GCSE
You may want ongoing support with GCSE Maths, or just a few sessions of exam preparation. Maybe you are re-sitting exams in November or June to improve your grade. There may be specific reasons why you find Maths difficult, which we can work on together. You may need support understanding topics and answering questions, or you may be aiming for Grade 9 and need to focus only on the most challenging questions. Either way tuition will be tailored to the work you need to cover and the way you learn best. Please contact me to discuss your tuition needs.
Tuition may include:
- Finding out how you learn best
- Using your strengths
- Building your confidence
- Increasing your understanding and skills
- Going over work covered in class
- Catching up on work missed
- Teaching whole topics
- Focusing on the confusing bits
- Practical activities and/or maths games
- Calculations (add, subtract, multiply, divide)
- Fractions, decimals, percentages
- Ratio and proportion
- Algebra
- Geometry
- Graphs
- Statistics
- Identifying the right method for the question
- Problem-solving
- Showing your working out
- Non-calculator methods
- Calculator methods and shortcuts
- Making links between topics
- Analysing and tackling the hardest questions
- Looking ahead to A-Level (or AS) maths
- The Maths you need, in the ways that work best for you
Preparation for exams may also include:
- Revision lessons on specific topics
- Making sense of exam questions
- Using your revision time efficiently
- Exam strategies
- Understanding mark schemes (to help you revise independently)
- Analysing your answers to help gain more marks
- Working under pressure of time and exam conditions
Where we work, and what to bring with you:
- Tuition in the student’s house
- I can travel up to 5 or 10 miles depending on timing
- Tuition in my house
- Half a mile from Merry Hill Shopping Centre
- Maths room at front of house
- Online, via Zoom
- Shared whiteboard, various resources
- Bring whatever you would take to a maths lesson at school or college
- Calculator (not on your phone), maths equipment, pen/pencil, ruler, paper
- and anything else you’ll need in the lesson
- And any specific work or questions you want support with
Help with other courses (National 5, IGCSE or other subjects…)
- IGCSE Maths
- Functional Skills Maths Level 2 or Level 1
- National 5 or National 4 Maths (taken in Scotland)
- GCSE Maths Numeracy (mostly taken in Wales)
- I can also help with the Maths needed for GCSE Sciences
- Looking ahead to A-Level (or AS) Maths
- Or…?
- Let me know what Maths you need, and we’ll find a way to do it!
Don't Panic!
- I have worked with students of all ages who were afraid of maths; hence the name “Maths – Don’t Panic!”
- Increasing your confidence with maths, and lessening the fear, will help you learn more easily as well as making maths lessons more comfortable.
- Finding out how you learn best, including how you think, can be an important part of this.
- I have long experience with neurodiversity (including my own), and with specific learning difficulties.
- Everyone is different so it makes sense that we learn in different ways. There are many reasons for these differences, and many implications for the learning of mathematics.
- These factors don’t stop you learning maths; we just need to work in the ways that suits you best.
- If you are an experienced learner and already know the best ways for you to learn, just tell me!
- If you’re still exploring how you learn, or if you’ve never thought about it before, we can work on this together as part of the tuition.
- You can find out more about the factors affecting maths learning on the “Neurodiversity” page.
GCSE Maths
Exam Dates
2026
Thursday 14th May
Morning
Paper 1 (non-calculator)
Wednesday 3rd June
Morning
Paper 2 (calculator)
Wednesday 10th June
Morning
Paper 3 (calculator)
IGCSE Maths
Exam Dates
2026
Thursday 14th May
Morning
Paper 1
Wednesday 3rd June
Morning
Paper 2
Contact Information
Frankie Griew
I am based in Brierley Hill in the West Midlands (near Merry Hill shopping centre).
I offer tuition:
- In the student’s house – I am happy to travel up to about 5 or 10 miles depending on timing
- In a dedicated room in my house
- Online – using Zoom, a shared online whiteboard space, and a variety of resources
Individualised tuition: the maths you need, in the ways that work best for you.
Please contact me to discuss your tuition needs.