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IB Maths Tutors
All four courses – AA HL, AA SL, AI HL and AI SL – including the exploration.
Trial lessons are 50% off the normal rate.
Math Wizard teaches all four IB Mathematics courses: Analysis and Approaches at Higher and Standard Level, and Applications and Interpretation at Higher and Standard Level. That includes the Internal Assessment, which is worth 20% of the final grade, and Paper 3 for both Higher Level courses. Lessons cost £60–£80 per hour 1-to-1, online across the UK or in person in 17 cities.
Which IB Maths Course Should You Take?
“IB Maths” is four separate courses, and plenty of tutors will happily take AA SL and quietly avoid the other three.
Analysis and Approaches (AA)
The more traditional, algebraic route – calculus-heavy, proof-oriented, and the usual requirement for maths, physics and engineering degrees. HL adds Paper 3 and a substantial step in difficulty.
Applications and Interpretation (AI)
Modelling, statistics and real-world application. AI requires a graphic display calculator on every paper at both levels – there is no calculator-free paper in AI, which is a genuine difference from AA.
The Internal Assessment
The exploration is worth 20% of the final grade in all four courses. It is marked against criteria most students never properly read, and Criterion E is judged to a different standard at HL than at SL.
Paper 3, at HL only
Both Higher Level courses have a third paper: extended problem-solving, longer questions, less scaffolding. It is where HL students most often lose marks and the part school teaching most often runs out of time for.
What Is the IB Maths Exploration and Why Does It Matter?
Twenty per cent of the final grade sits in a piece of work with no exam pressure, months of lead time, and published criteria – and it is routinely the weakest part of a student’s result.
The usual cause is the question, not the maths. A student picks a topic that sounds impressive and turns out to have no genuine mathematics in it, or one so ambitious it cannot be finished. By the time that becomes obvious, there is no time to start again.
The fix is early and cheap. An hour spent pressure-testing a proposed question against the criteria before any work starts is worth more than five hours spent rescuing the write-up afterwards.
Exploration deadline coming up?
The IA is 20% of the grade and the part students most often leave too late. A single session on choosing a workable question early saves far more than the same session spent rescuing a bad one in February. Half price to start.
Trial lessons are 50% off the normal rate.
Who teaches your lessons
A maths specialist – someone who teaches maths and no other subject, works from the same worksheets you can read on this site, and follows the same method with every student.
You are told exactly who your tutor is before the first lesson, never after. That lesson is half price, with no contract, so if the match is not right you have lost one half-price hour and nothing else.
Fees
| 1-to-1, in person or online | £60–£80 per hour |
| Small group (5–6 students) | £40 per student per hour |
| Trial lesson | 50% off the normal rate |
The rate depends on level – A Level and Advanced Higher sit at the upper end. There is no registration fee, no minimum package, and no charge for the worksheets or materials.
Most UK tutoring agencies quote you privately. Ours are above.
Common Questions
Start with one lesson, at half price
No contract, no minimum package, no obligation afterwards.