I an currently tutoring Mathematics (Foundation OCR) to a lovely eager to learn youth. I've spent many hours with him and we get on great. However he seems to be not grasping certain elements like Ratios. He does part of a past paper and I mark it. I also set him questions again from past papers on certain topics. Yesterday was Ratios................. If he did not score too well doing the first part of the past paper he was to undergo a forfeit. His forfeit was to use a Barnsley FC pen - £1 - available from Tarn - in school and profess to be a 'Red' not a plastic MUFC (which he is) but a you Reds red! On the ratios questions I marked the questions and he did not grasp the subject again - he got low marks low enough for me to put a comment against his mark as follows: 'Your head is fatter than Harry's' - if you don't shape up you'll never be Cauley Woodrow or '2357' these being the only times tables he needs to know - yesterday ratio of 3 : 9 not 1 : 3 Often I put down on the paper he's done RTFQ (Read the flippin' question) Simple question really am I Priti Patel? I am back there again tonight. And yes I do have fun!
