After the summer holidays, that’s the time when many children are being signed up for extra tuition. The high demand for maths tuition is not surprising. Maths is one of the most important school subjects. But what is a good maths education? And what is good maths tuition?
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Kumon is considered to be the largest supplementary education provider in the UK and Ireland. Its approach to learning is different to traditional methods, and is based on self-learning programmes.
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If you are looking for tutoring in your area, there is a good chance that you have a Kumon centre just round the corner. Many Kumon centres are offering a Free Trial from 1 September till 31 October.
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These uncertain times have seen an unprecedented demand for private maths tuition. But the explosive growth of the private tutoring market has fundamental cause, which predates the Covid-19 pandemic.
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How parents can help to develop their child’s maths skills at home, in-line with the new curriculum standards.
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The impact of “teaching for the test” is not a good way to learn mathematics and can have devastating effect on young children.
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…and other symptoms of poor teaching We all expect our children to learn maths. But what if, despite hours of
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The question that parents often ask me is whether the maths programme that we offer can help to prepare a child for school entrance exams. Yes, it can. Maths papers set by top schools contain many challenging and non-standard problems, which are quite different from school maths. Children that follow our program are not new to such challenges.
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It appears that suffering and struggling with maths is a curse, affecting many children and passing from generation to generation.
Isn’t it time to break the spell? All we need to do is to change to conceptual and more personalised teaching!
The rote learning of mathematics is not only largely ineffective; it is also harmful in the long term. . . My opinion is that such memory-aids block children’s minds, preventing them from thinking and reasoning.
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The teaching of maths should be age appropriate, systematic, and engaging: everything that the current teaching of maths in England is not. . . .
There is vast international expertise about how to teach mathematics to young children to achieve the best results. The most effective way to improve the teaching of maths in England is to look at this expertise seriously.
