Sat at the back of my son's popular maths tuition. It was an hour of copying

hazel_veranda_851020 Aug 2026

Half his class goes to this tuition and every parent I asked recommended it. Last Saturday he forgot his notebook, I took it in, and the teacher said I could stay. Fifty-five minutes. She solved twelve problems on the board, the children copied them down, nobody asked a single question. At the end she gave them twelve similar problems for homework. His class 7 marks have gone up since he joined in June. So what am I unhappy about, exactly? Does it matter how he learns it if the marks are going up?

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amber_quilt_874323 Aug 2026
Gone up from what to what? And are his school tests mostly the textbook exercises? If they are, copying worked solutions and repeating twelve similar ones will lift marks. That's not nothing. The real question is whether he can do a problem he hasn't seen. Give him one at home this week and watch what he does.
- pebble_hammock_448524 Aug 2026
  The problem-he-hasn't-seen test is a good one. Tried it with my daughter's class 6 homework once and she told me it wasn't in the chapter so it didn't count :) Which was its own answer.