AAP math - Mathnasium
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Anonymous
| Any experience with Mathnasium for Algebra and Geometry? |
Anonymous
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I sent my kid there to remediate bad public school math education during the pandemic.
As a result, he scored 680 math on SAT, and was a Nat'l Merit Commended Student due to a high, unenriched SAT verbal score. He also outperformed my math level, percentilewise. And we have similar abilities and both dislike math classes. So, I conclude he learned some things but it cost a lot. Mathnasium is less structured than Kumon and does not give daily work at home or tasks for parents to monitor. I think it depends a lot on the kid. I recommend ixl.com as a cheap way to assess skill deficits. |
Anonymous
| Why would an accelerated math kid need Mathnasium? |
Anonymous
Am PP. My kids had shockingly obvious math knowledge deficits due to the pandemic and also suffered from an ineffective math teacher that all kids who take algebra get for 7th grade Pre-Algebra. My older son's Algebra class was online for the spring of 2020 and they basically lost 2 months of material. My younger son could not do division of a 3 digit number by a 2 digit number by hand in 8th grade. I lost out on direct admission to an honors college with scholarship because of 10 math SAT points. I could not raise my score with my own prepping (took SAT 3 times). This was a scarring experience. I also had trouble in college calculus. And I had moved during childhood to MoCo. I was deleveled from the advanced math track in 7th grade after 2 months because I got lost and couldn't keep up with kids who had been in the system K-6. So I have a lot of resentment from all of this, and it motivated me to make sure my kids are more like my husband who got a very good h.s. math education and reached calculus in h.s. I decided it would be worth paying for performance remediation to ensure a better high school GPA and SAT. That was achieved at a steep price of about $4K per school year per kid. IXL (ixl.com) costs only $$-$200 per year. Khan Academy is free. But my kids refused to self-study math. My spouse and I work and don't have a lot of time to police math enrichment. Mathnasium seemed more friendly and oriented towards liking math vs. mastery through drilling (Kumon). Overall, I think Mathnasium does a better job of targeting K-8. Their core demographic is elementary school students. My kids are outliers, but I like the owner/primary center director and he works well with my kids. He is a grad of the state flagship university where I went for MBA, and my older son will matriculate there in the fall. So I feel he knows what level my kids need to achieve to succeed there. It's a nationally highly-ranked, non-DMV school. |
Anonymous
Schools shut down. My kid's teacher gave up at the start of the pandemic and the next year was pretty bad too. Once they were back, the fall iready scores were horrible. She did mathnasium for a couple of months and caught back up |
Anonymous
It's mostly useful for drilling worksheets for things your kid already understands. Once you get to higher math I'm guessing unless your local franchise is extraordinary it's not going to be a lot of help. |
Anonymous
| It’s drilling worksheets with one high schooler governing 6 kids, if a question arises. Parents do not see the binders. There’s not much tutoring. |
Anonymous
Tutoring centers are for behavioral management of student who won't do the work at home but will at school. It separate from ability. An accelerated 10 year old is a remedial 14 yer old. |
Anonymous
True, a remedial 14 year old is lagging behind, at the level of an advanced 10 year old. |