News from Frankston High School

Maths Tutor Program

MATHS + COVID19 = TUTORING

As a result of countless lost hours of quality face-to-face teaching over the past couple of years, the Victorian Government has funded a tutoring initiative to support students in Numeracy and Literacy on their return to the classroom. We are thrilled to be able to involve all our Years 7–9 students to experience Frankston High School’s very own Numeracy Tutoring Program.

 

Once a week, Maths classes across Years 7-9 are split into smaller groups with a current and passionate Frankston High School Maths teacher. These teachers are planning engaging and relevant material to support, consolidate or extend students based on their point of need in the classroom.

 

The program has all students involved in more personal, targeted, and differentiated teaching and learning of mathematics. Teachers have seen a boost in student outcomes and student self-confidence in the classroom. Here are some feedback comments from a selection of students who are in the program.

 

Aimee Pelzer & Kate Burgess 

Assistant Maths Coordinator & Director of Maths

How do our Years 7, 8 and 9 students feel about the Maths Tutoring Program?

 

WHAT DO YOU LOOK FORWARD TO WHEN COMING TO TUTORING?

  • Every time I enter the room I get ready to learn about so many new things about math. It's very interesting session, where I learn about pi, or where words actually originated from, such as the months of the year. Every session there's either a puzzle to solve, or a new game to play! – Mary
  • All the new ways maths can be shown instead of taught – Sam
  • I look forward to getting the chance to extend myself, learn new ideas and change how I think about math. I am always excited to come to tutoring because it means that I will be able to learn a brand new thing each week. – Mitchell 

HOW DOES TUTORING HELP YOUR CONFIDENCE AND THE WAY YOU FEEL ABOUT MATHS?

  • Tutoring makes me feel more confident by showing me a lot of new things that I never knew existed. – Samuel
  • It makes seeing maths equations much clearer and easier. It has boosted my confidence with maths greatly, as well as my results with maths. – Nicole 
  • It makes me feel very confident! It reminds me that there's more to me than I ever realized. This tutoring class has boosted my confidence a lot! –Mary
  • It is helping me find answers better in a smaller group – Isabelle
  • It makes me feel smarter and helps me with understanding. – Chloe
  • It makes me think that I am good enough and that I am smart enough to go far with maths.- Josh
  • It helps me work with harder questions instead of the questions we get in class. – Violet

HOW DOES TUTORING HELP YOU WHEN YOU GO BACK TO THE CLASSROOM?

  • I am use to speaking up and sharing my answers to my other class mates – Ruby
  • Tutoring helps me when I go back to the classroom because it helps with my problem solving and I can transfer that into my learning in my classroom. – Samuel
  • It makes me feel confident because we go over things that we don't understand or missed. – Matilda
  • It is good because sometimes we are ahead of the class – Isabelle
  • I think that we are being taught the extended version of what is happening back in class so it helps a lot. – Taylor

 

IF YOU WERE ASKED, EXPLAIN WHAT TUTORING IS TO SOMEONE WHO IS NOT IN THE PROGRAM, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY?

  • I would say; The tutoring class is a new kind of subject, it teaches you more than just math! It is a very fun period, you can play so many math games, solve math puzzle, and much, much more! I would definitely recommend to you, because I promise you'll have tons of fun! –Mary
  • That it is really fun! and we play lots of games to help us understand – Isabelle
  • Tutoring is something that can help you with how you feel about math and it can help you learn new things that can help you in the future for math and make things easier. – Anonymous
  • It is a lot of fun work, we do challenges and compete against each other and have a lot fun while becoming smarter. – Jett
  • I would say how fun and enjoyable it is, but it can also be challenging if they like it. Also there are plenty of challenges to do, I feel that it gives a different view of maths and it shows the fun side of it. - Josh
  • We play maths games and learn more extended maths problems compared to the ones in class - Violet
  • I would say tutoring is a way to extend your knowledge and how it could benefit you on your everyday life – Reef