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

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That is the dumbest comment ever. You're shaming people for getting academic help. [/quote]

“Academic help?” People make their kids do Kumon because they think it’s the key to bring the top of the class. If your kid actually needs help to stay on grade level, you need a tutor. Doing piles of Kumon worksheets isn’t teaching math it’s practicing math.[/quote]

To be fair, a lot of students do improve their conceptual understanding with lots of rote practice, because that's what their school was missing, and for some brains it takes a million practice problems for it to click. But you don't need a paid service for that, I agree. [/quote]

Which students learn concepts from rote practice?
Learning concepts comes from non-rote practice, making connections between different ideas.

Rote practice miseducates by making the student think one specific computation is the "real" math. Then they grow up and throw fits over schools teaching their kids mathematical concepts  the parents don't understand. [/quote]

Math learning involves two essential components - Building conceptual understanding and Developing proficiency.  One without the other does no good.  Schools attempt to focus on just conceptual understanding but do very little on developing proficiency.  Teachers can only do so much given the class size, varied  and time allowed, so they choose to focus on teaching concepts.  Developing proficiency involves repetition which is boring and not fun at all for the student, but the only practical way a teacher can accomplish is by assigning substantial homework problems.  Parents who understand the need for developing proficiency welcome teacher assigned homework, but uninformed parents has succeeded in forcing schools to foolishly adopt a limited or no-homework policy.   Informed parents with superior parenting skills use homegrown methods with free worksheets and workbooks but others who want to save their tough love for something else other than math lean on the likes of Kumon.

Kumon method is heavily focused on developing proficiency through computational math repetition.  For developing conceptual understanding and math application, parents still need to engage other avenues like singapore math, word problems, competitive math,  etc.   
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