£60 an hour for a Math tutor?

Wow. The disrespect towards the teaching profession lives on.

I teach and tutor. What I can.give you is a degree and Masters in my subject, years of experience.interpreting the spec, thorough knowledge of teaching the spec, knowledge of how the spec's assessment objectives are turned into questions, how to gain and lose marks, exam time management requirements, years of being an examiner and the combined knowledge of my colleagues who have also examined, and perhaps most importantly, an understanding of specification updates and attendance at training seminars when new specifications are introduced.

I charge £35 for A Level and £30 for GCSE. I have plenty of repeat work with siblings, cousins and parental friendships. Sure, you can get cheaper but you won't get everything else.

I charge £50/hr for KS2 maths and £60/hr for 11+ prep maths in London, which is the going rate in my area.

Oh GCSE, year 10, will sit foundation paper

I’m paying £45 an hour for an experienced maths teacher - critically one who ‘gets’ DS. Wiltshire.

£60 for an "experienced" tutor, qualified teachers who taught in schools, was about the going rate last summer in London, face to face at our house and direct with a tutor. Via agency the rates were £70+.

However we didn't get along with the two "experienced" tutors we hired. One was very good but really unreliable changing the lesson day and time pretty much every week and the other English tutor was just plain useless and nowhere near 11+ standard. For the last 3 months before the exam we hired a math student from Imperial College who had been through the 11+, knew the process and was a motivated person in helping get the best out of DS. He was £30/hour face to face at our house.

You referenced 203/240 so this was the grade boundary for a 9 for Edexcel Maths. By the way, their boundaries use raw marks. 2014 wants their UMS back 🥱

you seem to not making any logical point here. What does the correlation between a grade 7 and A Level grades have anything to do with this conversation? How about grade 9 students will most likely to score A* at A Level? It does not have anything to do with this does it?

I raised the point that just because the grade 9 boundary is 85% does not mean that all grade 9 students will score just 85%. Many of them will score more than 90% or even close to 100%. They will have an excellent grasp of the syllabus.

just because you write exam papers does not mean you know anything about students’ ability to tutor or the inability of many so called teachers to teach Maths.

This is correct. I used to tutor. The hourly rate covers prep - often as long as the teaching hour itself, as well as travel time to and from the student's home, So £60 divided by 3 (one hour prep, 30 mins travel either way) minus fares is not a huge amount for one to one tuition.

Why should the prior charge more?

That’s UMS not raw scores. When you take it on a raw mark basis and correlate to topic areas, it can be that high.

2023 203/240 = 9. That’s over 15% and can easily mean some topics are completely missed. Think about a grade 8 (honestly anything below and you’d be naive to think they can tutor your child).

there’s a reason why a grade 7 GCSE (“A”) is most likely to get a C or D at A Level - so much content not understood that needs to be developed.

Also my experience is that I write maths papers for GCSE. 😄😄

the numbers do not add up here.

Many kids who got 9 at GCSE scored well above 90% and close to 100%.

on the other hand, a lot of teachers, who teach Maths, are rubbish at Maths themselves and can’t teach for toffee.

unhelpful answer but to me £60 sounds a bit steep, £30 unusually cheap. tutors have to travel between lessons & get a fair few last minute cancellations and so on

I pay £35 an hour for a maths tutor covering GCSE Higher tier. In my experience this is the average in our area, Central England.

I guess, particularly in London, there are people who are willing and able to pay a lot and if you are in a circle where that is what others pay then you would just go with it. The main difference with expensive tutors may be connections, presentation and discretion and people will be happy to pay for that too.

60 sounds like about right to me.
If you also factor in the prep they might need to do, including marking work, sourcing mock papers etc

Some online maths group lessons tutors charge around 40ph, for a group of 6-8.
That's roughly around 300ph.
Some London based 11+/13+ tutors charge 300ph for 1-1 lessons, I have heard and that too for online lessons; and there are ppl who are willing to pay that! Personally, I fail to see what they bring to the table to justify that much of money though !!

I paid a Maths undergraduate third year student £30 ph 10 years ago when my DS 2 was struggling with A level Maths. There is a shortage of Maths teachers and tutors.

We pay £30ph but actually nearer 50mins not an hour as his appointments start an hour apart and he has to travel from one to next.

I would say finding someone who fits is more important than anything. Students could work well or be awful - getting high grades is not enough. My brother got high grades but it all came too naturally and couldn’t understand how you could not just ‘see’ the answer like he could. On the other hand some teachers can also be a ‘teacher’ in tutorial sessions - almost behaving as if they are taking a class of one rather than being sufficient adaptive to the individual. Our tutor just tutors, he is not a teacher, he knows the curriculum inside out and creates a lesson on the spot each week when my dc say ‘can we cover this?’ But he might be a bit laid back for some.

Have you considered online (teams/zoom) lessons? I did this with my nephew over lockdown and started again now whilst I’m on maternity but works well over long distances (and I imagine would be cheaper)

Crikey that's a lot. I pay a recently retired maths teacher £25 per hour to tutor my DS for A level. (NW England) It's online but works fine.

My son's maths tutor was charging £25 ph 7 years ago for GCSE, I think he charges £40 now. He was great and had a good rapport with my son and it paid off,

£60 is presumably for a qualified maths teacher, and they are coming to your house so that would be more expensive too. Qualified maths tutors are in demand and can charge accordingly!

I'd agree with other posters and think that for Y8, an A-level student would be much cheaper and still helpful. Some of my A-level students tutor KS3 and they are great.

Aha that’s brilliant! Whatever works 😂

Agree with what others have said, find a sixth former who is good at maths, they will be perfectly adequate for this level and be glad to do it for a lot less. One of my sons tutored a colleague's son for GCSE level as he had top grades himself and did maths and further maths for A level. The boy got a good grade and his mother was thrilled as was far higher than he'd been predicted.

I have opposite observation. Few qualified tutors we experienced didn't have patience and skill to explain him how to do it. They were talking to 10, 11 years old as if he was 17. His A level tutor impresses him because she is pretty and he focuses well because he facies her and doesn't want to dissapoint her. 😅 He loves his lessons. She remembers her GCSE and exactly knows how to prepare him

Get an online self paced maths package from absolute maths. Cheaper yet excellent

Exactly. We are also very pleased with the girl who is tutoring my son. £15 in London is a great option. He has 2 x English writing and 2x Maths per week