Farhan Sharif

In mathematics, the key to success is always more and more practice. That will be our goal, to get as much done as we can per session, without sacrificing understanding of concepts. The basic structure will be:

1) Look at the concepts for a given topic;
2) Work through a few examples to get to grips with the steps needed to solve problems for that topic;
3) Practice with problems, the more the better. This will ultimately come down to how much the student can handle.
4) Repeat.

We will begin with problems given within textbooks that the students have been using (please let me know which textbook(s) is/are used at your school or in your relevant curriculum) and try to finish a large chunk of the problems therein. Later on, we will expand to working through past exam papers, initially untimed. Finally, we will solve exam papers under timed conditions, reducing the time available to finish, on a regular basis to finish the paper, so that the student gains confidence in working under pressure as well.

Weekly homework's will be assigned and the students are encouraged to finish them and let me know if they had any problems with any of the assigned questions, so that we may discuss them in the next session. Students are encouraged to go beyond assigned homework’s and do more problems from the textbook(s) for their own benefit.

Regular assessments will be provided, nothing too complicated, easier problems just to check that students have been keeping up with the material and to identify gaps in knowledge or understanding.