Maths Tutoring at Home in Lisboa

About our service in Lisboa

The first session is a diagnosis, not a lesson. The tutor gives the student problems from earlier years and works upwards until the point where confidence disappears, which in students who have moved countries is often well below their current grade. That is not a judgement on ability; it is the predictable result of topics being taught in different orders in different systems. Knowing exactly where the floor is turns a vague sense of struggling into a short, concrete list of things to fix, and that list is usually much shorter than the family feared. Most students who believe they are hopeless at maths turn out to be missing three or four specific things. We share it openly, because a plan that nobody understands is a plan nobody follows. The second thing we deal with is presentation, which costs more marks than most parents realise. Every exam board has its own conventions about method marks, about how much working has to be shown, and about when a calculator answer is acceptable as justification. A student who was trained in one convention and is assessed under another loses marks with entirely correct mathematics. We work with past papers and mark schemes side by side, until the student can predict how a solution will be scored before writing it. Students find this oddly satisfying, because for the first time the marking stops feeling arbitrary. The third is language. Students doing maths in a second language often stall on the wording of a question rather than on its content, and vocabulary such as gradient, rate of change or stationary point has to be built deliberately. We keep a running glossary and read question stems aloud until the translation step disappears. It is unglamorous work and it routinely unlocks a year of marks that never reflected what the student actually knew. We work Monday to Saturday, 9am to 8pm, and we are closed on Sunday.

In Lisbon, maths tutoring usually covers:

Services Included

• A first-session diagnosis that locates the real starting point
• Gap-filling after a change of country or curriculum, topic by topic
• Exam technique for IGCSE, IB and the Portuguese national exam
• Working with mark schemes so solutions are written to be scored
• Mathematical vocabulary built deliberately for students working in English

Areas We Serve

We cover the whole city: Alvalade, Areeiro, Olivais, Benfica, Lumiar, Campo de Ourique, Belém, Alcântara, Parque das Nações and Graça.

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