Maths tutoring for Year 2 students (aged 7 and 8), taught to the Victorian Curriculum, with a free Skills Check first, a tutor who knows what Year 2 maths actually expects, and a progress note after every session.
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This page is for parents of a Year 2 student who need help with maths specifically. Below: what the Victorian Curriculum expect in Year 2, the pressure points of the year, the topics we cover, how a Year 2 maths session runs, group versus one-to-one at this age, prices and a typical week. Start with the free Skills Check and a tutor will call you.
Year 2 maths is where the number system has to make sense. Regrouping only works for a child who understands that 10 ones are a ten, and multiplication only makes sense to a child who can see equal groups and arrays. Our Year 2 sessions use materials (bundles, base-ten blocks, arrays of counters) to build those ideas and then move to written methods, so the child knows why the algorithm works and can check an answer that looks wrong.
The two skills we push hardest in Year 2 are number facts to twenty (so that addition and subtraction do not need fingers) and the 2, 5 and 10 times tables. Both are taught in short daily bursts, not marathon sheets, and both pay off immediately in Year 3, where fractions, multiplication and the first NAPLAN assume them.
The pressure point in Year 2 is invisible. There is no NAPLAN, no phonics check, and reports tend to be encouraging. But a child who leaves Year 2 without automatic decoding, without regrouping, and without the two, five and ten times tables walks into Year 3 NAPLAN and the Year 3 curriculum a step behind, and the step widens. We meet a lot of families in Year 4 who wish they had come in Year 2.
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These are the topics our Year 2 Maths tutors cover, by year level, drawn from the curriculum-aligned question banks that power the free Skills Check.
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.
A Year 2 session is an hour, one-to-one or, for a confident child, in a pair. It opens with reading aloud and a few comprehension questions, then a spelling pattern and ten minutes of writing, then maths: a two-minute facts sprint, the week's concept with materials, then written practice with the tutor watching. Every session ends with the tutor noting what is secure and sending you one thing to practise.
One-to-one is still our default for Year 2 reading, because the tutor needs to hear the child read. Maths in a pair or a group of three works well for many Year 2 children, and online is now realistic for maths if a parent sets up a camera on the page. By Term 4, a Year 2 child who is reading fluently can join a small Year 3 NAPLAN-readiness group.
For Year 2 we recommend one-to-one at $35 an hour; small groups (from $25 an hour) are available from Year 3. Across all year levels, small groups are from $25 an hour and one-to-one is $35 to $45 an hour, with VCE at the top of the range. Plans are monthly, you choose how many sessions a week, and you can cancel any time. The Skills Check and the consultation are free. Online and in-person sessions cost the same.
Here is what a typical week looks like for a Year 2 student doing Maths with us alongside school; most families run one session a week per subject, two in the term before a test or exam.
Before or alongside tutoring, your child can try our free online practice quizzes for Year 2, built from the same curriculum-aligned question banks as the Skills Check. They are short, marked instantly, and a good way to see which topics need work.
Because Year 3 NAPLAN in March assumes Year 2 was secure: fluent reading, regrouping, simple fractions, times tables. Term 4 of Year 2 is the ideal time to find and fix gaps calmly, without turning Year 3 into a cram.
Very. Reading and spelling are related but different skills. Year 2 spelling depends on learning patterns and rules, which we teach one a week and practise in the child's own writing.
We go back to materials. Regrouping makes sense once a child has physically traded ten ones for a ten and can see it on paper. Most children get it in two or three sessions once it is taught that way.
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.
One hour a week is the norm for Prep to Year 6 and is enough for steady progress if the short home practice is done. Two sessions a week are worth it for a student who is more than a year behind, or in the term before a NAPLAN test or a scholarship exam.
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