Playtime enhances creativity and problem-solving, and helps children learn communication skills, she adds. The school system already provides a solid education. Tutoring companies tend to play on parents' fear of their child not getting into university, Ms. Arnall says. For instance, Oxford Learning informs parents on its website that "it's extremely competitive to get into post-secondary education," and that they need a "competitive edge" to succeed. She says parents should get the consent of their child before enrolling him or her in a tutoring program: "It's okay to want your child to get ahead, but the child has to want to get ahead.
Angela Marseglia, owner and director of two Toronto-area Oxford Learning centres, agrees that children should have a say in whether or not to enroll, but takes issue with the "misconception" that tutoring is not fun. Anju Dhawan, mother of eight-year-old twins Alaina and Jillian, says a well-rounded child is "paramount. The enrichment programs cultivate discipline through rote learning, Ms. Dhawan adds, but they also help children develop confidence by giving them the skills to perform well at school.
Kumon is about self-learning. Just Mathematics and English? It is learning about yourself. It is also about empowerment through that process of learning about yourself and the positive results you can achieve for yourself through your own efforts. This is brought about by gaining confidence in yourself which enhances your self-esteem. This leads you to tremendous success in every field in your life. Use Kumon as a tool to achieve this. Instructors are parents just like yours.
They reinforce and validate the guidance your parents give you. Well, I agree with what you posted and I can see the benefits of kumon. However, my son absolutely hates it although he grudgingly admits his maths has improved. Hope this helps! As I had said earlier, apart from developing the skills in reading and math, Kumon aims to develop the soft skills that last a life time. Hi Meesh, My Children have done both Kumon and CAMI, I prefer CAMI, as I found with Kumon if my children were home doing their work and they were making mistakes they would make the same mistakes throughout the whole exercise until they were marked by either myself or by the Kumon tutor at the next session.
To me this is a waste of time as they have been repeating the wrong thing over and over without realising it. CAMI on the other hand presents the solution straight away if they have made a mistake with the screen flashing red, instantly alerting the student they have done something wrong and they can refer to the solution to correct themselves.
Further if the parent is like to monitor children progress they can do it at any point of time by generating a report, as CAMI constantly monitors the student progress whenever they are doing the exercise. With Kumon, I had to check through their work and see if the were making mistakes which was very time consuming.
I find CAMI more individualized than Kumon, on the contrary to your perception Meesh, as they prepare courses for each of the children normally a couple weeks worth of work which is sent by email. Subsequent work is tailored and based on their performance is the previous course they have completed and submitted. They also have tutors available on the phone and also via email. I have had to use these sparingly as my Maths is thank god is good enough to assist the kids if they have any question at the moment at least LOL.
I have used these mainly to request my preference for the volume of work set and also for some technical advice on the program. To those parents who comment about hating it … my comment is the same as to my about Chinese school on Saturdays … if the parents worried whether their kids love or hated it there would be no schools or they would be empty… Sydney however has so many Chinese schools full of kids, who are learning something that will help them greatly in later life and also teach them about the culture.
Although they hate it now they will thank there parents later in life… as I did. Their content and assignments are much superior to Kumon. Being online, all performance reports are available instantly. I had never heard of the Kumon method either.
Wikipedia has a decent entry. Evidently about four millions students use it world wide. I suppose the question is love it or hate it, has it helped raise maths achievement levels overall? Practice does not make perfect, practice makes permanent. If you practice the wrong technique over and over you will just ingrain the bad habit. I have always considered myself mathematically challenged. However, my son is a born mathematician maybe skips a generation?
He is rapidly approaching the limit of my math skills as he is in 2nd grade and can already do many pre-algebra and basic algebra problems.
Are there any programs that can be recommended for someone who wants real math help but not of the boring drill type? Well Done! The Key Stage 3 KS3 site is for year olds which I think you and your son might be able to tackle but also take a look at their KS2 site for year olds.
I can highly recommend Mangahigh. My oldest daughter struggles with math. Thank you for the links! Summer break is a good time to catch up on maths skills.
Just do a little every day and mix it with drills, workbooks and maths games. Whoever made thisit is an extremely effective way of learning. I know the corrections can seem to be a pain, but actually doing corrections will help you learn from your mistakes.
I had my kids in Kumon Program, but I was very disappointed about their method, 1. I saw with Kumon they will never be those kids, yes they will probably will improve their math marks but my goal is for life not just to have good marks now. Kumon provide students to help their students, and belive me they are not University Students but high school or Elementary School students, I did not want to pay a student, a few years older then my kids, to help my kids.
The place was so dirty it seems to me they never care to vacuum or dusting that place, in winter the floor was so wet with snow and the asked the kids to take off their boots and walk in socks on a wet and very dirty floor, my kids had to change their socks right after they finished, the place was unbelievable dirty.
I strongly recommend OXFORD to you guys, your kids will get professional help, their instructors have university degree and if they hire students to help the kids their students are University student not Elementary student like Kumon has. During my first 6 months of kumon, I got a total of about 40 points. Just came across this forum and wanted to say Kumon has been a great asset to both my daughters. My oldest daughter has been going for 5 years, my youngest 4 years; both take reading and math.
