IB and IGCSE maths tutor jobs

Mathematics generates more requests than any other subject on the platform, and it is also where we most often cannot find anyone suitable. The reason is not a shortage of people who are good at maths. It is that the IB restructured its mathematics offering into four distinct routes, and most tutors have genuinely taught only one or two of them.

Add IGCSE's tiered structure on top — Core and Extended on Cambridge, Foundation and Higher on Edexcel, plus Additional Mathematics for stronger candidates — and the number of genuinely distinct courses a maths tutor might be asked for is large. A tutor who claims "IB and IGCSE maths" without specifying is usually competent in a subset and will be found out in a demo class.

So the value here is in specificity and in breadth. Be exact about which routes and levels you can teach, and if you can honestly cover several, say so — because that combination is scarce and it is what fills a timetable fastest.

• The most requested subject on the platform, in every programme
• Four distinct IB maths routes, plus IGCSE tiers and Additional Maths
• Breadth across routes is scarcer than depth in any one
• No joining fee, no subscription, no exclusivity

You set your own fee and we publish it unchanged. Mathematics sits at the top of the rate range in most markets precisely because the supply problem is real, and Analysis and Approaches at Higher Level is the single best-paid thing you can teach on this platform. Rates climb further from January as the May session approaches.

Our share depends only on mode. Home tuition is split 50-50 for the first month with each new student and is then 100% yours for as long as you teach them. Online is a flat 70/30 in your favour, every month, with no reduced first month.

One pattern specific to maths is worth knowing: students very often want a second subject from the same tutor, usually Physics. If you can teach both, that is one engagement at your combined fee with no extra travel and no extra slot — the most efficient thing available to you here.

• Maths AA HL is the best-paid single course on the platform
• A ₹20,000/month HL home student pays you ₹10,000 in month 1, then ₹20,000
• Online at ₹1,800 an HL class × 10 classes = ₹18,000, of which ₹12,600 is yours
• Maths plus Physics for one student is one engagement at your combined fee

At IGCSE, mathematics is tiered. Cambridge runs Core and Extended; Pearson Edexcel runs Foundation and Higher, with a Further Pure option that goes beyond what Cambridge Extended covers. Schools decide entry, usually late in Year 10, and the decision has consequences well past the exam.

The Core tier caps the attainable grade, typically around a grade 4 or C equivalent. That is often enough to satisfy a school-leaving requirement, but it can close off IB Mathematics Analysis and Approaches at Higher Level and A-level mathematics entirely. A student placed on Core in Year 10 may find at sixth-form selection that the route they want is no longer open.

You will be asked about this, and you should answer honestly. The most useful thing a maths tutor does in the first month is form a clear view: is this student an Extended candidate who is simply behind and can be caught up, or a genuine Core candidate for whom Extended would produce a worse outcome than a strong Core result? Both answers are legitimate. Hedging is what leaves a family making the decision blind.

Additional Mathematics is worth mentioning because it is a small, well-paid niche. It is taken by stronger candidates alongside Extended as a bridge to A-level or IB Higher Level, it covers genuine pre-calculus material, and almost nobody tutors it. If you can, list it.

• Cambridge: Core and Extended. Edexcel: Foundation and Higher, plus Further Pure
• Core caps the top grade and can block Maths AA HL and A-level maths
• Form a clear view in month one and tell the family plainly
• Additional Maths: small volume, very few tutors, good rates

Maths is the subject where online teaching is hardest to improvise, and the reason is simply that mathematics is written rather than spoken. You cannot explain a substitution verbally at the speed a student needs to see it, and a mouse is far too slow to write with.

So a shared writing surface is not optional in practice. A graphics tablet is the usual answer and an inexpensive one transforms what you can do — you write naturally, in colour, and the student watches the working appear at the pace they can follow. The alternative is a document camera pointed at paper, which some tutors prefer precisely because students see a hand writing at a natural speed and the setup is closer to sitting beside them.

The other half of it is getting the student to write where you can see. A student working on paper off-camera is a student whose mistakes you cannot see, and in maths the mistake is the entire diagnostic information. Insist they work on the shared surface, or on paper held up to their camera, every time.

One IB-specific point: graphics calculator technique is directly examined, and marks are routinely lost on it by students who understand the mathematics perfectly. Being able to screen-share a calculator emulator, or at minimum to talk a student through the exact keystrokes on their own model, is a differentiator worth having.

• A graphics tablet or document camera is effectively required for maths
• Make the student work on the shared surface — their errors are your diagnostics
• GDC technique is examined directly and loses marks for able students
• Send the annotated working plus two practice questions after every class