Why Year 9 science suddenly gets harder (and why it is usually maths)
Parents often tell me their child was fine at science until Year 9. Usually the science is intact and the algebra underneath it is not. How to tell the difference, and what to do about it.
Headstart: why Year 12 maths really begins in November
Victorian schools start Unit 3 content in Term 4, then students break for seven weeks and Term 1 assumes they remember it. What to actually do over summer, and what not to bother with.
Is your child ready for Year 7 maths?
Officer has seven primary schools and one government secondary college. Pakenham has a good many more. Which means that every December, a few hundred local children finish Year 6 confident in maths, and by about March a noticeable share of them have stopped feeling that way. It isn’t that high school maths is harder in […]
Methods, Specialist or General: choosing VCE maths
Every August, Year 10 students across Officer, Pakenham, Beaconsfield and Berwick sit down with a subject selection form and make a decision that shapes the next two years. Most of them make it with about twenty minutes of thought and whatever their friends are doing. It deserves more than that. Not because the wrong choice […]
What the Nossal High School entrance exam actually tests
What the Nossal Entrance Exam Actually Tests Almost every parent who asks me about Nossal starts from the same assumption: that it’s a hard maths and English test, and a student who does well at school should do well on it. That assumption is why bright students underperform on their first attempt. It isn’t a […]
High School Maths Tutor in Beaconsfield: Personalized Learning for Success
Most Beaconsfield students go on to St Francis Xavier College, and a lot of them hit the same wall at the same time: somewhere in Year 8 or 9, maths stops being something they can keep up with by paying attention in class. It isn’t usually a sudden drop. It’s a gap that opened a […]
Best Math Method in Officer for all Class Expert Guidance by PHD Tutor
Officer and Pakenham has grown fast, and the tutoring options have grown with it. Franchise centres, university students advertising on community pages, national online platforms, and people like me working locally. For a parent trying to choose, they all sound much the same in an advertisement. So rather than explain why you should pick me, […]
Maths & Science Tutoring in Officer, Pakenham, Beaconsfield & Berwick
The Cardinia and Casey growth corridor has changed fast. Officer had a few thousand people a decade ago and now has eighteen thousand. Pakenham has grown past fifty thousand. New primary schools have opened in Officer almost yearly — Bridgewood, Kurrun, Kurmile, Orchard Park — and Officer Secondary College went from nothing to a thousand […]
