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The team

People who know Math. And how to explain it.

At most centres, the tutor's personality decides the quality. At Genius Plus Academy, the system does. Every teacher is trained to deliver the GPA Method precisely, teaching from the same in-house materials. What you meet here are the people who built that system, and who teach it every day, led by founder Mrs Eileen Toh.

100+

learning materials authored in-house

8+

years refining the GPA Method

Multiple

branches across Singapore

Mrs Eileen Toh, founder of Genius Plus Academy

Mrs Eileen Toh

Founder & Curriculum Architect

  • Former MOE teacher
  • Master of Education (M.Ed), NIE
  • B.A. (Hons) Education, NIE
  • Author of the in-house curriculum, 100+ learning materials

Founder & Curriculum Architect

The teacher who wrote the method.

Mrs Toh's teaching is structured, methodical, and deeply focused on helping students understand the logic behind Mathematics rather than arriving at answers by guesswork. In her class, students quickly learn that the rush to the answer is usually the problem, not the solution.

She is a former MOE teacher with a Master of Education from NIE. She founded Genius Plus Academy in 2017 on a simple belief: that every child can excel in Mathematics when it is explained well. She is also the architect behind GPA's entire curriculum, the 100+ proprietary textbooks and workbooks taught in every class. It is a system, built over eight years, encoded into everything taught here.

"First understand the question. Break it down. The moment you get that part right, you're already halfway there."

The framework her students never forget

The Before-Change-After approach

One of Mrs Toh's most recognised tools is her Before-Change-After approach to word problems, taught with a simple analogy her students never forget: a burger.

Before

The top bun. What was the situation at the start?

Change

The patty. What actually happened?

After

The bottom bun. What is the result?

Once students learn to identify these three parts, complex word problems become far more manageable. It is one of dozens of structured frameworks built into GPA's materials.

A key part of her teaching is training students to read between the lines. She helps them spot hidden clues: time markers like "at first" or "after", constant quantities that never change, and numbers placed deliberately to mislead careless readers.

She is also particular about mathematical presentation. Students are trained to label quantities carefully, distinguish old totals from new ones, and use correct notation when rounding. These habits may seem minor, but in an exam they are often the difference between full marks and unnecessary loss.

"Don't rush. Ask yourself first, what changed, and what did not change?"

Her classroom is warm but disciplined. Students know they can ask questions freely, and they also know they will be challenged to think carefully and work systematically. As a mother of four boys, she understands what parents worry about, and she brings that same care to every student.

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Ms JS Lee, Head of Primary Math at Genius Plus Academy

Ms JS Lee

Principal Tutor · Head of Primary Math

  • B.Sc. (Hons)
  • Head of Primary Math
  • 6+ years teaching experience

Principal Tutor · Head of Primary Math

Ms JS Lee

Ms Lee's classroom is energetic, interactive, and fast-paced. Lessons move with constant participation: rapid drills, hands-on practice, immediate feedback. Students are rarely sitting quietly for long. They are calculating, answering, checking their work, and improving their speed.

She specialises in building strong procedural fluency. Rather than lengthy theoretical explanations, she focuses on clear, repeatable steps that students can apply confidently under exam conditions. Every method is broken down into specific, manageable actions, and those actions are repeated until they become automatic.

"Quick math. Let's go. Start from the ones place first."

Method

What a Ms Lee method breakdown looks like

  • Start from the ones place.
  • Put the carry on top.
  • Add a zero for the second row.
  • Write the working clearly, every step.

By repeating these steps regularly, students develop the accuracy and confidence to handle larger calculations without hesitation. The method stays the same; the numbers get harder.

Her teaching also emphasises efficiency: cancelling zeros before dividing, splitting numbers into easier parts, and avoiding unnecessarily large working. Students solve problems faster and make fewer mistakes because they are working smarter, not harder.

Ms Lee is known for her lively teaching style. She keeps students engaged with quick remarks and good-natured humour when mistakes happen, but always follows up immediately with clear guidance on the correction. She is also firm about one thing in particular:

"If I don't see the working, no marks."

