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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I send my kids to KUMON. PP said it is “redundant” because it just teaches stuff from school. That is true in a way— the curriculum is very similar. However, the homework repetition is totally different. School homework has ten problems and KUMON homework has 50-100 (nightly!). I don’t think kids can memorize math facts with the homework provided from school. With more advanced skills (let’s say three digit vertical subtraction for elementary school), the KUMON homework has scaffolding that just isn’t present in the school homework because there just aren’t enough problems to see mastery of different sub skills (I.e. 493-72 is using less advanced skills than 441-72, which is easier than 401-72)[/quote]

100 problems a night or per Kumon session (which I'm guessing would be once or twice a week)? Because 500 problems a week on top of 50 problems a week for school sounds like overkill.[/quote]

At the current level (basic multiplication), it is about 100 problems but this is supposed to take 10 minutes. (KUMON measures things by pages. Each page is supposed to take 2 minutes if the kid really knows it. The number of problems on the page varies but is usually 20 right now. The number of pages assigned can vary but right now my kid gets 5 pages.)[/quote]

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