Maths Tuition
School Students
Maths tuition is available for school students from Year 1 to 13.
Tuition takes place in small groups of up to three to ensure sufficient individual attention, or in one-on-one sessions.
A student's current Maths ability is assessed during the first session. This enables areas of difficulty to be focused on during the tuition.
Years 1 - 8
Years 1 to 8 Maths tuition follows the New Zealand Number Framework, which describes the different ways students think when solving number problems as strategy stages.
- Stage Zero: Emergent - Students are unable to consistently count a given number of objects.
- Stage One: One-to-One Counting - Students can count and form a set of objects up to ten.
- Stage Two: Counting from One on Materials - Students can join or separate sets problems by counting physical materials like their fingers.
- Stage Three: Counting from One by Imaging - Students are able to image visual patterns of the objects in their minds and count them.
- Stage Four: Advanced Counting (Counting On) - Students understand that the end number in a counting sequence measures the whole set and can relate addition and subtraction of objects to the forward and backward number sequences by ones, tens, etc. e.g. 32 + 21 = 32, 42, 52, 53
- Stage Five: Early Additive - Students recognise that numbers can be treated simultaneously as wholes or can be partitioned and recombined. This is called part whole thinking. e.g. 9 + 4 = (4 - 3 = 1) (9 + 1 = 10) + 3 = 13
- Stage Six: Advanced Additive Part-Whole - Students use a range of part-whole strategies to solve and estimate the answers to addition and subtraction problems.
- Stage Seven: Advanced Multiplicative Part-Whole - Students choose appropriately from a range of part-whole strategies to solve and estimate the answers to multiplication and division problems. A key feature of this stage is using reversibility, solving division problems using multiplication.
- Stage Eight: Advanced Proportional Part-Whole - Students select from a wide range of strategies to solve and estimate the answers to problems involving fractions, proportions and ratios.
- Number - Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Fractions, Decimals, Percentages
- Measurement - Length, Area, Mass, Volume, Capacity, Money, Time, Temperature
- Geometry - Shapes, Solids, Movement, Position, Symmetry
- Algebra - Patterns, Relationships, Equations
- Statistics - Data handling and interpretation, probability
Years 9 and 10
Working according to course outline, looking at Number, Measurement, Geometry, Algebra and Statistics.
Text books"Alpha Mathematics" (for year 9) and "Beta Mathematics" (for year 10) by David Barton.
Year 11
NCEA Level 1
- Algebraic Methods (AS90147)
- Sketch and Interpret Graphs (AS90148)
- Measurement (AS90149)
- Geometric Techniques (AS90150)
- Statistical Methods (AS90193)
- Probabilities (AS90194)
- Number Problems (AS90151)
- Right-Angled Triangles (AS90152)
- Geometric Reasoning (AS90153)
- and All Unit Standards
Text book "Gamma Mathematics" by David Barton.
Year 12
NCEA Level 2
- Algebra (AS90284)
- Non-linear Graphs (AS90285)
- Derivatives and Integrals (AS90286)
- Geometry (AS90287)
- Sampling (AS90288)
- Probability (AS90289)
- Sequences (AS90290)
- Trigonometry Problems (AS90291)
- Trigonometry Equations (AS90292)
- and All Unit Standards
Text book "Theta Mathematics" by David Barton.
Year 13
NCEA Level 3 - Calculus
- Differentiation (AS90635)
- Integration (AS90636)
- Trigonometry (AS90637)
- Algebra (AS90638)
- Geometry (AS90639)
- and All Unit Standards
NCEA Level 3 - Statistics & Modelling
- Determine the trend for time series data (AS90641)
- Calculate confidence intervals for population parameters (AS90642)
- Solve straightforward problems involving probability (AS90643)
- Solve equations (AS90644)
- Select and analyse continuous bi-variate data (AS90645)
- Use probability distribution models to solve straightforward problems (AS90646)
- Use a Mathematical model involving curve fitting to solve a problem (AS90647)
- and All Unit Standards
Text books "Delta Mathematics" (for Calculus) and "Sigma Mathematics" (for statistics) by David Barton.
IGSCE Maths (Cambridge)
- Pure Mathematics - 1
- Pure Mathematics - 2
- Pure Mathematics - 3
- Statistics - 1
Adult Students
EMT offers prep classes for:
- Tertiary Entrance qualifications
- Police Entrance Exam
- Air force Entrance Exam
- Army Entrance Exam
- Navy Entrance Exam
- Banking Industry entrance
English Tuition
Tuition for students in Years 1 to 8
This year EMT has begun working with students needing assistance with English - reading, comprehension and spelling.
Each student has made good progress.
Sarah
English Teacher
Sarah has spent over 15 years in the NZ teaching profession. Her experience encompasses the NZ classroom, private tuition, parent education and homeschooling environments with recent years focussing on teaching literacy skills. Her most recent training is through SPELD in the areas of learning difficulties. Contact Sarah direct on SdeRaat@safetynet.co.nz .
One of our students Neil Bhikka (Blockhouse Bay Intermediate), has received an Academic Star Award for