She runs live lessons on TikTok that regularly attract large numbers of students attending voluntarily. When a class is that engaging, something is clearly working.

Principal Tutor & HOD Primary

Ms Arina Rauf

Ms Arina Rauf is Principal Tutor and Head of Department for Primary, and she also serves as Head of Publications and Curriculum Specialist. She holds a B.Sc. (Hons) and was a top scorer in her own PSLE cohort.

She is the kind of teacher who makes students feel like they actually know what is going on. Her lessons are calm, structured, and very guided. She does not throw information at students and hope they catch it. She walks them through each concept step by step, constantly helping them connect today's topic to what they have already learned.

"Remember what we did last week? It's the same idea. Just applied in a different way."

That ability to link concepts across chapters is one of her defining strengths. In Mathematics, many students struggle not because they cannot do Math, but because they treat every topic as a brand-new world. Ms Arina teaches them to see patterns, reuse methods, and build confidence by recognising familiar structures in unfamiliar problems.

Her teaching is also notably exam-aware, in a practical way. She highlights key phrases, trains students to pay attention to how questions are worded, and reinforces the specific definitions and method steps that tend to appear in tests. Alongside her classes she works on the in-house materials, so what she teaches and what she writes stay in step.

In the room

Small checks Ms Arina uses to keep thinking active

  • "Do you remember what this is called?"
  • "Can you identify what the question is asking for?"
  • "You can highlight this. This wording is important. Later you'll see why."
  • "Okay, now we compare."

These prompts are not pressure. They are small nudges to keep students actively following the logic rather than passively watching it.

Students who learn with Ms Arina tend to become more organised in their thinking. When something is new, she does not overcomplicate it. She builds it up progressively, starting simple and adding detail only when students are ready.

Particularly well-suited for

Students who need clarity, structure, and connection, particularly those who feel lost when topics change, or who understand better when ideas are explained in a calm, step-by-step way. If your child's current experience of Math is "everything feels disconnected," Ms Arina's teaching is often the reset they need.

Ms Arina Rauf, Principal Tutor and HOD Primary at Genius Plus Academy

Ms Arina Rauf

Principal Tutor & HOD Primary

  • Head of Publications & Curriculum Specialist
  • B.Sc. (Hons)
  • A top scorer in her PSLE cohort
  • 5 to 6+ years teaching at GPA

The wider team

More of the teachers your child may learn from.

Each of our teachers is degree-qualified and trained in the GPA Method, and each teaches from the same in-house materials.

Ms Koo

Senior Tutor · Primary & Lower Secondary Math

  • B.Math Sciences (Hons), NTU
  • Primary Mathematics (P1–P6)
  • Secondary E Math (G2 / O-Level)
  • Teaching since 2017

Senior Tutor · Primary & Lower Secondary Math

Ms Koo

Ms Koo is the kind of Mathematics tutor who rebuilds a student's foundations properly, patiently, clearly, and without skipping steps. She is particularly effective for students who say things like "I understand it in class, but I keep losing marks," or "I get scared the moment I see fractions." With Ms Koo, those problems become very fixable, because she trains the specific habits that stop students from guessing.

Her most distinctive quality is that she teaches meaning before manipulation. Before a student touches a single step, she makes sure they understand what an expression actually represents. Fractions stop being frightening once a student hears: "Fraction still number right. Same rules apply." That mental reset, anchoring abstract symbols back to familiar ideas, is what makes her especially effective with students who have been confused for a long time.

"Don't have to fear this one. Change it back to numbers first."

Habits she builds

The habits Ms Koo builds to stop careless marks being lost

  • Bring the signs along. A term includes its sign. Moving it without the sign is where most errors begin.
  • Group like terms correctly. x with x, y with y, constants at the back, in alphabetical order, so nothing gets missed.
  • Bracket the whole group. If a minus sign applies to more than one term, bracket them. "Bracket is like a house, everything inside belongs together."
  • Simplify to simplest form. Always. It is expected, and not doing it costs marks even when the working is correct.
  • Put your units. Kg. Dollars. Minutes. The answer without a unit is an incomplete answer.

One of Ms Koo's most important lessons is knowing when you can cancel and when you cannot. It is one of the most common algebra traps, and she addresses it directly.

