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Jo
Manager and Curator of learning
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Category:
Maths
All of the Maths learning programmes at Athena Tutoring Services are firmly rooted within the current National Curriculum requirements and syllabuses for Key Stages 2 and 3. From these roots, all tutoring becomes tailor-made to meet your child’s individual needs.
About this Course
All of the Maths learning programmes at Athena Tutoring Services are firmly rooted within the current National Curriculum requirements and syllabuses for Key Stages 2 and 3.
From these roots, all tutoring becomes tailor-made to meet your child’s individual needs.
We begin with an exclusive diagnostic assessment where insights carefully obtained from an initial activity are triangulated with information given by the parents/carers and ideally the pupil themself.
From here, a personalised learning programme is constructed to build upon strengths whilst systematically addressing any gaps and /or difficulties.
In keeping with contemporary research into best educational practice, key previous/core learning is often revisited at the start of sessions to ensure absolutely fluency. This process enables students to make secure, accelerated progress as their learning is fast-forwarded or rewound in keeping with presenting strengths and outstanding needs.
Often minor misconceptions or gaps from earlier in the Key Stage can have a hugely detrimental effect on attainment, confidence and motivation. Happily, our tutors are highly skilled in identifying such impediments and rectifying them adeptly and supportively.
Then the bit about working with all students – mastery, SEN, gaps.
Key Stage 2
Tutoring can encompass all aspects of the Mathematics National Curriculum for Years 3-6, including progressive work in both arithmetic and/or reasoning. Alternatively, we can focus on specific core skills (for example formal multiplication and division procedures, fractions decimals and percentages, algebra – again with opportunities to combine arithmetic procedures and core knowledge and skills with ongoing reasoning, or to home in on either.
We also offer full preparation for Year 6 SATS including confidence and fluency with test format, question types and pace.
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Number and Place Value
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Addition and Subtraction
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Multiplication and Division
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Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
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Geometry
Properties of shapes.
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Geometry
Position and direction.
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Measurement
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Statistics and Data Handling
Key Stage 3 ~ Years 7
Full National Curriculum Maths coverage offered for Year 7 pupils. Alternatively, specific areas can be focused upon and taught during tutoring sessions.
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Algebra
Basic notation, sequences to the nth term, solving linear equations.
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Place Value
Place value for decimals, fractions and negative numbers, rounding, mean, median and range.
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Fraction, Decimal and Percentage Equivalence
Understanding the relationship between different number systems, interpreting pie charts.
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Directed Number
Inverse operations, square numbers and square roots, simplifying algebraic equations.
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Geometry and Measurement
Analysing 2D and 3D shapes, scale drawing shapes and angles (quadrilaterals, right angles etc.), Pythagoras theorem.
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Number Sense
Sequences using decimals, fractions, powers and roots, BIDMAS.
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Probability
Using frequency tables, grids and Venn diagrams.
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Prime numbers and proof
Prime numbers, highest common factors, lowest common multiples, powers of 2, 3, 4 and 5, proofs of equation.
Tutoring Specialisms
Our explicit focus is upon personalised, tailor-made learning programmes enabling accelerated progress directly linked to curriculum requirements.
We cater to pupils of all needs, dispositions, confidence levels, and abilities. With extensive experience in working with diverse student requirements, all staff working within the agency of ATS are able to accelerate progress and learning.
This includes providing higher levels of challenge and stretch for those seeking mastery; addressing an array of special education needs, confidence levels and dispositions to enable all to achieve to their full potential; and fast-tracking those who for a host of different reasons have gaps in their skills.
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For the most able students
In particular, we excel in enabling the most able students to engage with, enjoy and master the most challenging dimensions of English and Maths learning, directly linked to true Greater Depth and high marks/gradings.
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For those in the middle
Equally, in large, busy mainstream classes, the needs of those in the middle can all too often become overridden by the extremes of the least and most able. This can generate strength gaps in pupils’ repertoires which inevitably impacts upon future progress and attainment. As pupils transfer to secondary, any gaps in learning from KS2 can hinder successful, confident, and motivated transitions – particularly in English and Maths. Our bespoke Maths and English tutoring actively address such needs and fast-tracks both learning and motivation at Key Stage 2 and 3.
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For students with Special Educational Needs
Furthermore, our tutoring proactively encompasses students with both diagnosed and Special Educational Needs. Resources and approaches are selected and designed that best address specific learning difficulties whilst also identifying and developing underpinning strengths, knowledge, and skills.
Jo
Manager and Curator of learning