Math Help at Your Fingertips

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Math Help at Your Fingertips
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There are some subjects that are particularly
suited to online tuition, languages, writing
studies, and mathematics being the most popular.
For an adult trying to improve themselves, or
more often a child needing extra guidance, there
are many options, but once that decision to go
ahead with taking a tutor is made, how does
online math tutoring work?
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• Finding a provider
• The first step is finding someone to do the
  tutoring. This is manly done through tutor
  companies, who offer multiple different tutors,
  usually a proprietary interface for the actual
  work and a range of tailored packages. It is
  important here, especially if this is for a
  childs tutoring, to make sure the provider fully
  vets the tutors they use, not just in terms of
  their ability within the subject but background
  checks as well.

Happily there are several reputable companies
offering all of this in numerous subjects, with a
number that specialise in maths tutoring
exclusively.
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2. The Assessment Once you have chosen a
provider, or even a shortlist, the next step is
to see what they propose the student needs. This
is done through an assessment, where the student
is quizzed not just on their ability with maths
as a subject, but also an overview of their
attitude to education in general, the subject
itself and often outside interests.
This is used to not just propose a tailored
learning plan, but to match a student with a
suitable tutor who can connect with them better.
This is normally a free service and a good way of
moving from a shortlist of three or four
providers to finding the one best suited to the
students requirements.
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3. The study plan Here the provider and yourself
agree on a plan to take the student through to
the desired goals, obviously at this point the
volume of sessions and length of study will also
be reflected in the overall cost, so it is at
this point budget does come into the negotiation.
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4. Tuition The actual tuition can take a few
forms, individual providers tend to use different
methods and online interfaces, but broadly there
are two categories. Real time and delayed. Real
time tuition is when the student and the tutor
are online together, and work through a lesson
plan with the student asking questions and the
tutor answering and guiding as the lesson
progresses, usually through a form of instant
messaging software within a proprietary
interface. Delayed tuition is the situation where
the tutor and student are not necessarily online
at the same time, the student can leave questions
for the tutor, who answers them at a convenient
time, with the student then collecting the answer
at a later point.
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