How would doing a large amount of homework that is, in most cases, completely unrelated to school lessons, help the student? You need a strong foundation to build off of for the future. Kumon does not provide that. And in later middle school and high school years, regular schools provide so much homework that any additional work will be extremely stressful for the child.
I have 2 kids in Kumon now. My sone hates it as it repetitive and boring. My daughter likes it and also ahead in her class.
I think its good for early ages as its sharpens arithmetic and teach kids that practice makes perfect. The activities also teachers discipline and consistency as they need to do practice daily. I have found atomicsteps. Its not boring as its filled with critical thinking and images. Try it out! My daughters are 2yrs and 4yrs old. I bought the Lets Color, -Paste and -Cut workbooks for them. Also the Workbook of Mazes and workbook on drawings.
They love it! Could you please explain step by step how it works, and what are expected of the instructors and the kids alike during any class. Cant I buy the books as they get older and let them work through them at their own pace?
Can a parent be a instructor? Glad to hear your girls liked the Kumon books. You could also just go to the centre to pick up the work or get the instructor to mail the work to you then do all the work at home with your child. Hope that helps! Thanks Caroline! I think I will continue with the workbooks at home. Once both are around 4yrs I will enroll them at the center closes to us. Hi Caroline Its impressive that you were able to start Kumon for your kid at 2.
I have twin daughters. They just turned two. Is that way too early to enroll them in Kumon. They can count to Thanks Ganesh. The instructor who shall remain unnamed of Hornsby and Neutral Bay Kumon Franchises in Sydney has been ripping off parents for decades.
This results in children as young as 4 crying EVERY lesson and students having their confidence crushed. Maths and English errors are quite vocally reprimanded so the student is publically humiliated in front of their peers. The instructor is self worshipping and thinks that any inconvenience such as homework not being marked , is the fault of the child or her staff. Sure they give you lots of lessons to take home, but how else are you going to hone your mathematical skills?
After high school I plan to pursue my future studies in either psychology or accounting. That is so cool looking! No he didnt like doing it, it used to take him nearly an hour a day to do the work and yes we had some tantrums ,but now it takes him no more that 20 minutes a day and usually just ten minutes its not hard its easy and he is very pleased with his own efforts, and I am very proud of him also.
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Please contact me if you have any questions. Just like to add that my daughter has been going for two months and I believe we are starting to see a difference. We are so excited! I hope this is the turning point. The Kumon program does focus on repetition but I think that it is working for her. Her time is getting faster with the worksheets, from 40 min per sheet to 8 min. Her confidence is building too. I believe her confidence, or lack there of, in the class room and with homework is a big part of the problem we were having.
Our goal is to get her caught up and prepare her for 3rd grade next year! I recommiend you try Tabtor, its much better and more personlaized than Kumon. You get a weekly conference call with the tutor in addition to weekly reports. There is a 14 day free trial with no credit card necessary and there is no obligation whatsoever.
You do the math! If you have questions, please email me at michael tabtor. Kumon made math so much easier for me. I started Kumon in , but then I had to quit. Its kind of ironic that all the students that have posted that they think Kumon is helping them, have not been able to spell or type correctly.
They are using phone slang shortcuts, which, if you wish to get anywhere in life, is a bad habit not to encourage. No employer will take you on if you write like that. I strongly urge everyone to at least Tabtor. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Private schools across the U. There is a Free Trial for 14 days with no credit card necessary absoultely no risk. There is a physical tutor behind every child that personalizes his or her work flow to their strengths and weaknesses.
We are the only service out there that can provide this service and we are able to do so through technology. My kids have been in kumon since they were 3. Guess its about 6 years now. Initially it was math and reading.
I ditched the reading last year- it did not improve reading comp, as my son pretty much just memorized the answers on each packet. I have read all the comments here, must say that those parents who say their child is 5 doing level H work is pretty hard to swallow.
The child has to do repeats of work sheets, and its days. A kid would have to do 30 sheets a day to pull that off, by kumon standards. I must say this, when kids are younger kumon is living hell.
Its hard for them to just do it and hours will pass. Eventually though the child learns self control and whammo its 20 minutes.
My kids have concentration, which I really attribute to them doing work everyday. I will say I am not a kumon nazi. Since they are both 2 yrs ahead in math, they do 3 pages a day and one day a week no kumon.
