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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kumon is stupid. Your kid can be super awesome at math without Kumon.[/quote]

No lie was told here. But you have to realize for a certain type of parent in the DMV, sending your kid to Kumon is more about signaling status and your parenting style than it is about helping your kid in school. Kumon is just worksheets. It's a lazy way to signal that you are tiger mom without actually being one. Parents who are serious about math acceleration and enrichment are doing AOPS, private tutors, and teaching their kids themselves.

A Kumon kid can do a ton of multi-digit additions problems in under a minute. A kid who's getting high-quality math enrichment instruction can do a problem like this: The letters E, H, I, N, R, S, T, V, and Y each stand for a different digit in the following addition problem

NINE + SEVEN + SEVEN + SEVEN = THIRTY

Find the digit value of each letter.

(The solution is E = 9, H = 5, I = 2, N = 3, R = 6, S = 4, T = 1, V = 7, and Y = 8, so the expression is 3239 + 49793 + 49793 + 49793 = 152618. If you don't understand that finding the solution to this problem requires deeper knowledge than doing reams of arithmetic worksheets, lord help ya.)[/quote]

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