Math tutor in the Philippines, one to one, on the DepEd curriculum the learner is taught this year: MATATAG for Kinder to Grade 9, MELC for Grade 10, General Mathematics in Senior High. A student lost in Grade 7 algebra is usually missing something from Grade 4, so the plan opens at that gap.
One tutor working with one learner on the DepEd Mathematics curriculum for their grade: finding what is missing underneath the current lesson and closing it, so this week's chapter finally has something to stand on. Sessions follow the competencies the school is marking against, and the learner's own classwork comes to the table.
Key Points
Same tutor and same plan either way: pick what fits your week
The tutor comes to you, at the table where the homework already gets done. A home visit runs at least 90 minutes: for a Kindergartner, that means a few short number-sense activities with breaks worked in across the full session; for a Grade 7 or 8 learner catching up, it is enough room to work an earlier gap and this week's chapter in the same visit. For younger learners this matters more than it sounds: the math that gets done at home is the math that sticks.
The same tutor over a shared screen, walking through each step of a problem the way they would if they shared the same table. When school itself closes for a storm, the session does not have to close with it.
The parts we can actually stand behind
The first session is diagnostic. Teaching this week's chapter to a learner missing something from three years ago is the most common way tutoring money gets wasted.
Grade 9 homework, Grade 10 homework and Senior High General Math homework are all being marked against different rulebooks this year, MATATAG, MELC and the Strengthened SHS core, and a tutor who treats them as one curriculum ends up practicing competencies nobody is scoring.
Their notebook, their worksheet, their returned test. A separate syllabus stacks a second workload on top of the first, and the first stays unfixed.
Never a batch. The hour goes on fractions for the learner who needs fractions, something a shared hour can never do.
The grade is the school's to give. The commitment here is steady work on the learner's actual gap, and free tutor replacement whenever you would like someone who explains the topic another way.
The starting hourly rate for Math tutoring is shown on this page, priced for elementary-level work. It climbs a rung once a student reaches Junior High algebra, and again for Senior High General Math. A tutor traveling to a Metro Manila address commands the top rate within a grade; a video session and a home visit outside Metro Manila both sit below it. Before any tutor is arranged, the exact figure gets put in writing, so what you see is what you pay.
The curriculum genuinely differs by year right now, so this is not one program with four labels
Counting, quantity, comparing and sorting: the groundwork that makes Grade 1 arithmetic feel obvious. Short sessions, because attention is the limiting factor at this age.
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Where the foundations are laid and where most later trouble begins. MATATAG cut the required competencies substantially, which means fewer topics carrying more weight each: a gap here is more expensive than it used to be.
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This is where arithmetic turns into algebra and proof, and also where the curriculum split lands hardest: a Grade 9 learner is working through MATATAG's slimmed-down list of competencies, while the Grade 10 learner beside them is still following the older MELC sequence, covering a different set of topics.
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Once the Strengthened Senior High School Curriculum took effect, General Mathematics stopped being something only STEM-strand students met and became part of the shared core that spans every elective cluster. A review plan still organized around a STEM-strand class list is working from a curriculum that ended in June 2026.
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Chosen after the first session, in the order that unblocks the most
This is a menu: the diagnostic picks the order. A Grade 8 learner failing algebra often spends the first weeks on Grade 5 fractions, because that is what is actually in the way.
Place value, the four operations, and fluency fast enough that it stops consuming attention needed elsewhere.
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The single most common buried gap. Almost every later topic that collapses (ratio, algebra, probability) collapses here first.
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Where math stops being arithmetic. Taught as a way of holding an unknown, which is the part that either clicks or does not.
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Shape, space and the reasoning that goes with them, including proof, which is often a learner's first encounter with an argument that has to hold.
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Reading data and judging chance: the strand that carries furthest outside the classroom, and the one most often rushed at the end of a school year.
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Usually a reading problem wearing a math costume. Worked as comprehension first, then as calculation.
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Online Tutoring
Any learner in the Philippines on a connection that can carry a shared screenA shared screen turns a video call into a whiteboard, so the tutor watches an equation take shape step by step and can catch a slip in the working before it becomes a wrong final answer. Whether the last session was at home or online, the same diagnostic-first approach carries over.
Timezone: Philippine Standard Time (UTC+8)
In-Person Tutoring
At home, pencil on paperA math tutor at the kitchen table sees every line of working as it is written. Send your address when you register, and the reply names the in-home math tutor who covers your area.
Math tutoring is asked for in four quite different situations
Grades dropping, homework taking longer than it should, and a student who has started saying they are bad at math. The work here is diagnostic before it is remedial.
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Passing, but by memorizing procedures that will not survive the next abstraction. Worth catching before Grade 7, where the procedures stop being enough.
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A quarterly exam, a Senior High entrance test, or a college entrance exam in which Math is a subtest. Short, dated, and built backwards from the paper.
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Less common, and badly served by a batch. Extension: the same hour spent going further into harder problems.
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One tutor and one learner, quoted per hour in pesos. The figure above prices elementary-level Math; the rate steps up once the learner moves up to Junior High algebra, and again for Senior High General Math. Within any grade, the Metro Manila home-visit column is the highest of the three, and how many hours a week actually closes the gap depends on what the diagnostic finds.
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₱400 / hour
| Home visit, Metro Manila | ₱550 / hour |
| Online | ₱400 / hour |
| Home visit, provincial areas | ₱400 / hour |
Per hour, one tutor with one learner. Home visits run at least 1.5 hours. Packages: 12 hours at 5% off, 24 hours at 10% off.
A Kindergartner usually needs one short session a week to build number sense; a learner catching up on an algebra gap usually needs more hours a week until it closes, which is where booking hours in a package saves the most. Once the diagnostic shows which grade's material the gap sits in, you get that rate in writing before any session is set.
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