80% of my Asian friends took this extra math class as kids: any other ideas?

http://www.lunchboxmoms.com/boston/rd-1368/kumon---andover.html

by lwc123 • 15 years ago

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tokenadult• 15 years ago

Kumon is not too bad. (Disclaimer: my sister-in-law in Taiwan used to be a Kumon teacher there, back before when I had children.) Some of the stronger students in the supplemental math program I teach are Kumon alumni.

But there are plenty of other good math programs. I use ALEKS regularly for all of my children,

http://www.aleks.com/

there is also EPGY,

http://epgy.stanford.edu/

and especially there is Art of Problem Solving,

http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/index.php?

with its vibrant online community and very challenging online courses.

And of course Khan Academy

http://www.khanacademy.org/

is free to users (supported by foundations) and still developing. And there are local math circle programs

http://www.mathcircles.org/

and supplemental class programs like mine.

So Kumon is good, and perhaps helpful for your family, but it is not strictly necessary.

ekm• 15 years ago

Aops is the best

craigmc• 15 years ago

Presumably Khan Academy is a major alternative these days...

80% of my Asian friends took this extra math class as kids: any other ideas?

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