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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm curious--what types of "issues" in school are your children having that caused you to turn to Kumon? Or is literally just an eagerness for your child to "get ahead"? Is Kumon assisting with reading skills or just math? These are sincere questions--not snark. Thanks.[/quote]

Child was struggling A LOT with learning add/sub math facts.  Younger sibling could answer 6+4 type of questions in a snap.  Older child was hearing sibling answer while s/he was still counting on fingers.  Child was saying "I'm just not good at math." and "I hate math."  After trying to help child by giving math worksheets with a secret picture to color and other workbooks, and facing a lot of resistance, we turned to Kumon so that child would get these basic facts down and then feel successful when these topics were covered at school.

Child pretty much hates Kumon, and we have still had many times where child says "I hate math" and there have been tears and times where I just put aside the "timing" element and helped child work through 200 problems (I'm talking about 6+9 and 5+7, etc).  HOWEVER, child is learning the facts and now that they started that section in school, child is seeing that she is actually faster/better than many of the kids in her class.... which is creating an impression (in her mind) that child IS good in math!  So, it is paying off.  I do not plan to continue for the long term.  I've told child s/he needs to get through adding, subtracting and probably the start of multiplying (at least some of the basic tables, not advanced).  Then she can quit.  My goal is for child to get the basics so that she can make use of what they are trying to teach (in very curory way) at school.

If you don't have the basic computation skills, math is going to seem hard your entire life.  I refuse to let my child be counting on his/her fingers in 9th grade.  ;)

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