Richmond Tutoring provides 1-to-1 online KS3 maths tutoring for students in Years 7, 8 and 9 across the UK. Lessons follow your child’s own school curriculum and focus on the topics holding them back — number and fractions, algebra, ratio and proportion, geometry and problem solving. Every lesson is taught by a specialist maths teacher. Parents usually start with a free 45-minute KS3 maths lesson, and decide afterwards.
Richmond Tutoring offers 1-to-1 online KS3 maths tutoring for Years 7–9 across the UK, following your child’s own school curriculum rather than an exam-board specification.
Every child starts somewhere different. We build the tutoring around their gaps, goals and progress.
KS3 Maths covers a lot of ground, and a small gap in one topic makes the next one much harder. We work out where your child is actually getting stuck — fractions, algebra, equations, geometry or something else — then build lessons around their schoolwork, current level and pace.
At KS3, maths starts moving beyond straightforward calculations. Your child needs to understand why a method works and know when to use it. We work through the reasoning behind algebra, ratios, percentages, graphs and geometry so they are solving problems rather than simply copying steps.
The aim is for your child to feel the difference when they sit their next school test. We practise the skills they need to work accurately, explain their reasoning and tackle unfamiliar problems, while building the mathematical foundations they will rely on throughout GCSE Maths.
Each KS3 student and their parents have different expectations. These are the most common ones we help achieve.
My child has fallen behind and I do not know where it started.
We find how far back the gap goes — often two years further than the topic causing trouble today — and close it from there, in order. Bring whatever school set this week — homework is often the fastest way to see where the understanding stops.
She says she is just not a maths person.
Confidence starts to return when a child can finish a hard question without help. One-to-one matters here: nobody is watching, and no question is too small to ask.
He does fine until the test, then it falls apart.
Schools set their own KS3 assessments and use them to group students. We work on the topics those assessments actually test, and on finishing a paper calmly.
He can do the method but not the worded questions.
Problem solving is a core part of KS3 maths. Students learn to tackle multi-step questions where the method is not immediately obvious and has to be chosen.
She is doing fine, but she could be doing better.
A different job again: extending beyond what the class is doing, working on reasoning and proof-style questions, and building depth rather than speed.
I want him ready for GCSE, not scrambling in Year 11.
Securing the algebra, number and reasoning that GCSE assumes, while there is time to do it without a deadline in the way.
Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9 are three different jobs. What a tutor works on changes with each one.
Secondary school brings new concepts, new expectations and a faster pace.
Year 7 maths tutoring goes back to the KS2 work the new course quietly assumes — fractions, decimals, percentages, negative numbers — and makes it automatic before algebra is built on top of it.
Then a Year 7 maths tutor teaches each new topic in the order the class meets it, so nothing is missed and nothing is rushed.
Year 8 is where understanding has to turn into fluency.
Year 8 maths tutors work on the topics students find hardest — algebra, equations, ratio, geometry and probability — until a method is reliable rather than half-remembered.
It is the year to secure the Year 7 foundations, because Year 9 will assume every one of them.
Year 9 is the bridge between KS3 and GCSE maths.
Year 9 maths tutoring closes what is still open from Key Stage 3 and starts on what GCSE takes for granted: fluent algebra and harder multi-step problems.
Some schools begin GCSE content here and others finish KS3 first, so we follow your child’s own sequence.
26%average improvement in assessment scores
KS3 has no national exam, so we measure progress against your child’s own school assessments and the work we mark in lessons — where a student started with us, against where they are now. It is an average across our KS3 students.
Key Stage 3 is the first three years of secondary school in England — Years 7, 8 and 9, typically ages 11 to 14. It covers the mathematical knowledge and skills students need before moving on to GCSE.
In England, KS3 follows the national curriculum, rather than a GCSE exam-board specification. Schools organise that curriculum into their own schemes of work, so the order in which topics are taught differs from school to school. We follow your child’s school curriculum and adapt lessons to what they are learning in class.
For students elsewhere in the UK, we follow their school’s curriculum and year group in the same way.
There is no national end-of-KS3 maths exam in England. Schools use their own assessments and classwork to monitor progress. Our lessons work alongside that system, focusing on the areas your child needs to understand and improve.
The KS3 maths curriculum includes:
Three steps, and you meet the tutor in a real lesson before deciding anything.
