Maths tutor jobs: teaching maths at home and online through NXTutors

You choose the classes you take, the localities you can reach, whether you also teach online and what you charge for each class. Families see your fee before they meet you. Nothing on this page promises a number of students: the requests that reach you depend on where you live, what you teach and which families happen to ask.

In Classes 1 to 5 the job is number sense: place value, the four operations, times tables learnt with understanding, then fractions, measurement and simple word problems. Parents of young children want a patient tutor who uses objects, drawings and number lines before symbols. A Class 4 child still counting on fingers usually needs firmer number facts, not another page of drill, and a good tutor can say so in the first lesson.

Classes 6 to 8 are the bridge to algebra. Integers, fractions and decimals, ratio and percentage, and then letters standing for numbers all arrive here, and gaps from these years resurface in Class 10. One or two sessions a week spent closing those gaps and building neat, step-by-step setting out is the usual shape of the work.

From Class 9 the pace jumps: proofs in geometry, polynomials, coordinate geometry and statistics, followed by the Class 10 board paper. In Classes 11 and 12 the syllabus turns abstract (sets and functions, trigonometric functions, limits, calculus, vectors, three-dimensional geometry and probability), and a specialist is worth having. For JEE students who attend coaching, the home tutor's role is usually clearing doubts from coaching sheets and rebuilding the weakest chapters.

CBSE maths is built on the NCERT textbooks, and board papers stay close to NCERT examples, exercises and exemplar problems, with case studies, assertion and reason items and application problems in real-life settings. In Class 10 a student sits either Standard or Basic mathematics, so ask which one before the demo. CISCE's ICSE syllabus covers more ground, including GST, banking, shares and dividends, matrices, loci and reflection, and its papers reward complete working. ISC maths in Classes 11 and 12 needs a tutor who knows its sections and choices well.

IB Diploma students take Analysis and Approaches or Applications and Interpretation, each at Standard or Higher Level, and both include the mathematical exploration as internal assessment. You may coach the method, but the exploration must stay the student's own work. Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics has a Core and an Extended tier; past papers and mark schemes are central to preparation. State boards vary in chapter order, paper pattern and marking, and some teach in regional languages, so a tutor who knows recent papers for that board is the right match.

The demo is your first class with the family. It is free for them, and it should be a normal lesson on the topic the student is doing in school this week, not an interview or a talk about your results. Ask the parent beforehand for the class, board, a recent test paper and two weak chapters, so you can prepare something specific.

Parents are told to look for a tutor who asks a few questions before explaining, lets the student hold the pencil for most of the hour, spots one particular slip in the working and explains why it is wrong, can explain an idea a second way, knows how step marks are awarded on that board, and ends with a plan for the next four to six weeks. If the family decides another tutor fits better, they can switch at no cost to them; treat that as part of how matching works rather than a verdict on your teaching.

A family's request carries the class, board, maths topics or exam in focus, their area, preferred days and times, home or online, and a budget range. For home classes we look nearest first: tutors who live in that area, then tutors who list it as somewhere they travel to, then the wider zone and the city, with online tutors after that. From that pool we shortlist two or three, and the family sees each tutor's fee before the free demo. Verified tutors are shown first.

You set your fee per class, and the family sees it on your profile before the demo, so there is no bargaining after a good lesson. Across NXTutors, most home-tuition sessions fall between ₹800 and ₹2,500 an hour; Classes 11–12, IB/IGCSE and JEE/NEET sit toward the upper end; specialists for IB HL or JEE Advanced can charge more.

Be precise on your profile. Instead of writing all maths, list the classes and courses you have actually taught: CBSE Class 10 Standard and Basic, ICSE Class 9 and 10, ISC, IB Analysis and Approaches HL, IGCSE Extended, JEE Main. Add the localities you can reach on a weekday evening, say whether you teach online and how students will show their working, and give the hours you have free. A clear profile means the requests that reach you are ones you can teach well.

Tutors who join go through an ID check: you confirm your phone or email with a one-time code and upload a government photo ID, which our team reviews before the profile is marked Verified. Tutors who pass carry a Verified badge. It confirms identity only; it is not a police or background check. The full steps are on How we verify tutors. Joining is free, and the Free plan includes 160 lead credits a month; paid plans on /pricing are optional extras, never a fee to apply for a tuition.

Home classes suit younger children, students who drift on a screen, and anyone whose handwritten working needs close watching. Online suits specialist needs such as IB HL, ISC, JEE or olympiad problem-solving, students far from a suitable tutor, and late or weekend slots. Hybrid plans, one home class plus online sessions for doubts and tests, work when the same tutor runs both.

NXTutors does not run its own video classroom. You and the family agree the call and whiteboard tool before the demo, and the class link goes to a number or group the parent can see. For maths, the deciding detail is that you can watch the working line by line: a shared whiteboard with a stylus, or the student's phone clamped above the notebook as a second camera. Without that, you are marking answers rather than teaching.