Singapore Maths Tuition - University and JC

Individual and small group maths tuition in Singapore - University and Junior College

Individual and Small Group Mathematics and Statistics Tuition in Singapore – University and Junior College level


I am a private tutor in Singapore specializing in:

Mathematics and Statistics - for University level, Junior College H2+H1, Integrated Programme (IP).

Chemistry and Physics - for Junior College H2+H1, Integrated Programme (IP).

[ Further Mathematics will be re-introduced at Junior College level as a H2 subject starting 2016. I will be able to provide tuition in Further Mathematics and have in-depth knowledge on the required topics including Linear Algebra, Statistics, and Numerical Methods. ]

I am a full-time tutor conducting individual home tuition and small group tuition at affordable rates. My students have benefited from private (one to one) home tuition. They have gained confidence tackling the difficult concepts presented to them, and have benefited from the personalized attention that one to one tuition provides.

Academic Qualifications and Private Tutoring Experience

Ph.D. in Mathematics, 2011, National University of Singapore.

B.Sc. First Class Honours in Mathematics, 2002, National University of Singapore.

Grade Point Average (GPA): 4.9 out of 5.0. Placed on Dean's List for 4 Semesters. Served as student mentor at Special Programme in Science (SPS) for several semesters.

Very Extensive experience since 2002 tutoring Junior College and Integrated Programme Mathematics, as well as Secondary School Elementary maths and Additional maths.

Experience since 2009 tutoring University Level Mathematics and Statistics - including Calculus of Several Variables, Business Statistics, Engineering Calculus, Real Analysis, Abstract Algebra, Linear Algebra, Probability, Discrete Mathematics.

Experience since 2009 tutoring Junior College, Integrated Programme, and Secondary School Chemistry and Physics.

Contact Information

Handphone: 9724-0163 (Mr Ng)
Alternatively, please Email: ngejaysuss@gmail.com

My Approach to Private Tuition

The Singapore government and various Members of Parliament have voiced concerns about private tuition. Many have highlighted the stresses and pressures students are facing at school and have wondered if we are pushing our students too hard.

I believe that having private tuition is a personal choice that the student and parent must decide on their own. My students have benefited from private (one to one) home tuition. They have gained confidence tackling the difficult concepts presented to them, and have benefited from the personalized attention that one to one tuition provides.

At school or at tuition centres, it is difficult to give each and every student such individualized, personal attention. That is where home tutors like myself come in. I strongly believe that well-qualified tutors like myself have a role to play in helping students strengthen their academic foundations and achieve better grades.

My aim is to make the learning experience a pleasant and enriching experience for all my students.

40 Singapore schools will be getting new principals next year

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21 October 2019

40 Singapore schools will be getting new principals next year, as part of the Ministry of Education’s annual reshuffle exercise.

This practice allows schools to benefit from new perspectives, and enables experienced principals to bring and share best practices across schools.

This year, 21 schools will be getting first-time principals. They include Mr Kevin Pang Chin Keat, who will head Yuhua Secondary School, and Madam Tey Kah Hwee, who will helm Cedar Girls’ Secondary.

The 40 new principals will receive their letters of appointment from MOE’s director-general of education Wong Siew Hoong, at a ceremony in December which Education Minister Ong Ye Kung will attend.

Singapore Polytechnic launches full-time diploma programme in applied artificial intelligence and analytics

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20 October 2019

From next April, students fresh out of secondary school will be able to take up a full-time diploma programme in applied artificial intelligence and analytics at Singapore Polytechnic. The polytechnic will take up to 80 students in the first batch.

Students enrolled in the programme will learn to apply AI and big data to solve challenges facing industries such as finance, information technology and commerce.

On Friday, the polytechnic also signed a memorandum of understanding with the Singapore University of Technology and Design, which will see graduates from this course, as well as those from its specialist diploma in data science programme, receive exemptions for SUTD’s Modular Masters in Data Science programme.

Students in the programme can accumulate subject credits from a series of “stackable” courses and receive a certificate from the SUTD Academy at the end.

Raffles Girls’ School is moving from Anderson Road to Braddell later this month

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18 October 2019

Raffles Girls’ School is moving from Anderson Road to Braddell later this month. All 1,600 students and 180 staff members will start school at the new Braddell campus then.

The school, which also celebrates its 140th anniversary this year, wants to reach out to its new community and be a part of it. It is already starting with seven Housing Board blocks in Braddell and Toa Payoh. RGS principal Mdm Poh Mun See said that these blocks were seen as having been most affected by the construction work over the past two years.

“The Braddell-Toa Payoh community is a lot more in the heartlands than here (Anderson Road), where there are a lot of expatriates. So we see a lot of opportunities for our girls to engage with the local community,” Mdm Poh added.

Being opposite Raffles Institution is also a sort of reunification as RGS started as a one-room department in RI at Bras Basah Road.

There will be more opportunities to share facilities and student programmes between RI and RGS, said Mrs Poh, adding that RGS is looking at an optional boarding programme for its girls at RI’s hostels, which will be gender-segregated.

Some schools are spearheading their own initiatives to make the curriculum more flexible and inclusive

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16 October 2019

Singapore students are beginning to reap the benefits of the various changes to the education system that the Ministry of Education has implemented.

Some schools are spearheading their own initiatives to make the curriculum more flexible and inclusive, and in so doing, making sure that no student is left behind.

