What would you pay? Digital maths platform.

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I'm doing some research and would love some input from the Mumsnet community! Relevant if you have ever or would potentially invest in private tuition for your GCSE aged child(ren).

Essentially the question is what do you think a fair price is?

Myself and a few others are in the advanced stages of setting up an entirely digital GCSE maths tutoring platform. Having gained hundreds of hours of in person tutoring experience, we are moving it online to allow it to be more accessible and more affordable. It will include a combination of clear and concise video tutorials, guided workbooks and past paper walkthroughs, a community forum, weekly Q&As supplemented by social media content. The very few sites out there offering this type of thing feel dated and not remotely 'fun'! It would work as a monthly subscription for access to all content over the course of however long the students felt they needed it.

TUTOR charge £12 a month, how could you compete?

Forgive me, is TUTOR a website or an app?

https://completemaths.com/parents/families

@noblegiraffe have you used them ? Just wondering if any good.

Now that sounds like a ChatGPT response.

Essentially the question is what do you think a fair price is?

What do you think a fair price for your "research" is?

Deffo. The American spelling is a giveaway.

No, not used it myself. Mark McCourt who is behind Complete Maths is pretty impressive though, and Complete Maths is really good.

Surely if you and your colleagues have indeed accrued the very many hours tutoring online that you claim in your OP, you should well already know what the going rates are for this kind of service and therefore what to charge....

@RSintes I have put the question out there as face to face weekly tutoring is very different to a digital platform with pre-uploaded content...and there are not many, a handful at most, online platforms with any sort of decent and user friendly offering.

Many schools use software like Mathswatch or Mymaths which students can access outside of school. There are loads of smaller services out there too that target revision, past papers, videos to explain concepts - surely the benefit of having a tutor is that it’s 1:1 or small group sessions adapted to the needs of the student and not just generic. How would your offering differ from those already out there? Will you realistically be able to cover all the different exam boards at foundation and higher level?
it doesn’t matter if it’s “FUN” if it’s effective … a 16yr old doesn’t need “fun” or “trendy” if Mathswatch gives them step by step how to calculate a probability in the same way that MrMathsTeacher taught them in class!

Would not pay for this. Kids are a captive market through their schools buying in Mathswatch/Sparx. If they want to do more over and above their homework, they'll still use these platforms to get the XP, extra credit etc.

You'd be better trying to flog it to schools.

Attached is a screenshot of what appears to be the Scottish equivalent of the service you're developing. I was considering it for my daughter whose crippling social anxiety makes in person tutoring intolerable for her. I think the discounted fee of £49 for a years access to the content is a bargain compares to the in person tutoring her sister received but I doubt it's as effective.