Mathematics

Every class runs in the same three parts, in the same order each week, so your child knows what is coming and nothing gets skipped.

• Review, marked together

  Last class's work is marked with your child rather than for them. Seeing why a mark was lost teaches more than the mark does.

• One new idea

  Built from something they already trust, rather than handed over as a fresh rule to memorise.

• Hard questions, out loud

  A few difficult questions worked through together and talked aloud, so the thinking is heard, not just the answer seen.

• Short work between classes

  Twenty to thirty minutes. Long homework sets get copied or abandoned; short ones get done.

The Mathematics is the same everywhere; the examiners are not. We practise against the paper your child will actually sit, with that board's past papers and mark schemes.

• IB

  Analysis and Approaches expects reasoning explained in words and a graphical calculator used properly.

• Cambridge (IGCSE/A-level)

  IGCSE splits into Core and Extended and is strict about significant figures and units; A-level adds Mechanics and Statistics on top.

• US Diploma + AP

  The Diploma is graded on coursework across the year; AP Calculus AB and BC come down to one timed paper whose free-response half is marked on justification.

• CBSE

  Rewards a clearly set out standard method, and penalises missing steps.

• CISCE (ICSE/ISC)

  Asks for more Geometry and more proof.

• NIOS

  A CBSE-shaped syllabus sat on the candidate's own schedule, which changes the revision plan more than the Mathematics.

A good share of the students on this page are here for Maths because of Physics. From Grade 9 the two stop being separable.

• Motion is graphs

  Velocity is the gradient of a distance–time graph, and distance is the area under a velocity–time one.

• Electricity is proportion

  Ohm's law is a straight line through the origin, and reading it is a ratio question.

• Every answer needs indices and units

  Standard form, rearranging and units have to be automatic before the Physics can be the hard part.

• One plan across both

  With the same teacher for both subjects, the Maths a Physics topic needs is taught just before it, rather than two tutors each assuming the other has covered it.

See the Science curriculum →

For students who find the school syllabus easy and are bored by it, there is a separate track of Olympiad-style problems. It runs alongside school work rather than replacing it.

• Number theory

  Primes, divisibility and remainders, where a clever argument beats a long calculation.

• Combinatorics

  Counting without listing — paths, arrangements and the patterns hiding in Pascal's triangle.

• Geometry beyond the textbook

  Constructions and proofs that need an idea rather than a formula.

• Alongside, not instead

  School topics stay on schedule; the harder problems are the stretch on top.