Alastair - Maths tutor - London

One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Alastair will be happy to arrange your first Maths lesson.

Alastair

One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Alastair will be happy to arrange your first Maths lesson.

  • Hourly rate £85
  • Response Time 5h
  • Number of students 50+
Alastair - Maths tutor - London
  • 5 (23 reviews)

£85/hr

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  • Maths
  • Statistics

PhD Maths tutor available for A-Level (incl Further Maths), GCSE and IB

Lesson location

    • At Alastair's house: London

    • Online
    • at your home or in a public place : will travel up to 50 km from London

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One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Alastair will be happy to arrange your first Maths lesson.

About Alastair

Experienced maths teacher and full-time online tutor with a 1st class honours degree and PhD in Maths. I have a strong track record in coaching students for A-Levels (Maths and Further Maths). I have been tutoring online for three years and have tutored over 5000 lessons. This has provided me with the experience to ensure that students get the most out of my online lessons.

My tutoring services include:
*Producing notes and model solutions during lessons that I email to tutees within 24 hours of the tutorial
*Setting homework that I mark ahead of the next lesson thereby providing expert feedback on areas that require improvement
*Marking exam papers and providing expert feedback based on my experience as an examiner
*Creating bespoke revision programmes for tutees and helping them prepare to cope under the exam pressure
*Analysing papers to produce predicted papers for the GCSE and A-Level exams

Qualifications:
*PGCE in Mathematics, Kings College London
*BSc (1st class hons) in Mathematics, Loughborough University
*MSc (with distinction) in Mathematics, Edinburgh University
*PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London
*DBS certified

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About the lesson

  • All Levels
  • English

All languages in which the lesson is available :

English

During a lesson I will go through a particular topic as agreed beforehand with the student/parent. Lessons are very interactive and I continuously assess students' understanding of the topics I'm teaching through questioning and evaluating their work. At the end of each tutorial I email my notes, along with homework, to the students/parents. Completed homework is then reviewed at the start of the next lesson.

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Rates

Hourly rate

  • £85

Pack prices

  • 5h: £425
  • 10h: £850

online

  • £85/h

Find out more about Alastair

Find out more about Alastair

  • When did you develop an interest in your chosen field and in private tutoring?

    I've had a keen interest in maths since I was at school. This is a passion that I've always been keen to share with others. Going into teaching gave me the opportunity to do this. While I loved every moment of teaching in the classroom, my real interest was teaching on a one-to-one basis. For this reason I turned to tutoring.
  • Tell us more about the subject you teach, the topics you like to discuss with students (and possibly those you like a little less).

    I like to teach anything that students are struggling with. There's nothing more satisfying in teaching than to find a way of helping a student master something they previously struggled with. However, my favourite topic to teach would have to be probability. I enjoy the problem solving aspect of this and the fact that no two probability questions are ever the same. My least favourite topic to teach is Construction and Scale Diagrams. This is something that really needs to be taught in person and is difficult to do online.
  • Did you have any role models; a teacher that inspired you?

    I was inspired by my chemistry teacher at school. He made an already enjoyable subject even more enjoyable.
  • What do you think are the qualities required to be a good tutor?

    Patience, organisation, a good understanding of a student's needs and, of course, good subject knowledge.
  • Provide a valuable anecdote related to your subject or your days at school.

    I started online tutoring in August 2019. At the time I believed that this was the future of private tuition and wanted to gain experience of it before it really took off. Six months later Covid happened and everyone moved to private tuition.
  • What were the difficulties or challenges you faced or still facing in your subject?

    Convincing students of the importance of doing their homework! An hour of tuition each week is wasted unless it's followed up by a student doing homework on the topic that was tutored. I always give my students homework following lessons and will expect this to be completed by the following lesson. We will then start the next lesson by going through the completed homework.
  • Do you have a particular passion? Is it teaching in general or an element of the subject or something completely different?

    My passion is helping students master something that they have had difficulty with. There are many different ways of teaching the same topic. Being able to identify a student's misconceptions and adapt my teaching to help their understanding is something that I take great pride in.
  • What makes you a Superprof (besides answering these interview questions :-P) ?

    My patience, organisation, a good understanding of a student's needs and, of course, good subject knowledge (see above!)
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