About Vertex Academy

One academy in Avondale, Auckland. Maths tutoring for Years 1–13 aligned to the New Zealand Curriculum, and a route from a weekly Study Hub session to an international competition.

How we teach

A free assessment establishes where a student actually is. That becomes a personalised learning plan, worked through in small-group Study Hub sessions each week, with progress tracked against the New Zealand Curriculum objectives rather than against the rest of the class.

Memberships are weekly, from $44, with no lock-in. Six programmes run under one academy: Years 1–13 tutoring, three international olympiads, EduVentures and university tours.

What we have published

A tutoring centre this new asks you to take a lot on trust. These are the things you can check for yourself today, without talking to us, paying anything or signing up.

Thirty-nine free lesson videos

Full maths lessons for Years 5–7, about four and a quarter hours in all, free and with no sign-up. Every diagram is drawn from its own geometry when the video is built rather than sketched by hand, so the picture and the working cannot disagree, and every caption is written rather than auto-generated. Auto-captions mangle fractions and decimals. See the library.

Every objective in plain language

The refreshed New Zealand Curriculum’s maths objectives, year by year, restated in plain language with the lesson that covers each one. They are quoted from the Ministry of Education under CC BY 4.0 rather than paraphrased, so you can check them against the source: Year 5, Year 6, Year 7.

A free placement test

No login and no cost. It reports the curriculum level a student is actually working at rather than the year group they happen to be in, which is where any plan we write has to start. Take the test, or try the free practice questions.

Vertex Academy runs from one centre, at 2163 Great North Road in Avondale. Write to hello@vertexacademy.co.nz and you will be corresponding with Vakkas Celik. A first assessment is free, and memberships are weekly with no lock-in.