Fill in the form or send us a WhatsApp message. We arrange the free demo class and match your child with a specialist KS3 maths tutor.
Take the free 45-minute lesson, and sit in if you want to. See how the lesson goes, ask us everything you want to ask, and only go ahead with KS3 maths lessons if you are convinced.
Lessons begin, weekly. Your child starts learning the KS3 maths they were stuck on, and that shows up in their class work and their school tests.
At Richmond Tutoring, the price for each 60-minute lesson of maths for KS3 is as follows:
£36per hour
KS3 is a stage in its own right. Get it right and GCSE readiness follows, rather than the other way round.
Students who develop strong mathematical foundations during Years 7 to 9 enter GCSE maths with a stronger base to build on.
KS3 does not need to feel like a race towards GCSE. It is the time to get the fundamentals right.
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KS3 maths is the maths taught in the first three years of secondary school. In England it follows the national curriculum rather than an exam-board specification, and it covers number, algebra, ratio and proportion, geometry and measures, probability and statistics, alongside mathematical fluency, reasoning and problem solving.
Years 7, 8 and 9 — ages 11 to 14. Key Stage 3 ends at the close of Year 9, when most schools move into the GCSE course.
A KS3 maths tutor works one to one with a student in Years 7 to 9, finds the gaps underneath whatever is going wrong now, and teaches the topics their school is covering in the order the school is covering them. At KS3 there is no exam to coach for, so the job is understanding and confidence rather than exam technique.
No. In England, KS3 follows the national curriculum and each school writes its own scheme of work from it, so the order of topics differs from school to school. That is why we ask what your child is covering in class right now. For students elsewhere in the UK, lessons are adapted to their school’s curriculum and year group.
£36 for a 60-minute 1-to-1 lesson, the same as every other level we teach. There is no placement fee and no contract — you pay per lesson and can pause whenever you like. The first 45-minute lesson is free.
Judge any tutor, including us, against the same list: do they teach secondary maths every week rather than all subjects to all ages; can they diagnose the underlying gap rather than re-explain tonight’s homework; do they know the national curriculum and adapt to your child’s school; do they tell you what happened after each lesson; and does your child actually respond to them. The last one is the only one you cannot check on a website, which is why the first lesson here is free.
For this age group it works well, provided it is genuinely one to one. A shared whiteboard shows the working appearing in real time rather than a finished answer, the lesson is recorded so it can be watched back, and there is no travel either side. What matters more than the format is whether the tutor diagnoses the gap or simply helps with homework.
Usually the pace and the abstraction. KS3 moves faster than KS2 and introduces algebra, where a letter stands for a number and a method has to be reasoned out rather than remembered. A child who got through primary maths by being quick and careful can stall the first time that happens. It is extremely common and it is fixable.
Yes. GCSE assumes the KS3 algebra, fractions and ratio are already automatic, so a gap left at KS3 costs marks for the next three years. That said, KS3 is a stage in its own right — the aim is understanding the maths properly, with GCSE readiness as the consequence rather than the purpose.
Yes. Every lesson is online and 1-to-1, so KS3 maths tutoring is available wherever you are in the UK — there is no travel and nothing depends on how far you live from us.
Most of the families we teach are in and around south-west London, and we also teach students across the rest of the UK. Places our students come from include Twickenham, Whitton, Hampton Hill, Richmond Hill, North Twickenham, Isleworth, Osterley, Hanworth, Ashford, Kew Bridge, Turnham Green, Acton, Ealing Common, Barons Court, Shepherd’s Bush, Ham, North Sheen, Kingston upon Thames, Tolworth, St Margarets, Teddington, Hampton Wick, East Twickenham, Fulwell, Hounslow, Brentford, Feltham, Chiswick, Kew, Stamford Brook, South Acton, Hammersmith, Fulham, Brook Green, Petersham, East Sheen, Surbiton, Wimbledon, Strawberry Hill, Hampton, Richmond, West Twickenham, Heathfield, Hounslow West, Syon, Sunbury, Gunnersbury, Grove Park, Bedford Park, Ealing, Ravenscourt Park, Parsons Green, West Kensington, Mortlake, Barnes, Hampton Court.
A real lesson, one to one, with a specialist KS3 maths tutor — free, before you decide anything. Tell us the year group and the school, and we will tell you honestly whether we can help.