Yes, we have had our struggles and still do from time to time — but they view it as part of their required work load like school work and know that it is their responsibility. Both girls do extremely well in school; especially in math. Learning the Kumon method, plus the school math method they actually learn math in French and in English — so they learn 3 different methods total , seems to have enhanced their problem solving skills. However, she has a great work ethic and studies hard.
Repetition does not make one a dumb smart.. It helps a person to connect things faster. The point is, none of this supplemental extra learning seemed like it was useful because upto college, I never even thought I understood what math was or why algebra even existed seems like computers can do these calculations much faster ….. Even though it sucked, in college, it all made sense. Not only could i whiz through simple classes, I ended up double majoring in math and computers.
And no computer can only do fast calculations, given the calculation to work on. And computers break if you give them a wrong calculation to work for example, if the instruction had a loop in it.
Today as a computer scientist or when I work with mathematicians that come up with financial analysis computations based on old calculations they have come to recognize through practice I realize even more how important these skills are. I wish I was given more repetition, more subjects to excel in.
I wish I was also given more reading supplementals. Of course you gotta let the kids be kids as well. Hi, I just started my 4 year old daughter in Kumon in Medford Massachusetts.
I find it very secretive what the young teachers are actually going over with my child. Now you explained they are re-doing the worksheets.
Parents are not allowed to enter the room after a certain point. I could make up those worksheets too. I wanted to my daughter to be comfortable with math unlike her mom! It is just a testament of the public school system in this country and how we are producing more foolish kids than bright ones in other countries.
Our basic curriculum is not up to standards compared to other countries. And we focus our students on sports way too much. Just my two cents. Thank you for writing about Kumon. Hi Rosey, Thanks for sharing your thoughts about Kumon. As a system, it can definitely work, and in comparison to long term private tuition, the price is reasonable. I agree, however Kumon is even more popular in Asian countries with more traditional math education systems. It seems that parents all around the world realise the importance of their children being strong at math and English.
The fact that i go there about once in three months has made no difference in my performance as when I went regularly. All for one hundred bloody dollars a month. Maybe if u went twice a wk instead of once every 3 months,u would notice some improvements. And with that attitude,no wonder you are not getting it.
Mabye YOU should try kumon. You will soon have the same viewpoint as that anonymous fellow. Many different math learning centrse have different purposes so if your children just solely want to work on math computation and do not need instruction or teaching then Kumon is fine especially Kumon system is very efficient in running franchise, much like fast food approach.
But if you want to have you kids not only learn computation skills but also problem solvinig skills then it requires quality taching time, this is where Kuon lacks but if they get iinto this area then their franchise efficient system will suffer.
So here is the tradeoff from running an education franchise system of view. I believe a well-rounded math education system so my learning centre Ho Math and Chess teaches not only computation but also problem solving skills using chess and puzzles. Kumon maths is for children who are just starting to learn arithmetic or for those who find maths very difficult and are failing in class. It is not for math savvy children in higher grades.
Try doing problems in minutes! Most of us would make at least 1 mistake. If basic arithmetic is given for the first day, it would be OK, provided there were true math certified tutors at Kumon who would teach students mental maths, i. Rote learning is never effective. The human brain does not remember memorized facts, it needs to understand facts. The same way children need to understand mathematics.
In addition applied maths is what is important for smart older children. There is always simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in any math problem. The tutors at Kumon are not experts in maths. They charge a lot of money for a few workbooks that parents have to help kids do.
Your child can probably teach the tutor how to do algebra and calculus! Kumon can actually hurt a child who is good in maths. Where is the challenge that smart kids need? You can have them practice any number of problems that will be corrected and graded automatically.
Do not enroll your child to satisfy yourself, instead think of what it can do for your child: help or harm! I love kumon and I am a twelve yr old that is very busy and barley has time. I made it into algebra because of kumon. I am ahead and the work I do is soooo easy. My instructor is the smartest lady I know. I need help she explains it in a way which makes you think.
I love kumon a lot. I thank my parents for enrolling me. And when I was told to quit an extra curricular activity I chose my favorite sport track over kumon. It will get ur kid in an iv league collage if she he really devotes time. This message came from a kid btw:. Second, Kumon is NOT a tutoring program and its not supposed to be and it is not promoted as such.
The repetition is designed to train the kids to learn on their own. We began with math and added reading about 6 months ago. Initially he was placed at the 1st grade level, in a year zoomed through the worksheets and is now at level F 6th grade equivalent. I tried to supplement with extra work at home but he needed a good system. Traditional maths and English tuition helps students progress, but Kumon goes one step further by helping each child develop self-learning skills, enabling them to tackle challenging work without reliance on a teacher.
Students complete daily worksheet study developing ability and fluency gradually over time, progressing in small steps and building confidence. They also visit their local study centre up to twice a week for guidance from their Instructor. This means that they can strengthen their key skills or progress beyond school grade level without restriction. Kumon offers a cost-effective and convenient way to help your child build strong English and maths skills for a successful future.
As an Ofsted registered centre, parents can make considerable savings through various schemes. Class Times and Pricing. One off fee. What is the Registration Fee? To get your child started with Kumon study you will pay a one off registration fee to register them as a student.
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