Online maths tutoring for Years 1–10, live and one-to-one
One teacher, one child, one shared whiteboard. We teach the maths your child is doing at school this term, fill the gaps underneath it, and build the reasoning that exams such as NAPLAN, the OC test and the Selective test actually reward.
What we teach, year by year
Our maths classes follow the strands of the Australian Curriculum and the NSW syllabus — number, algebra, measurement, space, statistics and probability — at the level your child is working at now. Tell us the year and the school when you book, and the teacher plans from there. The same one-to-one format serves families in the USA, UK, Canada, New Zealand and India, matched to the curriculum used at their school.
Years 1–2: number sense
Counting on and back, place value, addition and subtraction facts, sharing into equal groups, simple shapes, length and time on the hour. The aim is that numbers mean something.
Years 3–4: tables and fractions
Multiplication and division facts to 10 × 10, written methods, halves, quarters and thirds, decimals for money, perimeter and area, angles, and reading tables and graphs. Year 3 NAPLAN numeracy draws on this.
Years 5–6: fractions, decimals, percentages
Equivalent fractions, adding and multiplying fractions, decimals to thousandths, percentages of amounts, order of operations, integers, the Cartesian plane and multi-step word problems — the ground the OC and Selective Mathematical Reasoning papers stand on.
Years 7–8: algebra begins
Index notation, directed numbers, ratio and rates, linear equations, plotting lines, area and volume formulas, probability as a fraction. This is where capable children often first feel lost, usually because an earlier step was never secure.
Years 9–10: towards senior maths
Expanding and factorising, quadratic equations, simultaneous equations, Pythagoras and trigonometry, surds and indices, linear and non-linear graphs, statistics with real data. We teach for understanding so Year 11 choices stay open.
Problem solving and reasoning
At every year level: reading a worded problem, choosing a method, estimating, checking, and explaining the working out loud — the skill that school tests, NAPLAN and selective-entry tests all share.
How a one-to-one maths lesson runs
Every class is live, with a real teacher and your child on a shared online whiteboard, with voice and video. Nothing is pre-recorded. A typical lesson looks like this:
- Warm-up (a few minutes). Quick questions on last week's topic and any homework that caused trouble. The teacher can see at once whether it stuck.
- Teaching the new idea. The teacher works an example on the whiteboard, step by step, then asks your child to do the next one while the teacher watches the working — not just the answer.
- Guided practice. Three or four questions that get harder, with hints only when needed. Mistakes are the useful part: the teacher traces where the thinking went wrong and fixes that.
- Apply it. A worded or multi-step problem using the new skill, so it works outside neat textbook questions.
- Wrap-up. Your child says in their own words what they learnt. Homework is set in the parent portal with a due date, and you receive a short WhatsApp note on what was covered and how it went.
Because it is one child and one teacher, the pace is the child's: a secure topic gets a short check, a shaky one gets as long as it needs.
How progress is tracked
- Homework in the parent portal. Each set is due before the next class and comes back marked with written feedback, so you can see which question types are solid and which are not.
- Practice tests. Short topic tests are set in the portal at the end of each unit; for exam preparation, timed test-style papers are added as the date approaches.
- WhatsApp updates. A message after each class tells you what was taught and what to look out for.
- Reminders. A WhatsApp reminder arrives before every class, in your own time zone, with daylight-saving changes handled for you.
What to expect in the first month
The first class is a demo class: the teacher works through questions at your child's year level and from the year below, to find where understanding is secure and where it is not, then sends a suggested plan — topics, order, classes per week — on WhatsApp. Over the following weeks the teacher closes the earliest gap first (a Year 6 child who cannot see 3/4 as 0.75 will struggle with percentages until that is fixed), then returns to the school's current topic. By the end of the month the marked homework in the portal shows which skills have moved.
Common maths difficulties and how a one-to-one teacher handles them
| What you notice at home | What is usually underneath | What the teacher does |
|---|---|---|
| "I know it, I just make silly mistakes" | Working is skipped or kept in the head; no checking habit. | Insists on written steps on the whiteboard, teaches estimating before calculating, and builds a two-second check at the end of each question. |
| Tables still counted on fingers in Year 5 | Facts were learnt as a chant, not as patterns. | Rebuilds facts from doubling, halving and the related division facts, a few per week, with short daily practice in the portal. |
| Fractions make no sense | Fractions were met as rules ("flip and multiply") before they were met as quantities. | Goes back to diagrams and number lines, then equivalence, and only then the rules — which now have a reason. |
| Word problems are a wall | Reading and maths are being done at the same time with no method. | Teaches a routine: what is asked, what is given, draw it, choose the operation, answer the actual question with units. |
| Algebra feels like a foreign language | Directed numbers, order of operations or inverse operations were never secure. | Finds the missing pre-skill by testing it directly, repairs it, then re-enters algebra where it broke. |
Maths for NAPLAN, OC and Selective preparation
NAPLAN is sat in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 each March; its numeracy test draws on the curriculum of the years before it. The NSW OC test is sat in Year 4 for Year 5 entry and the NSW Selective High School test in Year 6 for Year 7 entry; both include a Mathematical Reasoning paper of multi-step problems beyond the classroom. We teach the maths underneath these tests first, then the test style and pace. See our NAPLAN preparation, OC exam preparation and Selective school preparation pages, and the OC and Selective maths guide with worked examples. Children who enjoy maths can also work on competition-style problems from our Olympiad and Math Kangaroo practice papers.
Try before you book: our free maths worksheets for Years 1–5 and NAPLAN-style numeracy practice tests are marked online the moment your child finishes.
Also taught one-to-one: English, science and coding. For year-by-year pages, countries and exams see the online tutoring index.
Questions parents ask
Which year levels do you teach maths for?
Years 1 to 10. Tell us your child's year and school when you book; the teacher plans from the Australian Curriculum or NSW syllabus content for that year, or from the curriculum used at your school if you are outside Australia.
Is the maths class one-to-one or a group?
One-to-one. Every class is live, one teacher and one child, on a shared online whiteboard with voice and video. Nothing is pre-recorded.
How do you find out what my child does not understand?
The demo class works through questions at your child's year level and from the year below. The teacher watches the working, not just the answers, and shares what they noticed and a suggested plan on WhatsApp afterwards.
How is homework set and marked?
Homework and practice tests are set in the parent portal with a due date. They come back marked with written feedback, and anything that went wrong is gone through at the start of the next class.
Can the classes help with NAPLAN, OC or Selective maths?
Yes. We teach the maths underneath each test first, then practise the test style and pace. NAPLAN numeracy is sat in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9; the OC test is sat in Year 4 and the Selective test in Year 6, and both include a Mathematical Reasoning paper.
Are classes in our time zone?
Yes. Times are shown and booked in your own time zone, with the teacher's time beside them, and daylight-saving changes are handled for you. WhatsApp reminders arrive before each class.