Can cancel

When terms are multiplying, e.g. 3a / 6 simplifies correctly.

Cannot cancel

When terms are adding or subtracting, e.g. (3 + a) / 6 cannot be split.

"Very tempted to cancel, cannot."
One of the lines her students remember long after the lesson. And that is exactly the point.

She also integrates exam literacy throughout. She trains students to interpret word problems carefully, thinking about direction ("who is heavier?"), about what "twice as heavy" actually means for the calculation, and about drawing a model when the relationship feels unclear. These are not supplementary skills. They are what separate a student who understands the chapter from one who earns full marks on it.

"This is where all the careless happen. Big star for brackets."

Particularly well-suited for

Students who are losing marks not because they lack ability, but because their process is inconsistent. Ms Koo's patient, method-focused teaching rebuilds the habits that turn "I almost had it" into clean, full-mark working, especially in algebra, fractions, and early algebraic manipulation.

Ms Cheng

Primary Mathematics Tutor

  • A former practising accountant
  • Founded her own tuition centre before joining GPA
  • Primary Mathematics (P1–P6)

Primary Mathematics Tutor · Former Accountant

Ms Cheng

Ms Cheng brings a background that is almost impossible to find in a Primary Math classroom: she spent years as a practising accountant before founding her own tuition centre. That history is not incidental. It is the reason she teaches the way she does: structured, logical, and extremely disciplined about process.

Step into her class, though, and you will also find something else entirely: it is lively, energetic, and genuinely fun. Her lessons regularly feature friendly competitions, reward systems, and team challenges that keep students focused without feeling like work.

"Eyes on the screen. Focus. Once we start with the ones."

Mental anchors

The rules Ms Cheng repeats until they stick

  • Start with the ones column.
  • Finish one column before moving left.
  • Regroup before you subtract.
  • Cancel properly.

These are not tips. They are mental anchors, repeated consistently until they become instinct. Strong habits, not clever tricks, are what protect students from careless mistakes under exam pressure.

She is also attentive to how each individual student thinks. If one method is causing confusion, she will introduce a different approach without hesitation.

"If this way is too complicated, we try another method."

Presentation is a priority. Ms Cheng pays close attention to working steps and logical flow, because she knows that messy working is usually a symptom of messy thinking. And messy thinking leads to avoidable errors.

"If the working is messy, the thinking becomes messy."

Despite the rigour, her classroom atmosphere stays warm. She celebrates effort, nudges hesitant students to try again, and rarely lets anyone stay stuck for long.

"It's okay, just try. Don't give up so easily."

Particularly well-suited for

Students who need both structure and encouragement. The combination of precise process-building and a warm, competitive classroom makes Ms Cheng's lessons ideal for children who thrive with clear rules, but also need to feel safe enough to make mistakes.

Ms Tan

Mathematics Tutor · Primary, E Math & A Math

  • B.B.A. (Hons), University of Hertfordshire
  • 6+ years teaching experience
  • Secondary E Math & A Math (G2 / G3 / O-Level)

Mathematics Tutor · Primary, E Math & A Math

Ms Tan

Ms Tan's lessons feel less like a lecture and more like a live workshop. They are fast-paced, interactive, and packed with purposeful practice, the kind of session where students leave having done a lot, understood most of it, and felt good about both. She is the tutor who turns revision into momentum.

One of her defining strengths is how well she reads the room. She checks in constantly, using quick progress signals to make sure nobody gets left behind quietly. If a student is stuck, she spots it fast, addresses the exact stumbling block, and reinforces it immediately through targeted questions. In a group setting, her classes manage to feel surprisingly personal.

"Thumbs up so I know I can move on."

How she runs the room

How Ms Tan drives the room

  • Explain the rule or technique briefly and clearly.
  • Throw a set of questions, starting basic and scaling up.
  • Watch for signals. Intervene on the exact point of confusion.
  • Remove the scaffolding. Practice again without support.
  • Keep going until the steps feel automatic, not effortful.

Her instinct is to build mastery through volume and variation. If a student can handle 25 to 30 different versions of a question type cleanly, the exam version stops being threatening.

