About
Hi, I'm the Panda Math Tutor
One-to-one maths lessons, rewritten as PDF packs you can actually revise from.
- 6 years
- teaching/tutoring maths
- 4,000+
- lessons delivered
- Grades 10-11
- curriculum covered
Why the notes exist
I've taught math one-to-one for six years, mostly at kitchen tables and over evening video calls. After a few thousand lessons I realised I kept drawing the same explanations, and that students were photographing my notes instead of opening the textbook.
So I sat down and rewrote them properly in LaTeX: one idea per page, with the arrows and margin warnings that make a method stick when the exam starts.
The sweater
It all started on Pi Day, when my Grade 8 students burst into the classroom with a challenge: “Sir, if you love π so much, you should have a sweater to prove it!” Instead of saying no, I turned it into a project. We spent the lesson brainstorming designs, arguing over whether the mascot should be a cat, an owl, or a panda, until the panda won by a landslide, complete with cool sunglasses and two pies in its paws. One student insisted the formula A = πr² had to go right on its round belly, with the radius drawn in, “so everyone learns something just by looking at you.” A few weeks later the sweater arrived, and when I wore it to class for the first time, the room erupted in cheers.
Now, every time I put it on, I’m reminded that the best ideas in my classroom don’t always come from me; sometimes they come from twenty-odd students who just want maths to be a little more fun.
How each pack is made
I collect the questions students actually get wrong across a whole term.
I write the shortest honest explanation for each one.
I test it with real students, then rewrite whatever needed extra talking.
I typeset the whole pack in LaTeX and export it as one clean, searchable PDF.
Ready to see them?
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