IB tutoring · Serving Milan’s international schools online
IB maths tutoring for Milan international schools.
Milan has one of the densest clusters of IB Diploma schools in Europe, and they reach the Diploma by very different routes: IGCSE at some, the MYP at others, an American curriculum or a bilingual Italian programme elsewhere. Those routes produce genuinely different strengths and gaps in maths, which is why the guides below are written per school rather than as one page.
I’ve tutored students from the American School of Milan, the British School of Milan, the Canadian School of Milan, Collegio San Carlo, ICS Milan and St Louis School, and nearby from the International School of Como and the International School of Bergamo.
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What Milan students have in common
- Online, not in person
- All tutoring is online via Zoom or Google Meet with a shared whiteboard. That is a deliberate choice rather than a limitation: it makes scheduling around a demanding DP timetable far easier, and session notes are shared afterwards.
- Three languages
- Lessons run in English, Italian or Croatian. In Milan the English–Italian combination matters most: many students reason more naturally in Italian while being examined in English.
- The Bocconi thread
- Milan schools send a steady stream of applicants to Bocconi, whose admissions test is 24 maths questions out of 50 on a syllabus overlapping heavily with Analysis & Approaches. For students on that path the two projects should be planned together.
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How the school routes differ
- IGCSE schools
- Strong procedural fluency arriving into the Diploma; the challenge is the shift from producing answers to justifying them.
- IB continuum schools
- Strong investigation and communication skills, which pay off in the Internal Assessment; the usual gap is algebraic speed.
- American-curriculum schools
- Comfortable with computation, less exposed to formal proof, and more likely to be sitting the SAT alongside the Diploma.
- Bilingual and Italian schools
- Mathematically strong, examined in a second language; command terms and extended-response phrasing are where marks go.
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Guides by school
Outside Milan? Lessons are online. See online IB tutoring for students anywhere.
| School | Curriculum route | What changes for tutoring |
|---|---|---|
| The British School of Milan | Follows the English National Curriculum to IGCSE, then the IB Diploma. | Students arrive with strong algebra, and the jump is from getting answers to justifying them. |
| St Louis School | Runs the British curriculum and IGCSE, then the IB Diploma. | It has one of the larger Diploma cohorts in Milan, so maths sets are big. |
| International School of Milan | Runs the full IB continuum: PYP, then MYP, then the Diploma. | Students are strong at investigation, and the usual gap is algebraic speed. |
| American School of Milan | Runs an American curriculum with the IB Diploma inside it. | Students are comfortable with computation and meet formal proof later. |
| ICS Milan | Runs a bilingual English and Italian programme, with IGCSE in Years 10 and 11 before the Diploma. | Maths words are learned in one language and examined in another. |
| Canadian School of Milan | Cambridge Lower Secondary and IGCSE, then the IB Diploma in Grades 11 and 12. | A small Diploma cohort, so less know-how is passed down from older year groups. |
| Collegio San Carlo | Runs an English-taught IB Diploma inside an Italian school. | Students are strong in maths and are often examined in English for the first time. |
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