Today I enrolled my 9 yo daughter in Kumon. She has a developmental variation in phonics and mild inattentive ADD’ She needs much help with her addition and subtraction facts although she seems to have a grasp on the multiplication facts. She is in a private school that uses Everyday Mathematic by Chicago Math. This a language based math program and has little or no opportunity for drill type practice. The math sheets used at school have about 6 problems on them that are alll word problems and often the problems are not related to each other in concept. I thought Kumon might be a good supplement to this math program, but most of the posts about Kumon have seemed negative. I also thought that it might be better to have the pressure to do the drill type work come from an external source rather than being parental pressure. Any comments or thoughts on Kumon being used in this context would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, CJ
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Re: kumon & Chicago Math
The majority of what you will hear on Everyday Math is negative. I’ve done a search before and read some very negative articles. Try a site called Mathematically Correct. They review many math programs to identify good ones and weed out the “whole math” programs.
Seriously, I’d have to move my child from a school that used Everyday math. unless I could convince the school to change curriculum.
Janis
Arrrgh
Does the Chicago Math company secretly own Kumon? Everyday Math is used throughout our area schools and let me tell you, business is booming at Kumon. I’d say give it a try. Or switch schools! We did Kumon in Kindergarten/1st grade before our child’s learning disability was diagnosed. It kept him afloat but did advance him. My son is at a private school this summer, with a more traditional math program. He’s flying.
I’d be interested in opinions on Everyday Math and ld kids -have heard different opinions.
Re: kumon & Chicago Math
The majority of what you will hear on Everyday Math is negative. I’ve done a search before and read some very negative articles. Try a site called Mathematically Correct. They review many math programs to identify good ones and weed out the “whole math” programs.
Seriously, I’d have to move my child from a school that used Everyday math. unless I could convince the school to change curriculum.
Janis
Does the Chicago Math company secretly own Kumon? Everyday Math is used throughout our area schools and let me tell you, business is booming at Kumon. I’d say give it a try. Or switch schools! We did Kumon in Kindergarten/1st grade before our child’s learning disability was diagnosed. It kept him afloat but did advance him. My son is at a private school this summer, with a more traditional math program. He’s flying.
I’d be interested in opinions on Everyday Math and ld kids -have heard different opinions.