Francky

How It Started

Maths came naturally to Francky at school — naturally enough that his teachers would occasionally ask whether he’d consider becoming one himself. He never wanted to. He watched them teach the same syllabus year after year, work through stacks of marking every evening, and manage classrooms of thirty students at thirty different levels. That wasn’t the kind of teaching he was drawn to.

His first taste of something different came at 14, when the school vice principal asked him to give up his lunch breaks to help a younger student who was struggling. He agreed — why not? — and discovered almost immediately that he enjoyed it. The student’s mother gave him some cash vouchers at the end of the year. It wasn’t much, but the satisfaction of watching someone finally understand something that had been blocking them was disproportionately rewarding.

A year later, the principal asked if he’d take on a paid job: another parent was looking for a maths tutor for her daughter. He agreed again, started going to their home once a week, and more clients followed. He was still in sixth form, with a small but growing roster of private students — and he was regularly told he explained things more clearly than their classroom teachers did.

Teaching Philosophy

Francky has always seen private tutoring as something fundamentally different from school teaching. A classroom teacher must hold an entire class at the same pace. A private tutor is more like a doctor: every student arrives with a different set of gaps, habits, and anxieties, and the job is to diagnose accurately and prescribe specifically. Mathematics is a language that anyone can master — but only with the right guidance for their particular situation. The same explanation never works for everyone.

That belief shaped everything about how Interactive Tutors was built: hiring only curriculum specialists rather than generalists, and starting every new student with a diagnostic session before any lesson plan is written.

Teaching Methodology

Every student follows a structured progression through four stages:

• Diagnostic Assessment — identifying each student’s exact gaps and strengths before any teaching begins, so nothing important is assumed and no time is wasted on what’s already understood.
• Structured Learning — building knowledge systematically from foundational concepts upward, with each session connecting to the wider syllabus picture so students understand why, not just how.
• Exam-Focused Practice — extensive problem-solving with real past-paper questions, timed conditions, and mark-scheme analysis so students know exactly what examiners reward.
• Continuous Adjustment — regular progress checks and honest feedback, with the plan adapted as understanding develops. What works in October rarely needs to be the same approach in March.

Building Interactive Tutors

Francky founded Interactive Tutors in 2011, starting from a small studio in Sheung Wan and home visits to families in Sai Kung. Growth came almost entirely through referrals — one family told another, who told another. Within a year the first studio was too small. A larger space followed, then a second office on the same street, then a purpose-built multi-room centre where the institution stayed for three years. In 2016 a Wan Chai office opened; in 2018, Wan Chai became the official headquarters.

Today Interactive Tutors covers 10 curriculum-specific math programmes. Every tutor is a full-time specialist hired for depth of knowledge in the exact syllabus they teach — the same standard Francky held himself to from his very first session at 14.

Teaching Focus

Francky’s own teaching centres on the curricula where conceptual depth makes the biggest difference to results:

• IB Mathematics AA — Higher and Standard Level: calculus, proof, complex numbers, and Internal Assessment support
• IB Mathematics AI — Higher and Standard Level: statistics, modelling, technology use, and IA guidance
• IGCSE Mathematics — Cambridge and Edexcel, Core and Extended
• A-Level Mathematics — Edexcel, AQA, OCR, and CIE
• SAT Mathematics and Common Entrance preparation

He also oversees curriculum development across all Interactive Tutors programmes, reviewing materials each time an exam board updates its specification.

Background

Francky is a graduate from McGill University and has been tutoring privately since the age of 15. He is fluent in English, French, and Cantonese — an advantage when finding a different angle on an explanation that hasn’t landed. He has worked with students from more than twenty countries and guided hundreds of them to top grades, with many achieving perfect scores or maximum IB marks in their final examinations.