The principal of Boon Lay Secondary, Mr Tan Chor Pang for example, has come up with a “modular academic curriculum” programme to give students the flexibility of trying subjects outside their subject combination via e-learning modules. Students can prove their competency in the subjects if they finish the modules, pass an assessment and clear an interview. They then have the option to change their subject combination permanently.

Boon Lay Secondary has been piloting the new programme for its Secondary 3 students since March. The e-modules, pegged to what is being taught in class, are open to all. Students can attempt the assessments whenever they feel ready.

The online modules also allow students to try the same subject at a higher level, or “out of stream” – a concept similar to subject-based banding, where students take subjects at a higher or lower level based on their strengths.

Son of Indonesian President Joko Widodo graduated from the Singapore University of Social Sciences recently

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16 October 2019

Kaesang Pangarep, son of Indonesian President Joko Widodo, graduated from the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) recently.

Mr Kaesang, who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in marketing with a minor in communications, was also one of three students honoured for entrepreneurship at the graduation ceremony held last Wednesday.

The awards recognise graduating students who have shown strong entrepreneurial attributes such as leadership and a “high potential for achieving a positive impact on society”, SUSS said.

Around 2,000 SUSS graduands received their bachelor’s and higher degree certificates this year.

Mr Kaesang has founded six businesses, the latest being Ternakopi, a coffee delivery brand that has raised seed money from angel investors and venture capitalists. His first start-up — established before he entered SUSS — was Sang Javas, which sold T-shirts. It was a flop, but the failure did not deter him.

During his four years at SUSS, Mr Kaesang also founded Sang Pisang, a banana fritter franchise, board game firm Hompimpagames, food app Madhang.id and restaurant site Kaetering, in addition to Ternakopi.

We must become a meritocracy of skills, not a hierarchy of grades earned early in life

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12 October 2019

Education Minister Ong Ye Kung announced earlier this year that the Government is doing away with the Normal (Technical), Normal (Academic) and Express streams. From 2024, all secondary students enrolling into Sec 1 will sit for a common examination at the end of Sec 4, but will be allowed to take a mix of subjects at three levels of difficulty G1, G2 and G3, with G3 being the most difficult. This subject-based banding system replaces streaming.

Thanks to meritocracy, a generation or two achieved upward social mobility; they became well-off parents themselves. What their own parents could not afford, they can now pour resources into, such as extra classes, to give their offspring a head start in life. But not everyone can afford such expenditure, and those who can’t risk being left behind in the academic race. A vicious circle takes root and social inequality widens.

Deputy Prime Minister and then Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said in his Budget speech in 2015: “We must become a meritocracy of skills, not a hierarchy of grades earned early in life.”

The scrapping of streaming from 2024 is a good first step. But while rules and processes impact the overall system, for any meaningful change to take place, change has to happen at the individual level.

The best thing that has come out of the latest move to scrap streaming from 2024 is to spark a discussion – at home, in classrooms, coffee shops, WhatsApp groups and workplaces – on these questions: what defines success; what kind of society do we aspire to become; and what new normal we hope to achieve in our education landscape.

Member of Parliament Mr Baey launches new portal for arts freelancers

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12 October 2019

A new resource website for arts freelancers, artsresourcehub.sg, was recently launched by Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Transport and Culture, Community and Youth Baey Yam Keng. The website consolidates resources and information in areas such as financial planning, career development and legal knowledge.

These are part of the nation’s push to develop the arts scene in Singapore, according to Mr Baey, who also mentioned that by January next year, there will be two dedicated spaces at the Goodman Arts Centre and Stamford Arts Centre for arts freelancers to hot-desk and network with each other.

Mr Baey had spoken in Parliament earlier this year during the Committee of Supply debates about enhancing professional support for independent artists, and helping them grow meaningful careers.

The National Arts Council’s director for education and development, Ms Grace Ng, said that the resource website is “the first time that such resources have been specially curated and organised with the arts community’s needs specifically in mind, and we hope the website becomes a first-stop platform for them”.

Mr Baey also cited initiatives that further improve the employability of arts freelancers. An example is how the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth and its key arts and heritage agencies have adopted the Ministry of Manpower’s Tripartite Standard for Contracting Self-Employed persons. This aims to encourage businesses to have proper written contracts, and addresses the problem of late or non-payments, and fosters fair employment conditions for freelancers.

Singapore’s growing tuition industry and the need to select the right tutor for the student

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09 October 2019

Singapore households spent S$1.4 billion on tuition, based on the Household Expenditure Survey conducted by the Department of Statistics from October 2017 to September 2018.

The growth of the tuition industry in Singapore is fuelled primarily by two factors: Increasing average real incomes of households and the desire for parents to see their children keep up with the competition.

The fact that anyone can be a freelance tutor in Singapore implies that we have a spectrum of tutors, differing in terms of quality.

There is a need to educate students and their parents so that they will be empowered to select their tutors effectively.

In selecting tutors, students should ask:

(i) Does this tutor have a proven track record?

(ii) Does he / she possess the necessary qualifications to teach the subject?

(iii) Has my appreciation of the subject increased since I started receiving coaching from him/her?

Choosing tutors based on these considerations rather than a focus on the tuition fees will enable students to select tutors who will more effectively help them.

Email Address

ngejaysuss@gmail.com

Handphone Number

9724-0163 (Mr Ng)

Academic Qualifications

Ph.D. in Mathematics;
B.Sc. First Class Honours in Mathematics