This keeps them sane. My son is in 3rd grade and daughter in 2nd grade, private school. The school is all about games for math- yet the students are hardly proficient. There is no way the kids in the class could answer more challenging problems. My son — his class has not mastered the times table and division is a joke. The issue is schools really suck at math. Our math skills as a nation are dismal, I can see very clearly as to why now. In China, all the kids learn how to multiply at the end of 1st grade, here- maybe they get it in 4th.
In my opinion, the kids just have to do the math, it is not about loving it all the the time, but character is built. It takes my son 5 minutes to do his math homework, at school mind you. He does not have math class everyday, only 2 times a week, math homework is rare. Pitiful really. The money I spend at kumon is well spent. The teachers hate, hate kumon- but if every kid in the class did kumon they would be forced to come up with a more challenging math program- ta da!
If schools believe they are doing such a great job how about giving the kids here- 3rd graders a shanghai 1st grade math test? It would be hard to look at that and do nothing.
If you do kumon give the kids a break every now and then. I will walk into kumon after 1. Many people from this blog have been coming to our site, so thank you very much. We recently just got covered in Fast Company Magazine. Check out the article and see for yourself. Take a free test drive at Tabtor. In my opinion, kumon is a waste of money. A lot of students do not understand when they reach new level and just keep making mistakes. There are no teacher guiding.
Moreover, the instructor and staff are not professional in maths. Kumon is for those who want there son or daughter to always be busy. It makes student over confident and ultimately they end up doing bad in Higher grades and universities.
I have first experience about this. It is just a business, people get tricked. I am a Kumon student since, and I am now on level I as well as sixth grade I only do math and while I find it sometimes diffifult I do it, here is what I think;. Does anyone ever go back to the regular cell phone. If you are contemplating Kumon, I think you owe it to yourself to check out Tabtor.
Kumon is seriously dangerous to children as it lacks creativity and critical thinking. Children studying Kumon tend to level off and decline cognitively because their developmental years are seriously damaged by introduction of rote learning such as Kumon.
If are a parent and want your child to be brilliant, quit Kumon and enroll them in a creative and stimulating environment. You will be happy you did. Having been friends since childhood. When Barbara Walters asked if the fact that their parents were college professors was a factor behind their success, they said no, that it was their going to Montessori school where they learned to be self-directed and self-starters.
They said that Montessori allowed them to learn to think for themselves and gave them freedom to pursue their own interests. I have been doing kumon since the second grade and so when i show this to her, I hope she finds no positives whatsoever so that I can finally get out of it!!! I am the daughter of a Kumon instructor, and I can say that Kumon has changed.
I started when I was 3 and I finished the reading program in 4th grade. Kumon trains students to be fast and accurate, therefore word problems should not be a problem. It never was for me. Not completely nonsense, but there are certain flaws. I will give you an example: Our center once had a student whose mother bragged about his intelligence.
We tested him, only to find out he was incredibly slow, and steps were all over the page. He was using a different method of two-digit multiplication, a lattice method, that took too long to draw and compute. His basic addition and subtraction skills were fine, but he was too slow and sloppy.
Also the writer seems to be saying ALL Kumon instructors do not teach the students. If a student needs help comprehending, my mom always spent MUCH more than 10 minutes helping them understand. When I was doing Level L in Math, I always studied the solution book first, then went to complete the set, and if I still did not get something, I asked my mom.
Furthermore, the writer appears to be very opinionated. Kumon is repetitive, yes that is a fact. Kumon is boring? Opinion right there. Nothing else! I understand that the writer used to run a Kumon Center, and often times, it is a very stressful job. However, I believe in it, and I was disappointed in this article.
I am interested in Cmaths, can anyone tell me if it is good or not? My kids can not do the same thing over and over- kumon bored them. Kumon may not be the most effective method for children to gain more practical skills with learning math and reading. Although you are given the core skills of being able to do arithmetic quickly but it still takes other skills like comprehension skill set to really get children to be able to complete questions when taking tests.
I would recommend trying out a website called Beestar which provided my daughter with helpful worksheets that makes her think for her own! She is highly entertained with the different types of worksheets. One word Tabtor. Check it out at Tabtor. Kumon is not effective for children to grasp practical math and reading skills. Core skills are strengthened in a timely manner but seems to lack critical thinking skills.
I would recommend trying out a website called Beestar which provided my daughter with helpful worksheets that helps her think critically. She is fairly interested with the different types of worksheet that is provided by the website.
What they promote is focus and accuracy, and because of these technique you can do your tasks in a fast and sure way, minimizing the consumed time to do the task. Also, the performance depends on you. I took Hnrs. Geometry in 9th grade, completed Alg 2 Hnrs online over a summer, took Hnrs. Precalc in 10th, took AP Calc AB 11th grade got a 5 with ease , took Calc 2 the first semester of my senior year, and am currently taking Calc 3 alongside college students and I can solve difficult problems meant for groups by myself.
