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Hey guys, could you give me some idea why kids who are already doing very well need tutors? I can understand if a lost kid need tutoring, but when a high performing kid needs tutoring, I don't understand. For example, my niece is in selective schools and already do quite Ok, but she would never...

This is the bit that I hate about streaming the math so that people can pick easy things, did not learn the basics and forget it all by the time they get out of schools. At University some students keep pestering others, friends, ... to get help on the basics that they should have had...

Perhaps it's not modern custom, but when I was young, older kids are supposed to care for young siblings. So the older ones teach the younger ones to help them to be in the leading pack. It was family business to care for the younger kids. It's still like that in many Asian families living in...

Well, it's tough for me to comment as I was very good at math and believing that math is essential for all people. It's true that employers will not ask about your schooling. But they will ask about your University learning. And if you avoid tough subjects at University because your math is no...

BTW, try my math tests for kids grade 1-6. It's common to find that gifted kids deal with same problems like normal kids but the way problems presented to gifted kids tend to be much harder and trickier to force them to think. Most year 9-10 kids that are not good at mathematics won't be able to...

Hey, I reckon that some people are naturally good at math. But I also do not believe that it's all in the genes. A lot of it is in how you learn math when you were very young. That's the time you learn the basics. If you did not have a good teacher at that time or you did not like math at that...

arjungamer123, sure, for those who have not bothered to try hard at all, then it's not worth pushing at all. But for those who have tried hard, or feel that they are really good, they should try to get an idea how good they are. I recently had a look at year 10 school certificate math released...

BTW, I should give people some idea of the difficulty levels. At year 3 and 5 kids take the Australian basic skills tests called NAPLAN. From what I have seen, the math component of the NAPLAN is very easy. A kid who has just reached the top of this math test (top of the top band) would score...

Mathematics education in Australian primary school is just too basic. They have dumbed down the basic skill tests and the NAPLAN so much. Here are some real math tests. My kid who scored well on these mathematics tests recently got top 1% of UNSW mathematics competition and also strolled into an...