Kaira Went From Disliking Maths To Calling It Her Favourite

When Kaira joined Cuemath in Year 4, mathematics was her challenging subject. Today, in Year 7, she considers math her favourite and genuinely enjoys solving complex problems. Throughout this transformation, she has been guided by her tutor, Kanchan, through consistent weekly online math tutoring.

PAT Compares Her Against Every Year 7 In New Zealand

Progressive Achievement Tests are written by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research and sat in schools across the country. A result comes back as a stanine between 1 and 9, which places a student against the national spread rather than against the other children in her class. Schools report it alongside the teacher's own judgement, not instead of it.

Her Math Band Sits Above Most New Zealand Year 7s

On the Term 1 test, the band marking Kaira's mathematics result sits to the right of the band where most New Zealand Year 7 students fall. Her school teacher's report from the same term describes her as a student who settles quickly to learning, completes her tasks to a high standard, and acts on the feedback she is given.

Kaira's Term 1 2026 PAT mathematics result

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Love for Math Came From Understanding The Concept

Kaira's own explanation of what changed is not about confidence. It is about comprehension. She says she understood the concepts once she had tutoring, and that is the reason she likes the subject now. The work itself was unglamorous, done on learning sheets, one concept at a time until it held. Kanchan mentions they hardly use games in class, because Kaira would rather spend the hour learning.

Kanchan Bopardikar
Cuemath Tutor

"She joined Cuemath in Year 4. Now she is in Year 7. She disliked math when she joined, and now she says she loves solving problems. Math is her favourite, and she joyfully gives the credit to her Cuemath tutor.

She says she understood the concepts after getting tutoring at Cuemath, and that is why she loves the subject now. We hardly play games, as she loves to learn all the time. Tutoring with the help of sheets helped."

How Conceptual Clarity Builds MathFit Students

Math is only intimidating when the concepts are unclear. Once tutoring gave Kaira a solid foundation, difficult questions stopped feeling overwhelming. Being MathFit means having the understanding and confidence to approach any problem head-on instead of just waiting out the clock.