I taught many students with this agency for exams such as A-level, GCSE, National 5 and Higher Maths. Through these experiences I have established a confident tutoring style. It has been very rewarding work to help so many students get better grades and learn to enjoy maths.

I began tutoring online with this website to gain experience. I typically taught students that were in lower sets and had been referred by the school for extra support. This was a great learning experience for me to get used to tutoring in a professional setting and improve my skills. I found this job very rewarding as many of the students didn’t have any other access to 1:1 support in or out of school.

The main topic for my lesson was scale factors and I began to explain how to calculate areas and volumes of the basic shapes with the goal of demonstrating the effect of a change in cross sectional area on volume. This is a fairly routine lesson and at first sight not that interesting so understandably about 15 minutes in the student seemed partially engaged but I thought how can I make this a more memorable topic? 
I asked the student what sorts of films do you like?(hoping she would say any film that had large mythical creatures involved). She mentioned Dr Strange and Harry Potter so I talked about the scene in Harry Potter where they get chased by the giant spiders in the forest. Much to everyones relief giant spiders are actually nothing to be scared of mainly because of ... maths. The weight of an animal is proportional to its size/volume(width x height x length). The strength of an animal is roughly proportional to its bone thickness(thickness is just another word for cross sectional area(width x length). So if you took a normal spider and made it 10 times bigger its weight will increase by a factor of  10x10x10 = 1000 but its strength will only increase by a factor of 10x10 = 100. Combining this with the fact that spiders have an exoskeleton which is a weak designs of bone structure and any spiders as large as Aragog is shown in Harry Potter could be easily destroyed with the smallest of pushes as they cannot support the weight of their own bodies. With these ideas in mind the student had a much better intuitive grasp of the subject and was interested in answering more questions for the rest of the lesson. 

Notes :  This idea also applies to any large creature living on the surface of earth such as King Kong. 
For animals to be human sized or bigger they have to have a strong bone structure like we do with internal bones. 
To understand why bone strength is proportional to area think about breaking a stick. It doesn't really matter how long the stick is what makes it harder/easier to snap is the thickness(cross-sectional area). Thicker bones can support more weight than thin ones.