Number sense, fractions, algebra and problem solving, taught to the Victorian Curriculum, with a free Skills Check first so we start where your child actually is. Live online from Melbourne, in Singapore time.
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Australian families in Singapore most often come to us for Maths, because it is the subject where curriculum differences show up fastest. Here is how our online Maths tutoring (Prep–Year 10) works from Singapore: the teaching approach, the curriculum topics, local session times, A$ pricing and answers to common questions.
Singapore is the largest Australian expatriate hub in Asia, with families in banking, law, technology, logistics and regional head offices living around Holland Village, Bukit Timah, the East Coast and Sentosa.
Maths is the subject where gaps compound. A Year 8 student who cannot add fractions confidently will struggle with algebraic fractions in Year 9, then with rational functions in Year 11 Methods. That is why every RHZ maths student starts with a free online Skills Check pitched at the top of their year level, not the middle: we want to see which of the year's topics are secure, which are shaky, and which earlier-year skills (times tables, place value, negative numbers) are quietly holding them back.
Our tutors teach to the Victorian Curriculum, the same document your child's school plans from. In primary, that means a heavy emphasis on number: counting and partitioning in Prep and Year 1, regrouping in Year 2 and 3, multiplicative thinking and fractions from Year 3 onwards, decimals and percentages in Years 5 and 6. Many of the students we meet in Year 5 or 6 are still counting on their fingers for basic facts, so we rebuild automaticity first: short daily practice, not worksheets of 100 sums.
In Years 7 to 10 the curriculum moves fast: integers and algebraic expressions in Year 7, linear equations and indices in Year 8, surds, trigonometry and linear graphs in Year 9, then quadratics, simultaneous equations and the first taste of VCE-style problems in Year 10. Our secondary sessions follow the school's sequence so that tutoring reinforces class, but a tutor will step back a year whenever the Skills Check shows the foundation is missing. Year 10 is also where we prepare students for the Methods versus General decision, so they choose from strength rather than fear.
A typical session runs for an hour. The first ten minutes are retrieval practice on the previous week's skills, the middle thirty-five to forty minutes are new teaching and worked examples with the tutor watching the student work (not just marking), and the last ten minutes are a short check that the student can do it alone. After every session you receive a plain-English progress note: what was covered, what is secure, what is next. Homework is small and specific, usually ten to fifteen minutes a night.
Small-group sessions (three to five students of a similar level) are the most popular option for primary and junior secondary maths because the price is lower and students often work harder alongside peers. One-to-one suits students who are a long way behind, a long way ahead, or anxious about maths. Both are available at our Truganina centre and online, and the tutor, the Skills Check and the reporting are the same either way.
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These are the topics our Maths tutors cover, by year level, drawn from the curriculum-aligned question banks that power the free Skills Check.
Keeping pace with Australian year levels is the first thing Singapore families ask about. International curricula are excellent but they are not the Australian one: topics come in a different order, algebra starts earlier or later, and the persuasive and analytical writing that Australian schools assess from Year 3 is often not taught at all. Our tutors are Victorian-curriculum trained and plan every session from the Australian year level your child will step back into.
The second reason is the return. A family that comes back to Australia for Year 9 or Year 10 is walking into the run-up to VCE in Victoria or the HSC in New South Wales, and a family aiming at a selective-entry school (the Victorian selective-entry exam is sat in Year 8; New South Wales tests in Year 6) needs a child who is a year ahead, not a year behind. We prepare overseas students for all of that from Singapore, including scholarship and selective-entry preparation on the same timeline as our Melbourne students.
Third: there is no NAPLAN in Singapore. Australian children sit NAPLAN in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9, and overseas families lose that benchmark completely. The free Skills Check is the closest thing to it: an online diagnostic pitched at the top of the Australian year level, built on a bank of 5,900 questions from Prep to Year 12, with a topic-by-topic report the same day. Most overseas families use it annually and before any return.
Singapore families are usually well informed and competitive; their question is less whether their child is behind than whether they are far enough ahead to sit a selective-entry or scholarship exam on return.