Ms Tan is direct about one thing: knowing the chapter is not the same as being ready for the exam. She teaches students to think in question types and trains them to recognise what each command word is actually asking for, not just what to compute, but how the working must be presented to earn the marks.

Exam craft

What Ms Tan drills explicitly

  • "Show that" questions: work one side, reach the other, write "shown", not a single shortcut.
  • "Evaluate": give the final integer. Do not leave the answer in index form.
  • "Express in terms of…": match the required base exactly.
  • Substitution questions: recognise the hidden quadratic structure before solving.

Students leave her class with a map of question types, not just a pile of answers. That is what prevents the most common exam mistake: knowing the chapter but losing marks on method and format.

She is also honest about what traps students most. She names the specific habits that cost marks, the assumptions, the skipped steps, the notation errors, and she addresses them directly, without drama, the moment she sees them appear in practice.

"Later I remove the formulas already. In the exam, there are no formulas."

What students respond to most is her personality. She is warm, playful, and genuinely present in her classes, the kind of teacher who makes the room feel energetic without making anyone feel small. She celebrates effort openly, owns her own mistakes without hesitation, and creates an atmosphere where students feel safe to try, get it wrong, correct it, and keep going.

Particularly well-suited for

Students who need both energy and structure. Whether your child is building Primary Math foundations or tackling Secondary E Math and A Math, Ms Tan's workshop-style teaching builds the kind of practice volume and exam awareness that turns "I sort of understand it" into "I can actually do this in a test."

Mr Jeremiah

Senior Tutor · Secondary & A Math

  • B.Sc. (Hons) Data Science & Analytics, NUS
  • 6+ years teaching experience
  • Functions, graphs & calculus
  • Graph intuition & checklist mark-saving systems

Senior Tutor · Secondary & A Math

Mr Jeremiah

Mr Jeremiah is a calm, highly structured Mathematics tutor whose defining quality is this: he makes difficult topics feel manageable. Not through shortcuts or false reassurance, but through genuine clarity, breaking complex chapters into clean mental models, then building on them step by step until students can apply them reliably under exam pressure.

His approach is framework-first. Every topic becomes a system: identify the question type, apply the correct test, sketch where needed, follow the steps, then verify. Students who have previously felt overwhelmed by higher-level Math consistently describe his lessons with the same phrase, "Okay, I can actually do this."

"It might look daunting, but trust me, once you understand the logic, it becomes very systematic."

His standard system

His standard problem-solving system

  • Identify the question type first.
  • Apply the correct test (line tests, domain checks, constraint spotting).
  • Sketch first, build the geometric picture before the algebra.
  • Follow the steps. Clarity before speed.
  • Verify, confirm the working is logically sound, not just computed.

This sequence is not a rough guide. It is the structure he repeats across every topic until it becomes instinct, so that when a student encounters an unfamiliar question, the system still holds.

He is particularly strong at graph- and function-heavy topics, where his visual approach sets him apart. He almost always sketches before solving, building geometric intuition that gives students a way to reason about a problem before the algebra begins. He trains students to use checklist frameworks (covering restrictions, intercepts, turning points, asymptotes) so that key features are never missed, and marks are never dropped unnecessarily.

His lessons are guided and interactive. He checks understanding frequently, asks targeted questions to sharpen reasoning, and adjusts his explanation until the concept genuinely lands. Students feel safe to pause and clarify, because that is explicitly what he invites.

"If at any point you don't understand, stop me."

Thinking, not watching

How he keeps students thinking, not just watching

  • "What's the test here?"
  • "What do you have to do next?"
  • "So far clear? Does that make sense?"
  • "Think of it as… imagine you shift the line…"

Each check-in keeps students actively following the logic. The effect over time is that students develop the habit of reasoning through a problem, rather than waiting to be shown the answer.

Particularly well-suited for

Secondary students who feel that higher-level Math is too abstract or too fast-paced to follow. Mr Jeremiah's structured, visual, framework-driven approach gives students a reliable system to fall back on, especially when topics feel overwhelming or when exam pressure sets in.

