightly more difficult for older ages the structure gives a good base for future study and this is a structure I use for university study.