Our Adelaide year 5 maths tutors work with students on a program that aims to help them:
- to love maths
- to become confident in themselves
- to believe in their abilities
- to take on the challenges that maths presents
Working with our specialist Adelaide year 5 maths students become more confident learners by becoming proficient in:
- long multiplication
- doubling, trebling, squaring and cubing
- dividing fractions
- writing numbers up to 999,999 in words (and vice-versa)
- working with time, and problems featuring time
- area and perimeter of shapes
- adding and subtracting mixed numbers
- BODMAS
- rounding to the nearest…
- working with angles
- converting complex numbers into improper fractions and working with these
Students work in small groups of up to 6 students, and a typical maths tuition session includes:
- Welcome and brief chat about interests and activities over the past week
- Warm up activity, such as maths speed tasks, oral questions, true or false, flash cards, etc.
- Introduction: revision, discussion of concepts and discussion of exercises from worksheets
- Individual work on year level worksheets, with emphasis on working individually with students (answering, explaining, marking, encouraging, challenging each student individually)
- Summary of concepts from lesson
- Finishing fun activity (maths bingo, fraction dominoes, challenge problem, etc.)
- Positive acknowledgement of each student’s efforts, participation and progress in the lesson and suggestion for follow up before the next session