Shambhavi's Teacher Recommended Her For Advanced Maths In Year 9

Shambhavi joined Cuemath in Year 3, starting with foundational division. Now in Year 9, she is mastering trigonometry and logarithms, which led her school to recommend her for advanced mathematics. Throughout this six-year journey, she has had the consistent guidance of her tutor, Meghna Vyas, through weekly online math tutoring.

Advanced Maths Decides Which Senior Subjects Stay Open

In Australian secondary schools, maths separates into different levels as students move towards their senior years. The advanced stream carries the harder topics, and it is what keeps the higher level senior maths subjects available later, along with the university courses that ask for them. Students are usually placed there on a teacher's recommendation, based on what they have already shown they can handle rather than on what they ask for.

Straight As Opened the Door to Advanced Maths

Shambhavi's Year 9 report came back with an A in Mathematics, alongside A grades across science, technologies and English. The year before, her school gave her its High Achievement in Learning Award. Her teacher then recommended her for advanced maths, and it will be her main maths subject from here.

Shambhavi's Year 8 award

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Advanced Curriculum Sheets And Simulations Built Each Concept First

The route from division to logarithms took six years and skipped nothing. Meghna moved Shambhavi on a step at a time, using advanced practice sheets to stretch each idea and interactive simulations to make the harder ones visible before they were abstract. A concept was finished before the next one arrived, which is why a topic several years ahead of her age reads as the next step rather than a leap.

Meghna Vyas
Cuemath Tutor

"Shambhavi joined when she was in Year 3. We started with division, and slowly started doing advanced topics. Her school also allowed her to take advanced math, and she received an academic excellence award for math. Advanced sheets and simulations helped her build concepts well.

Now she is in Year 9, but already doing advanced math like trigonometry and logarithms."

Challenging Yourself at the Right Time Is What Being MathFit Means

Division in Year 3 and logarithms in Year 9 sit six years apart. What connects them is that nothing in between was left half done. That is what being MathFit looks like: the next topic arriving as something reachable rather than something to brace for, because the one underneath it was finished properly.