Mathnasium vs. Huntington vs. Kumon

[Anonymous]

Have you heard C2 or peer to peer? C2 is very expensive and peer to peer is taught by high school student.

[asnmdirteha]

Have you considered a website called Beestar? I have been using it for over a year now and it has greatly helped my daughter's math, reading, language art skills. She is a lot more confident in math tests now and the best part is Beestar is for free! I don't have to shuttle her back and forth between Kumon sites and home and I can just have her work on subjects on Beestar that she may be struggling with for that quarter. I highly recommend you to take a look sometime!

[Anonymous]

Have any of you tried Curie Learning?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kumon isn't tutoring, it is learning how to do math calculations quickly and accurately. They would test her and probably start her on addition facts, then subtraction, then multiplication, long division, fractions, decimals, etc. It would take her a 1 to 2 years to reach the Algebra level of Kumon.

My kids have been doing Kumon for years. I'm more optimistic about Kumon working for the OP's child. I don't think it would take so long to reach the Algebra level. Each level has 200 pages. Even if they started him on level A (addition), he could do 10 pages a day, finish the level in 20 days, repeat the last 100 pages in 10 days, thus completing the level in 30 days. Maybe they wouldn't make him repeat the last 100 pages or maybe they would give him more than 10 pages a day. He could probably finish levels B, C, and D as quickly. He may need to cut down the number of pages per day at level E or F (fractions). Algebra starts at level G, I think.

Why not go for the free evaluation and talk to the Kumon instructor about it? Surely they have worked with 9th graders in this situation before.

OMG!!!! Run away from 10 pages of math Kumon a day for at least a month!!!! Put yourself in your child's shoes. If your boss made you do something like this, it would be a COMPLETE turn off. DO not that to your DD and math!!!

Sounds like your DD needs a systematic approach to be caught up on certain skills and supported with tutoring on algebra. I think the Huntington Learning Center is a better place for remedial work and tutoring.

[Anonymous]

Have you tried Best Brains. It's based on Common Core curriculum and taught by teachers. They have their own curriculum and it's not rote math like Kumon. Lots of word problems and critical thinking. My kids go there and they have improved a lot. More overthey love it and for me the best part is that it's much cheaper than Kumon or Mathnesium.

[Anonymous]

My children went to Kumon for 4 years. They hated it! Every Single Day, they had to do repetitive mind numbing calculations. This is 365 days a year adding, substracting, multiplying or dividing. There is nothing creative about it. No one would want to learn is such way. No one ever explained to them how to do these calculation. They just had to do it on their own. This was a torture I will never ever put my children to EVER AGAIN. Kumon may teach your children how to do simple math only, but it also is not meant to inspire anyone about math.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kumon isn't tutoring, it is learning how to do math calculations quickly and accurately. They would test her and probably start her on addition facts, then subtraction, then multiplication, long division, fractions, decimals, etc. It would take her a 1 to 2 years to reach the Algebra level of Kumon.

My kids have been doing Kumon for years. I'm more optimistic about Kumon working for the OP's child. I don't think it would take so long to reach the Algebra level. Each level has 200 pages. Even if they started him on level A (addition), he could do 10 pages a day, finish the level in 20 days, repeat the last 100 pages in 10 days, thus completing the level in 30 days. Maybe they wouldn't make him repeat the last 100 pages or maybe they would give him more than 10 pages a day. He could probably finish levels B, C, and D as quickly. He may need to cut down the number of pages per day at level E or F (fractions). Algebra starts at level G, I think.

Why not go for the free evaluation and talk to the Kumon instructor about it? Surely they have worked with 9th graders in this situation before.

I know this is 5 years old, but as a math teacher, something like Kumon is exactly what the OPs kid needed. A really solid, forward and backward comprehension and memorization of the foundations - that's where the problem comes from in Algebra.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My children went to Kumon for 4 years. They hated it! Every Single Day, they had to do repetitive mind numbing calculations. This is 365 days a year adding, substracting, multiplying or dividing. There is nothing creative about it. No one would want to learn is such way. No one ever explained to them how to do these calculation. They just had to do it on their own. This was a torture I will never ever put my children to EVER AGAIN. Kumon may teach your children how to do simple math only, but it also is not meant to inspire anyone about math.

1- wtf was wrong with you that you sent them 365 days a year?
2- if it was THAT BAD and such TORTURE OMG..... how / why tf did you send them for 4 YEARS?!?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We used kumon for a while. It helps, but it's a pity DD can't bear the heavy work. DD now uses beestar math. It's teacher recommended, full of all real life word problems, challenging stuff to help her thinking. DD loves to compete on it with other kids from a lot of other states.
Lisa

I am confusing to choose between Kumon and Beestar and I want to make it clear between Kumon and Beestar which one would the better one for my kid. My son is grade 4 and he loves to play rather than studying and I have a problem to send him to the physical after school classes that's why I'm chasing the right one for my kid. Your answer would be highly appreciated. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

What does mathnasium run?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We used kumon for a while. It helps, but it's a pity DD can't bear the heavy work. DD now uses beestar math. It's teacher recommended, full of all real life word problems, challenging stuff to help her thinking. DD loves to compete on it with other kids from a lot of other states.
Lisa

I am confusing to choose between Kumon and Beestar and I want to make it clear between Kumon and Beestar which one would the better one for my kid. My son is grade 4 and he loves to play rather than studying and I have a problem to send him to the physical after school classes that's why I'm chasing the right one for my kid. Your answer would be highly appreciated. Thank you.

Not that person, but I would recommend Beestar or Beast Academy.

[Anonymous]

I found Kumon to involve too much drudgery. Mathnasium seemed better for early ES, specifically for teaching the more basic stuff. Once they mastered the basics, AoPS was more fun, especially for a kid who doesn't need to do 100 worksheets to master a simple concept.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We used kumon for a while. It helps, but it's a pity DD can't bear the heavy work. DD now uses beestar math. It's teacher recommended, full of all real life word problems, challenging stuff to help her thinking. DD loves to compete on it with other kids from a lot of other states.
Lisa

I am confusing to choose between Kumon and Beestar and I want to make it clear between Kumon and Beestar which one would the better one for my kid. My son is grade 4 and he loves to play rather than studying and I have a problem to send him to the physical after school classes that's why I'm chasing the right one for my kid. Your answer would be highly appreciated. Thank you.

Not that person, but I would recommend Beestar or Beast Academy.

My son is doing so well with the Beestar, it only takes 20 mins a week and I could see that there is an improvement in his calculation skills and speed. It is completely free so it is worth to give a try. The teaching techniques are pretty familiar to the kids so not even worry about kids might get bored of it. Anyway good luck and hope it helps u.

[Anonymous]

My child has been using Sylvan for a while. We liked it at the beginning. It helped my child in math calculation skills. But over time, the benefit is no longer that visible and we feel more pressure on its monthly bills. However, my kid's teacher suggested me to use Beestar. It is also a online math program and she says Beestar is effective and does not cost very. Does anyone know about Beestar? Is is good or not?

[Thukha]

Same to us. My son used to go to Sylvan and we paid for the service that is not guaranteed. Then, we switch to Beetar and he really enjoys it. It provides multiple work sheets for the math program and the questions are interesting and not repetitive so my son likes them. Math and Science practice are what we signed him up so far at Beestar. Moreover, he is becoming a better student at school. I believe it has been a great switch to Beestar.