Mr Andrew F.

I am Maths Teacher and tutor located in Dorking Surrey with over 25 years of teaching experience currently working full time in an award wining secondary school in Surrey. Prior to my current position I taught Maths GCSE and A-level at a leading independent school in Greater London for over 10 years. I have also tutored for over 20 years. I really enjoy helping students learn and see the rapid increase in progress and confidence that can be achieved from one-to-one tuition.

As a current teacher, crucially, I am familiar with all the changes to the syllabus for both GCSE and A-level and have the relevant materials to assist. The content has increased for both as has the type of questions. In order to prepare my students fully I ensure they have as much exposure to the problem solving style of questions in the new specification. It is hard for them to get enough of this in school time with the extra content they have to cover so this is where tutoring can be very beneficial.

I also teach and tutor younger secondary school pupils. I am always mindful of the ultimate GCSE they are gong to teach and tailor the work according to whether their school offers the GCSE or IGCSE maths exam. I can also tutor the AQA level 2 certificate in further maths.

I use my knowledge of examination board mark schemes to ensure that students present their answers in such a way as to maximise their mark. I have an excellent track record of results including one of my Year 11 classes achieving a 90% A* rate at GCSE.

In addition to my extensive mainstream experience have a specialism in teaching maths to SEN students with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia.

I can tutor online, at my house in Dorking or sometimes in the pupil's house (depending on the location - there will be an extra charge for travelling) prices shown are for in person at my house or online. I have lots of experience in online tuition and have bought the equipment to make it fully effective. Tuition can be weekdays after school or evening though I do have some limited weekend slots if preferred (also during school holidays if required). I am very punctual and reliable. I can provide materials such as past exam papers or topic specific worksheets as required. My approach is to get the student to think things out for themselves and enable them to gain confidence as they realise that they can answer questions successfully . I encourage students to tell me if, after an explanation, they still are not sure, so that I can try to explain it in a different way. My SEN experience has helped me develop multiple strategies to teach the more abstract concepts that students can sometimes struggle with.

Feedback / references from recent tutees :

"Thank you for supporting Alex over the last few months with his maths. He felt very confident with his recent statistics paper, which is encouraging. His confidence in maths has definitely grown over the last few months and he is busy revising for Y13 finals with a positive approach."

Reference from previous A-level + GCSE tutee :"Andrew has been tutoring my son, Michael, for approximately 2 years . Andrew's input has been very helpful to Michael. Andrew is always pleasant and punctual. I would recommend Andrew as a maths tutor "

Michael went on to achieve an A at GCSE and I continued tutoring him for A-level.

Darcey wrote "Just wanted to send you a quick email to let you know that I achieved an A* in maths!!! Thank you so much for all your help over the past year I could not have done it without you. "