<p>Shellz- speaking as a former remedial math student who had to take a mandatory calc class before grad school- DON’T focus on what he’s getting wrong on tests. Ask the tutor to work on concepts from the ground up. I had a lifetime (or at least grades K-end of college) of teachers showing me what I was doing wrong, and never got my math problems “fixed” until my remedial calc teacher stopped worrying about what I was doing wrong, and taught me what the concepts were, how to frame the problems, and THEN how to solve them.</p>
<p>The outer limits of my math ability appeared to be “dummy trig” in HS but guess what- I ended up in a quant heavy grad program and did fine once remedial math did its thing. Too bad I couldn’t have done it in HS instead of grad school…</p>