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Born in Liverpool of Bangladeshi parents, Muslim mum Rakiya Rahman studied maths at university. Now, after the school run, she returns home to her passion: teaching maths.

She has now turned this passion into a part-time business, tutoring children from age 5 up to A level standard.

She mainly does this face to face but she now uses computers as an integral part of her business. She's set up a website and started teaching maths online as an extension to her tutoring at home.

She admits to having hated computers when she was a child and never used them until she was forced to at university, when she was 21.

She says she's now on the computer all day: "If I'm not cooking, cleaning or looking after the kids, I'm on the computer. My husband's sick of it - if I'm not doing tutoring I'm building pages for the website."

She also offers free video-conference lessons every time she hits a certain number of 'likes' on her Facebook page.

She's created a website hosted by an online company which teaches you how to set up a webpage and make money online. Maths tuition can be expensive but she says doing such offers and being online is a great way of drumming up business.

Now, after being on the web for one year, she's getting 600-700 unique visitors a day. She tutors everyday - and she says that, because of the higher profile of her part-time business via her website, she's now busy all year round and she's normally fully booked.

For her video-conference lessons, she uses a whiteboard in her home or writes using the screen after agreeing a time and date over email. She can now teach people on the other side of the world.

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