£60 an hour for a Math tutor?

ours is £90 an hour! However the tutor in question is very very well known, without being outing , so worth it imo.

There are many affordable sites out there who can give personalized and excellent coaching to your child. Try out Jaya's Academy who have 200+ tutors who are all PhDs and similar, but are compassionate and patient as per my cousin whose daughter took classes earlier with them.

I paid £60 eleven years ago for maths tutor in NW London.

My DH is a maths tutor and charges £60 ph (south east but not London). He is a qualified maths teacher and has a PHD in maths, so I’d say they’re getting a good deal! Usually only teaches A level and above though.

Being good at a subject does not make someone a good teacher. An understanding of the learning process is required.
Tutors around my area charge between £35-£50 ph

Does annoy me when people chirp up that their son is good at chemistry he can do it. Err no this my child’s gcse at stake I want a fully qualified experienced teacher in that subject and I am prepared to pay properly for that.

Any tutor or someone offering a specialised service will charge what their market will bear. Welcome to capitalism!

I pay £35 in London for maths and she’s a current secondary school teacher.

Sounds about right to me. A good maths teacher is not necessarily the one with the highest level of qualifications. At that age, it is more about engagement and developing a deeper understanding of basic maths. Too many maths graduates are hopeless at teaching at the right level as they lack empathy and experience in dealing with children that are struggling with what to them would be easy. Word of mouth is therefore much more important than bits of paper.

Are you for real? Mysoginistic because he is attracted to the opposite gender? Maybe use the dictionary to understand the term " misogynistic". What a stupid remark

To be fair I'd prefer to pay a plumber or electrician a lot less than I do but supply and demand means I can't

how much would you pay a plumber? or an electrician, or a solicitor?

poor teachers have degrees and years of experience in pedagogy but people on here want to pay them sod all.

no wonder there's a shortage of teachers when no one gives them the respect they deserve.

Our son's A level chemistry tutor charged £80 an hour, so I think £60 at KS3 is reasonable.

Yes this trend of saying Math is so annoying. Don’t care what it is in the USA, it’s MATHS here- abbreviation of Mathematics!

Seems a lot. My dd had a maths tutor for her GCSE's this year, we had one that came to the house which was £40 ph, but she didn't click with him so went to a tutor class with 4 other children and that was £34.50ph.

That’s shocking that he’s already showing misogynistic attitudes at his age!

@DEI2025 he just doesn't have time in term time - although I think he's maybe done a couple of Zooms when asked.

I don't know if having a job is not permitted, but his schedule of contact hours, labs and supervisions, on top of trying to row and socialise every now and then, within an 8 week term, means his time is very restricted.

Is the term time tutoring allowed for Cambridge undergraduates?

@Panicmode1 I’ve read your posts on the higher education board as my daughter will read the same subject… Thanks for your feedback. It’s a good point - our children are only available in between terms which reduces tutoring opportunities… I guess they also have to spare some time for homework and revisions… She’s not even started and already been sent dozens of pages of maths and physics problems to solve before she starts which will keep her busy for the best part of September!

My Cambridge (STEM) undergrad has been charging £35 an hour for in person maths and physics tuition. However, he can't do it during term time, and many parents would rather have in person lessons/continuity of tutoring so it's not been as lucrative as he hoped. Plus, this holiday he's been doing an internship which forms part of his degree, so he's not done any tutoring....

Some might just want to do some extra preparing during the holiday for the coming SMC/BMO1/BMO2, for example.

Not many students will want a tutor that can only do the job during the holiday so something to consider.

Does anyone have any recommendations for an online programme? DD has just finished maths factor with carol Vodermans which was brilliant for her through primary, looking for something yr 7 onwards. Have just had a look at absolute maths as mentioned above but open to other suggestions.

Depends on a lot of things , we paid £25 per hour for DS tutoring, but up to 3 were in her class ( same age , all doing gcse revision)

we were very happy with it , and more importantly dd was .

and as it only cost £100 per month, we paid it on payday like other bills and it made it affordable for us, even with an extremely low income

we are in North Yorkshire

Thanks all for your perspectives. I fully agree that she’s not a teacher and doesn’t have much experience, which is why she would be happy to start at quite a « low » rate whilst she builds up experience and gets feedback. £20/25 sounds like a fair amount.

The only thing I would like to add based on my experience with older children when we had to hire tutors is that like for anything else there are different levels of teachers and some of them are better than others… We’ve used a few qualified and acting teachers which were used to teaching 11-16 yo and they were absolutely hopeless at explaining more difficult A level concepts. We found that current A level teachers were quite hard to come by and ended up using students instead, still at or having finished university (though they had a tone of experience and raving reviews).