Math Tutoring Articles for BC Parents

Nobody panics about Grade 6 maths. That is exactly why Grade 9 comes as a surprise.

Identities are the block where Pre-Calculus 12 marks fall away. They are also the most teachable part of the course.

Ask a room of students which questions they would most like to be better at, and word problems win comfortably. The mathematics inside them is usually…

Every student in British Columbia has to write the Grade 10 Numeracy Assessment before they graduate. It is not optional, it does not belong to any…

One of the most useful things a family can hear is that a Grade 11 student finding Pre-Calculus heavy going is frequently well able to handle…

The students who struggle in first-year calculus are rarely weak at calculus. They are usually weak at the algebra underneath it.

Almost every Grade 11 math problem we see traces back to Grade 8 or 9. These are the two years where it is cheap to fix.

A student comfortable in Grade 8 mathematics comes home in Grade 9 with a mark in the sixties, and nothing obvious has changed. The effort is…

Grade 9 is the year mathematics stops being arithmetic with letters attached and becomes algebra in its own right. Students who arrive fluent find it an…

By the end of Grade 11 most BC students face a choice: Foundations of Mathematics 12, Pre-Calculus 12, or in some timetables both. It is a…