I used to work as an assistant in a KUMON center near my hosing area for 6 months after my SPM. Well, my job is to mark the students worksheet given to them each week for each day of the week.And i still wonder how it can improve ones mathemathics by sheer repeating the same question over and over again until the student get a 100% for the level. starting from A3,A2,A1,B,C and so on until Q(i tink so). each week they come to the center, given wrksheet for a week(which may be the same for each day) do thei worksheet for tat day at the center, i mark, they do the corrections and they go home. the maximum time a student spend time there is only 10-20 minutes depends on the number of students there. And the monthly fees cost a whopping Rm130!!
i personally feel mental arithemathic is way much better, i take classes in it from age 4 until form3 and stop to focus on my SPM. during my time it only cost RM250/level. The duration of each level is depends on u. this course really helps a lot to do qucik calculations during my lower forms. in SPM the usage of calculator kills my speed of calculating. LOL

Ps. the fact that a child is able to finish a few hundreds of questions in just minutes is questinable. the child might have done the same question for a dozens of times. and the questions in each worksheets are repetitive. for eq. 2+5 , and juz a few questions after tat is 5+2...

This post has been edited by loveuallso: Jun 13 2008, 11:02 PM

Math in school has no single connections with KUMON math! School math are way much complicated than KUMON. And one more ting, KUMON don't work for every person. I dont go for KUMON but i still score an A for my MM and AM. Same goes for my classmates who score A's for AM and MM too.