Our Singapore students come from Australian International School Singapore, which follows an Australian-curriculum program, and from UWCSEA, Dover Court International School and Tanglin Trust School. Whatever the school, the tutor works from the Victorian Curriculum and the VCE study designs.
A 6pm session in Melbourne is 4pm in Singapore (3pm once Melbourne moves to daylight saving), because Singapore is 2 hours behind Melbourne while Melbourne is on AEST and 3 hours behind Melbourne on AEDT. Singapore is on Singapore Standard Time, UTC+8. Melbourne is on AEST (UTC+10) until 3 October 2026 and AEDT (UTC+11) from 4 October 2026 to the first Sunday in April. The slots below are the ones Singapore families most often book, with the child's local time in both Melbourne seasons.
| Melbourne slot | Singapore time (Melbourne on AEST) | Singapore time (Melbourne on AEDT) |
|---|---|---|
| Weekday 6pm (Melbourne) | 4pm | 3pm |
| Weekday 7pm (Melbourne) | 5pm | 4pm |
| Weekday 8pm (Melbourne) | 6pm | 5pm |
Tell us the days and times that suit your child and we will match a tutor to them.
The Skills Check is free, online, and works from Singapore exactly as it does from Truganina. Your child does 10 to 15 minutes of questions pitched at the top of their Australian year level, drawn from a 5,900-question bank covering Prep to Year 12, and you receive a topic-by-topic report the same day. A tutor then calls or video-calls you for a free consultation to walk through it. Families overseas repeat it every year as their substitute for NAPLAN and once more before any move home.
There is no card and no commitment. If the result shows your child is on track, we will say so; if it shows a gap, we will tell you exactly which topics and suggest a plan.
One-to-one online tutoring is A$35–A$45 an hour by year level; small online groups of up to four are from A$25 an hour. Prices are the same as for families in Melbourne; there is no international surcharge. Plans are monthly, you choose the number of sessions a week, and you can pause or cancel any time, which matters for families in Singapore who travel over the northern summer.
Payment is in Australian dollars and international Visa, Mastercard and American Express cards are accepted; your bank converts at its own rate. The Skills Check and the consultation are free.
Our Australian-curriculum practice papers are sold as instant PDF downloads and work anywhere in the world: buy from Singapore, print at home, and mark against the included answers. They cover primary maths and English, Years 7 to 10 maths, NAPLAN-style reading, writing and numeracy for Years 3, 5, 7 and 9, and VCE topic tests. Many Singapore families use them alongside tutoring, or on their own between Skills Checks.
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Singapore is 2 hours behind Melbourne while Melbourne is on AEST and 3 hours behind Melbourne on AEDT. A 6pm weekday session in Melbourne is 4pm in Singapore (3pm during Melbourne daylight saving). We schedule in your local time, confirm the Melbourne equivalent in writing, and adjust automatically when either side changes clocks.
Both. The Victorian Curriculum is Victoria's implementation of the Australian Curriculum for Prep to Year 10, with the same content sequence, so a child in Singapore who is returning to any Australian state is covered. For Years 11 and 12 we tutor to the VCE study designs; ask us about HSC or other state courses and we will be honest about fit.
Yes, and it is one of the most common reasons Singapore families contact us. Australian schools place students by age and year level regardless of what an international school has covered, so we run a Skills Check as soon as the move is confirmed, focus on the Australian topics the current school has not covered, and hand the new school a clear picture of where the child sits.
Only through a registered VCE provider: a Victorian school, Virtual School Victoria, or an overseas school that offers the VCE. RHZ is not a VCE provider and cannot enrol students, but we tutor VCE subjects to students who are enrolled, and we prepare Year 10 students in Singapore who will start VCE on their return to Victoria.
Usually yes, because most students who hate maths actually hate feeling lost in class. Once the Skills Check shows us the two or three missing skills and the tutor rebuilds them, the class work starts making sense again and the attitude follows. We do not push extension work until the confidence is back.
Both. We plan from the Victorian Curriculum, so the topics line up with your child's school. Within that we follow the Skills Check result: if a Year 7 student cannot yet do fractions, we fix fractions before we touch algebra, even if the class has moved on.
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