Online maths tuition for primary school: which kind, and is it worth it?

Five, and they do different jobs. Two are live lessons with a teacher at a fixed time. Three your child uses on their own, whenever they like.

1. 1A live tutor, one to one. Best for a topic your child has never understood. Agencies charge the same per hour online as for a home visit: S$30 to S$90 for P4 to P6.^1–5
2. 2A live group class. Cheaper than one to one. One provider publishes S$50 for a 1.5-hour lesson of up to 4 children.⁶
3. 3Recorded lessons. Good for seeing a method again, at any time. Nobody looks at your child's own working.
4. 4Question-bank apps. Good for repetition. But nobody explains your child's own working, and nothing checks whether the correction was understood.
5. 5Practice with a tutor built in: StudyLah. Practice that teaches: Lah talks your child through the exact question they got wrong, out loud, and it comes back later with new numbers.

It teaches at the moment of the mistake, every day, for less than one hour of tuition a month. A live tutor explains once a week; a question-bank app marks and moves on.

When your child gets a question wrong, Lah, the tutor built into StudyLah, explains it out loud, in a real voice, step by step: she lights up the numbers she means, draws the bar model, and chalks the angle or the side on the figure, the way a teacher does at the whiteboard. Every wrong answer then goes into the mistake book, and Retry Mistakes brings it back rebuilt with new numbers until your child has really got it.

1. 1It adapts to your child. Each day's questions are picked from your child's weak spots and nearly-there topics, at a difficulty that moves with them, rather than a chapter list worked through from the top.
2. 2Built so children come back on their own. Lah reacts to every answer, a streak grows for showing up, a spark lights up for answers right in a row, and new looks for Lah are earned by practising. It feels like a game, and it is real maths.
3. 3You can see whether it is working. The parent dashboard, free on every plan: time spent, accuracy, every topic from new to mastered, an Achievement Level on every P5 and P6 paper (a Band for P1 to P4), and every mistake with its solution.

Lah's walkthroughs, the hints and the worked solutions are on every plan, the free one included. Premium (S$34.90 a month) adds unlimited practice, every exam paper and Retry Mistakes, and a family new to it can try it free for 14 days.

It can, when it is short, regular and tied to what school is teaching. A large review of the research, the Education Endowment Foundation's toolkit, finds one-to-one tuition works about as well with technology as in person.

Two findings matter for maths. Tuition's gains in maths are smaller than its average (+2 months for one to one, +3 months for a small group). And feedback on a child's own work gives at least as much progress as tuition, at very low cost: +6 months on average. That is the job StudyLah does every day: feedback on your child's own answer, explained.

What worked best for one-to-one tuition was short and often: about 30 minutes, 3 to 5 times a week, for up to 10 weeks, linked to the child's lessons in school.

Not for one to one: agencies charge the same per hour online as at home. A group class costs less, and StudyLah costs the least.

A month assumes one 1.5-hour lesson a week. The cost page has every rate and where it comes from.

1. 1Who will teach my child? A student, a full-time tutor, or a current or former MOE teacher. It changes the price more than anything else. A current MOE teacher needs MOE's approval to give paid tuition.¹⁵
2. 2Does it follow my child's school term? A good tutor or class teaches what school is teaching now, so the lesson and the classroom help each other.
3. 3Can we try one lesson first? Watch how your child takes to a screen lesson before you pay for a term.
4. 4How will I see progress? Ask what you will get after each lesson: the topics covered, what went wrong, what to practise.
5. 5For a centre: is it registered with MOE? Centres teaching 10 or more students must register with MOE. A tutor teaching at home does not.¹⁶

1. 1MindFlex, Tuition rates Singapore, read 20 October 2026Hourly rates P1 to P6 by tutor type; primary lessons average 1.5 to 2 hours
2. 2TutorBee, Home tuition rates Singapore 2026 (rates last reviewed October 2026), read 20 October 2026Hourly rates by tutor type; online costs the same per hour as home tuition
3. 3SmileTutor, Singapore home tuition rates 2026, read 20 October 2026
4. 4FamilyTutor, 1 to 1 home tuition rates in Singapore 2026, read 20 October 2026
5. 5Tutor City, Home tuition rates in Singapore, read 20 October 2026
6. 6DeepThink, Online PSLE math tuition, read 20 October 2026S$50 per live 1.5-hour class, weekly, up to 4 students, P5 and P6
7. 7Education Endowment Foundation, Teaching and Learning Toolkit: One to one tuition, read 20 October 2026
8. 8Education Endowment Foundation, Teaching and Learning Toolkit: Small group tuition, read 20 October 2026
9. 9Education Endowment Foundation, Teaching and Learning Toolkit: Feedback, read 20 October 2026
10. 10Club Math, Primary math tuition centre in Singapore (last updated 7 July 2026), read 20 October 2026
11. 11Bespoke Learning, Primary mathematics tuition in Singapore, read 20 October 2026
12. 12The Science Academy, Primary maths tuition, read 20 October 2026
13. 13Keynote Learning, Primary school maths tuition, read 20 October 2026Also a S$50 registration fee and a S$250 refundable deposit
14. 14Daniel's Math Tuition, Primary maths tuition cost in Singapore, read 20 October 2026
15. 15Ministry of Education, Regular reviews by MOE ensure teachers' salaries are competitive, forum letter reply, 7 December 2023, read 20 October 2026Teachers who wish to give paid private tuition must seek MOE's approval, only under specific conditions
16. 16Ministry of Education, Tuition, parliamentary reply, 6 July 2021, read 20 October 2026Centres teaching 10 or more students must register with MOE; home tutors are not covered