Trust me: Kumon is a valuable resource. I am in Japan,the origin of kumon,and I hate it. Really,my parents force me to do it. At school,a international school,Everyone hates it. No one like it,exept the kumon instructors! They even make us pay electric fee 20 dollars! I should cost only 30 dollars,divided by the amount of students!
The will to work is the most important piece. I definitely do not recommend for anybody to send their child to kumon. Kumon Instructors discover what individual students are capable of and bring out their potential.
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow we at Kumon always have, and always will, place the utmost importance on continuing to learn. Through the Kumon Method we aim to foster sound, capable individuals who can succeed in achieving their goals in life. It began with children in Japan and now extends to students all around the world. Smartphone website. The Kumon Method and Its Strengths. At Kumon we are dedicated to fully pursuing the potential of each individual student.
Kumon Instructors provide just enough guidance for their students to be able to do the exercises on their own. As a result, our students learn that they can do anything if they try, build self-esteem, and develop the ability to take on new challenges for themselves. Kumon aims to foster sound, capable individuals who are able to independently carve out a path for themselves in life.
With the Kumon Method students learn by doing the worksheets independently without being taught. The Kumon Method aims for students to go beyond their school grade level through self-learning and advance to studying high school level material at an early age.
To sum up, the Kumon Method is a learning method that pursues the potential of each individual student and develops his or her ability to the maximum. The following four strengths enable Kumon to achieve all of the above. Individualized Instruction Kumon is an individualized learning method that allows each student to study at a comfortable level, regardless of age or school grade, and advance beyond his or her current school grade level.
See Details. Self-Learning Kumon places great importance on self-learning, encouraging students to read the worksheets, think, and do the exercises on their own. Small-Step Worksheets Kumon worksheets are designed to take students from easy problems to difficult problems in very small steps. Kumon Instructors Kumon Instructors discover what individual students are capable of and bring out their potential. It is about how math is so much more than rote numbers and whatnot.
Reading it made me realize that I don't dislike math, I dislike the way math is presented to society. Math itself is really fun. BunnyKnitter Agreed. Real math doesn't even look like register as math to most people and surprisingly might involve very few actual numbers. It's more about structuring abstract concepts and ideas in your mind or I suppose doing your taxes depending on where you stand but doesn't sound like the number sentences would help with that..
I have no clue what Kumon maths are, but I'd rather let your kids focus on the things they enjoy. The worst possible outcome is that they get a slightly worse grade a school, which will have no impact in thier life — David.
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. I spent about three minutes and found this worksheet and lots of others on this site : This type of puzzle game can make things much more interesting to a kid, while still practicing their beginning addition skills.
Improve this answer. I upvoted your answer, and like it very much. If you look at the studies, though, if you drop the most boring part of math - the rote memorization, the flash cards, the work - kids grow up less proficient in math. This is fine if your kid wants to be, I dunno, a fireperson or a doctor most doctors only need basic math.
I suspect this is one reason we have a serious shortage of engineers. For my little brother, it was a game of "guess the shopping bill", which made for pretty good practice of multi-digit addition. Personally I think it's a flaw to say these things are objectively boring.
As a kid, I really enjoyed the straight up memorization. Not everything has to be a game. But ArthurDent, I think you bring up a good alternative viewpoint for consideration. As I mentioned, there could be a host of other issues that are causing the child's unhappiness--I jumped to a potential visual processing issue, but I sure there could be many others that are worth investigating.
And, more power to you--I sure wish I enjoyed memorization even the slightest amount. Annatar Annatar 6 6 bronze badges. Kumon is mostly done at home, so any time spent on it takes away from doing it the fun way at home. I've also been instructed to not talk to my child whilst doing the homework. Oh, I see. Still, who gets to make the choice about the tasks?
You, the child, a teacher? Even then, you have to prepare the child to face "boring" type questions in their final exams. Better start early, imo. The large majority of children gets used to it relatively painlessly as part of growing up life is not all games and fun forever. Then again, maths usually is not a favourite subject for most..
The teacher sets the task. I've had little input. My partner is suggesting we do this, because it is the style they are familiar with, and they were good at this. However they lost interest on mathematical subjects around I already suspect that this particular style works well for some children, but not for others.
I'm unconvinced that maths need ever not bee fun, people enjoy all kinds of things, and plenty enjoy maths.
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