Neighbour's son helping my DS with maths - how much should I pay him?

[vickyw11]

I've asked my neighbour's son to help my 13 year old son with one particular topic in maths. Neighbour's son is currently doing A level maths and I thought he would be a good person to ask.

I expect it to take about a hour. How much should I pay him?

£7.50?

£15

About £10 I reckon. £20-25 going rate for a qualified teacher; £7ish about right for a babysitter.

I think £10 sounds right.

My daughter was given £10 for a two hour stint just babysitting, so I think the same for an hours tuition would be fair.

£10 would be fair I think

Depends on how well you know him. When I was at uni I helped my friend's little brother with his a-level for an hour a week for 8 weeks. His mum gave me four ferrero rocher. I kid you not. I didn't mind though - I enjoyed helping and I love ferrero rocher. You might get a bargain!

I would say a tenner.

We've always paid 6th formers £10 an hour for GCSE help.

My son tutors a girl for GCSE maths. He has to prepare the lessons and gets £15ph. To be honest he could have asked for £20. If no preparation £10-£15ph is fine.

i think £10 an hr is way too much

Wow, I pay £25 an hour for a NQT to come once a week to my year 8. She does no prep work, just sits and goes through DD homework and anything else my daughter says she found challenging this week in maths (although TBH not that much of late) Thinking about stopping it but worried if I do, might regret it later.

Interesting thread as my DS1 has expressed interest in earning some money doing Maths tutoring.

He is in Y11 and got A* GCSE in Year 10 , he also plans to do Maths and FM A level so Maths is his thing. Doesn't mean he'd be a good teacher of course.

I wondered whether parents would be willing to let an untrained teenager tutor but I guess if he charges £10 and a proper tutor charges £20 - £25 ....

I would but, as well as the saving, I'd expect him to:

1. Understand the syllabus of my child exam paper - remember he will most likely be tutoring a borderline candidate who will be sitting a different type of question than he did.

1. Appreciates the new functional element to the exams

1. Can explain (some clever mathematicians can just do it and so actually explaining might be difficult )

4 can appreciate that some children don't just remember everything - so the next week he comes they may have forgotten everything that went on last week! Need to plan work, so that doesn't happen.

SecretSquirrels it depends on what the parents want - if its just someone to go through a few topics that haven't been understood then a teenager who has an aptitude for Maths who is just a couple of years ahead is fine. If its anything more complicated than that then a more experienced tutor would be better and your DS would probably be out of his depth.

DD2 did some maths tutoring when she was in the sixth form (she's in her first year at university studying maths) but she has discovered from it that she doesn't want to be a maths teacher!

Very good points webwiz and Kez.
I think I will get him to practise on DS2 who is 2 years younger and not as quick at Maths. If he can patiently teach his little brother that would be a good indication.