Ms Amber

Senior Tutor · Primary & Secondary Math, Primary Science

  • B.Comm Studies (First Class Hons), NTU
  • 2nd Major in Business, NTU
  • Former GEP student
  • Teaching since 2020 · Primary Science

Senior Tutor · Primary & Secondary Math, Primary Science

Ms Amber

Ms Amber is a warm, thoughtful, and highly approachable Mathematics tutor who is especially strong at helping students make sense of questions that initially look confusing or overwhelming. A First Class Honours graduate from NTU, she brings both academic rigour and genuine teaching warmth to every lesson. Over five years of teaching Primary and Secondary Mathematics, she has developed a deeply structured approach to word problems, one that turns "I don't even know where to start" into a clear, logical sequence students can follow with confidence.

Beyond the classroom, Ms Amber has been actively involved in GPA's curriculum and publications work, assisting Mrs Toh directly in the development of the proprietary textbooks and workbooks that form the backbone of the GPA system. That involvement gives her an unusually deep understanding of how the materials are designed, what each exercise is training, and how to teach from them with the same intentionality they were written with.

"The clue is in the question. Read carefully. What exactly is it asking for?"

Structure made visible

How Ms Amber makes structure visible before solving

  • Boxes and unit models to represent parts, wholes, and what remains after each operation.
  • Branching diagrams for "what is left" problems where multiple stages of subtraction or distribution are involved.
  • Ratio tables to combine separate pieces of information cleanly, especially when ratios must share a repeated quantity.
  • Working backwards through multi-step problems when the final value is known but the original is not.

Her instinct is always: if the student can see the structure, the question becomes solvable. She does not move into equations until the picture is clear.

Trained in the GPA Method

In 2025 and 2026, Ms Amber was personally trained by Mrs Eileen Toh in the GPA Method, the same proprietary curriculum framework that underpins every class at Genius Plus. She did not simply learn the materials; she understudied the methodology directly under Mrs Toh, developing the ability to deliver the GPA system with the same precision and intentionality it was built with. She is one of the few tutors at GPA who has received this level of direct curriculum transfer from the Founder herself.

Her classroom presence is calm and collaborative. Rather than positioning herself as the sole authority in the room, she regularly invites students to reason through the next step with her, making them verbalise the logic, not just copy it. This approach consistently builds the kind of confidence that holds up under exam conditions, because students have practised thinking, not just following.

"Now you teach me. What should I do next?"

Parents value her patience and her ability to adapt explanations to each child's pace. She does not push students through concepts before they are ready. She builds understanding steadily, and the results follow from that foundation.

Particularly well-suited for

Students who get overwhelmed by long word problems, lose track of what the question is asking, or know the operations but cannot organise the information. Ms Amber's structured, visual, question-first teaching gives these students the clearest possible path from confusion to correct working.

System over tutor

The quality lives in the materials, not in any one tutor.

A child's progress shouldn't hinge on which tutor they happen to get. Every teacher is trained in the GPA Method and teaches from the same in-house materials, so the standard a family meets in a trial lesson is the standard they keep.

  • We write and publish our own, 60+ textbooks and 40+ workbooks. The full progression is ours, built and refined in our own classrooms.
  • Every teacher is trained in the GPA Method before they take a class on their own, so the teaching stays consistent across teachers and branches.
  • The same curriculum in every class. What your child learns does not change with the teacher in the room.

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About our teachers, questions parents ask

Are all your tutors qualified?

Yes. Our teachers are degree-qualified, and the team is led by founder Mrs Eileen Toh, a former MOE teacher with a Master of Education from NIE. Every teacher is also trained in the GPA Method before taking a class of their own.

Will my child always have the same tutor?

We aim for continuity, but it is not what holds the standard in place. Because every teacher is trained in the GPA Method and teaches from the same in-house materials, your child learns the same method the same way, whichever of our teachers is in the room.

Are tutors trained in one method?

Yes. Every teacher is trained in the GPA Method, the same approach Mrs Eileen Toh built into our in-house curriculum. The quality lives in the materials and the method, not in any single tutor, so the standard stays consistent across classes and branches.

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