MATHSconceptions provides Maths Tuition for Townsville Year 7-12 High School students, in Essential Mathematics, General Mathematics and Mathematical Methods. We cater for students who enjoy doing mathematics and want to improve their grades. We also cater for students who don’t enjoy mathematics, but would also like to improve their grades. We don’t discriminate between strugglers and would be rocket scientists. We believe all students can learn to love doing mathematics, or at least not hate doing it any-more, when we help them take the misconceptions out of their mathematics.

How MATHSconceptions came about

In 2005, two mathematics students met at James Cook University in Townsville.  These students were not average run of the mill students straight out of school, eager to get their degrees finished and then on to a real job. These students were both mathematics majors and mothers, who studied Bachelor of Science degrees part-time while raising their families. These women didn’t do mathematics because it was part of their degree, they did mathematics because they loved doing it. Their names are Karen Ruhl and Anita Smith.

On graduating, Karen and Anita took on tutoring work at James Cook University to share their love of doing mathematics with other students. While pursuing further study, Karen and Anita were often forwarded emails from parents looking for mathematics tutors for their high school children. In late 2013, Karen and Anita decided it was time to share their love of mathematics with high school students as well – and MATHSconceptions was born.

Last updated 2nd January 2023