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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I asked this before and no one answered despite many saying they "supplement". What SHOULD parents who are not math majors do outside of class to help their kids? If "supplement" is the answer what in the world does that mean we actually need to do? Is the only answer to sign them up for tutoring services starting in ES? That seems impossible to keep up without burning out my kid.[/quote]

Tutoring services whether its a private tutor, foreign Saturday school that takes english speakers, Mathnasium, Kumon or other is time consuming and expensive. You need to budget a few thousand dollars and commit to around 2 hours per week. There are on-line programs like IXL or if you pay for WISC testing and your child qualifies you can do Hopkins talented youth on-line. IXL is much cheaper and Khan academy is free but I'm not sure that Khan does enough to cover the MCPS gaps.

Its a choice and we had each kid drop a sport to do be able to do it and we have not taken up music classes. On the upside they actually enjoy it but even if they didn't I think we would still have to do it. [/quote]

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