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Tutoring in your own home, at your own convenience

Today's schooling typically doesn't allow any room for individual learning, which means that students who don't suit the pace of the whole class can fall between the cracks. If students aren't achieving at the level they are capable of, their learning can stall, leading to boredom and frustration. Their confidence can suffer and they won't enjoy school as much as they should.

I can help. I offer personal tutoring in a range of subjects for NCEA and Cambridge International Exams, and can provide students with the skills and confidence they need to achieve their potential.

I'm based in Auckland and will come to your home at a time that suits you, for maximum convenience and maximum learning. Because the home is a familiar environment, it's where the student is the most comfortable – this is an important part of enjoying learning.

With regard to the October 2021 vaccination directive for home-based educators, I am fully vaccinated and have had a second booster.

Ian Mander.

PS. In the last handful of years I've also been vaccinated against tetanus, diphtheria, and whooping cough – the last of which in November 2024 had an epidemic declared in New Zealand.

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14 August 2025 – Physics equations

The physics equations have been updated, and new PDFs uploaded.

10 August 2025 – Scientific calculators

I have some ideas about what makes a good scientific calculator, including that it should be as easy to use as possible without sacrificing common functions. Recommendations included!

7 July 2025 – Extra-solar object inbound

A comet-like object has been found in the solar system that originated outside the solar system. This is the third such object to be found (after 1I/'Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov), and has been named 3I/ATLAS, after the ATLAS telescope in Chile which discovered it. (The I shows it is an interstellar object).

At present the object is inbound, travelling at about 60 km/s, making it the fastest interstellar object observed. It should have its closest approach to the Sun in October, while remaining outside of Earth's orbit, and give a total of eight months of viewing.

This article from RNZ (from this ABC article) gives more info. The article also outlines the hope astronomers have for the Vera C Rubins Observatory. In just its first ten hours of operation it found 2,000 new asteroids ("new" as in "previously unknown").

10 February 2025 – Present situation

Sorry, my schedule is now full and I'm very unlikely to accept any new students.

Ian.

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