So.. last parents evening the Maths tutor was singing the praises of my DC and his maths abilities. In all his years of teaching had never come across such a gift. I wasn't too surprised as DC loves the subject and can blast through any amount of maths and most of it is self taught. Autistic and quite the professor! Anyway he asked my permission to have him sit a past maths GCSE paper to see how got on. Today I've had an email from the tutor to say he scored 98% and his only down marks was because of not showing the working out thoroughly. Obviously I'm blown away at my 11yr old being so bloody brilliant - he enjoyed the challenge apparently. Tutor is now wanting to work towards higher A level 1:1 which would mean giving up a music lesson twice a week. I'm apprehensive about pushing him to be the best - he's very competitive by nature and whilst I'm sure he's no doubt keen he's so young!! I'd really appreciate your thoughts on this? Any past experiences in this area would be welcome. I won't lie I'm totally out of my depth here 🫣
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TeenDivided ·
12/05/2023 08:04
User11010866 · 12/05/2023 07:35
To have a tutor for math is a bad idea. I remember my DC can work out the last 25 digits of 100! himself at this age. That because he read lots of interesting math books for fun and it help his understanding of Maths.
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