T39998

Tutor’s Teaching Background

I hold a PhD in Computer Science, where the work was mathematical rather than applied — graph grammars, formal rule-based systems, and proof-based reasoning. Alongside that, fifteen years of professional engineering has kept me working with calculus, statistics and probability rather than remembering them. For a JC2 student this close to A-Levels, my first job is finding out where the marks are actually going. H2 Maths tends to fail in a few distinct places, and they need different work: algebraic fluency that has not kept up with the content, so questions are understood but not completed; Statistics, where students who are strong in Pure Maths often lose ground because the reasoning is different in kind; techniques that are known but not fast enough under timed conditions; and presentation, where correct working loses method marks. I would rather spend the first lesson diagnosing that than assume it. Teaching background: around five years of tuition experience, including a Secondary 4 O-Level Maths class of four at a tuition centre in Yuhua CC, and 1-to-1 work with primary and secondary students. That was some years ago, so I am working through the current SEAB H2 syllabus and recent past papers so my teaching matches present exam requirements rather than my own study era. Available at Pasir Ris and can start immediately.