Michelle Tran - Online Maths Tutor
Experienced maths teacher with over ten years in UK secondary education, including three years leading the Key Stage 3 maths curriculum at The London Oratory School. Teaches GCSE maths one to one.
Years 9, 10 and 11. Michelle taught the full GCSE course for nine years. She knows which topics carry the marks and where students throw them away.
Your child sits down to do simultaneous equations and cannot get started. Often the blocker is something from Year 8. Michelle finds the older gap, fixes that, and then teaches the GCSE topic on top of it.
We publish a tutor's grade outcomes once their students have sat the exams. Michelle's are not up yet.
About Michelle
Michelle taught maths at The London Oratory School for nine years, every year group from Year 7 to Year 11. For the last three of those she ran the Key Stage 3 maths curriculum.
A Key Stage 3 Coordinator decides what order topics get taught in and writes the assessments that check they landed. Michelle did that for three years across whole year groups, reading the same data every term and seeing which Year 8 gaps turned into Year 11 problems.
She also worked with the school's Learning Support team, adapting lessons for pupils with additional needs. And she spent nine years of parents' evenings explaining to families where their child stood and what to do about it.
A Year 11 stuck on algebra is usually not stuck on algebra. Underneath it you tend to find negative numbers, or fractions, or something from Year 8 that never landed. Michelle spent three years looking at whole-school data on which of those gaps do the most damage, so she finds the real one in the first session or two.
What to expect
Sessions are one to one and online. The first one is an assessment, not a lesson. Michelle works through the whole subject to find what is solid and what is not, because teaching a topic before you know what sits underneath it wastes everyone's time.
From then on each session has one focus. She teaches topics in the order that builds on itself, which is not the order they turn up on the paper. She is straight with students about what is not working, and she makes them do the method themselves.
You get a written update covering what she taught, what your child got, what they did not, and what is next. If a plan is not working she will say so and change it.
What ten years in a maths department gives you
- She ran the Key Stage 3 maths curriculum for a whole school, so she knows what order topics need to come in.
- She has tracked whole year groups through their assessments. Ask her where your child sits and you get a straight answer, not the one on the report card.
- She taught the same students from Year 7 to Year 11 and watched which Year 8 gaps turned into Year 11 grades.
- She built lessons with the Learning Support team for pupils with additional needs.
- She is used to explaining maths to parents who do not do maths.
Who Michelle works with
Qualifications and background
Tools and resources
A few things parents and students find useful alongside sessions.
Book a free 15-minute call. Tell us where your child is and where you want them to be, and we will give you a straight answer on whether Michelle is the right fit and what the first month would look like.
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See exactly where your child is losing marks
Tell us the year group, the exam they are working towards, and what keeps going wrong. We will match your child with the right teacher and give you a straight answer on what to fix first.
- Experienced UK teachers leading every session.
- Feedback after every lesson, so you can see the progress for yourself.
- 1-to-1 from £40 a session, or £20 each if they study with a friend.
No obligation, and no pressure to book. If it is not the right fit we will say so.