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[quote=Anonymous]You need to send your kid to Kumon for a couple of years to gain mathematical fluency. Your child is still counting on his or her fingers up to 10? There is no way to be good in math doing that.

Kumon works on math facts. You pay around $180 a month for your child to go to the Kumon center 1-2 times a week to work on a math packet, then your child will do math packets the other 5-6 days at home. So 15 minutes a day for younger students to 20-30 minutes a day for older students,  365 days a year.

Your child will start with adding +1 to numbers until it becomes automatic then +2, etc. Level A is math single digit addition. No counting on fingers is allowed. It teaches speed plus accuracy.  Then level b is subtraction, c is multiplication, d is division, e is fractions.

My child did kumon starting at the end of third grade when I realized no one at school was requiring him to truly memorize math facts. He did it for two years until the end of 5th. He went from being behind in math to ahead. A huge benefit is that he is so much speedier in math so math homework is done faster now. [/quote]

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