<p>Just wondering if any CC'ers are in it, and how it's worked for them. I'm forcing myself to slog through O level right now...it reminds me eerily of last year's calc class. Overall I'm glad I'm in it.</p>
<p>My first thread...raptures! :)</p>
<p>Ooh, Kumon.</p>
<p>I absolutely HATED it. I quit in K level.
Ugh, it didn't work for me. The owner/instructor refused to let me test up even though I had already learned that stuff in school. Grr</p>
<p>I tried it for math. It didn't work for me, I switched to UMPTYPM. But, it works for some.</p>
<p>I did Kumon for about 3 weeks. I eventually quit.</p>
<p>Never did Kumon. I worked there, though. The highest level anyone got up to at our center was...L, maybe?</p>
<p>Working there wasn't a picnic either.</p>
<p>^ yeah, i know. for me it was three hours straight on Sat. morning or Wed. afternoon. sometimes i would sneak in frosted mini wheats and EAT THEM! O__O</p>
<p>My son tried it about 15 years ago -- and even though he loved math, he quit after three weeks also.</p>
<p>Interesting. I wonder if anyone ever sticks with it, and whether they find it worthwhile.</p>
<p>Kumon might be helpful when you're like 4, but past that, especially in high school, I think there are better ways to learn math.</p>
<p>I was in it for about 6 or 7 months in 6th grade.
It helped alot, but then I got to the point where it stopped helping. So I quit.
(I was in it for Math)</p>
<p>kumon classes are garbage</p>
<p>I started in like...2nd grade and went until....7th? I thought it helped a lot. But for the majority my mom ordered it home and I worked on it at home.</p>
<p>It didn't really help me increase my math skills per say...but it definitely helped in speed and non-calculator calculations. I guess because of Kumon I think it's stupid when students reach for the calculator for easy calculations.</p>
<p>Haaate >:[</p>
<p>I did some of my brother's old ones, but I was never able to finish as much as my mom wanted. She kind of gave up on my finishing my brother's worksheets.</p>
<p>I did Kumon for about half a year, back in 4th grade. I mean, you fake your way through a bunch of packets, score in the 90s on the tests, and boom you're at "9th grade level". Wait, WHAT? I didn't understand how doing a "year's worth of stuff" in 20 days can possibly happen. I'm actually in 9th grade now and the level of analysis we're doing on our readings cannot compare to those time-pressured answers of Kumon.
As for the math section, I don't see how it was any better. Maybe if I had gone through hundreds of pages of arithmetic at a younger age, it would have helped me with my computations (I'm still terrible at addition). But I started on the fractions level, and I didn't understand any of it. The method they taught us to find a common denominator, I didn't even know how or why that worked.
Overall, Kumon at the higher-elementary levels and above, are just skimming. To actually have a deep understanding of reading and math, one needs more than what is found in those packets.</p>
<p>since im korean, i go to hawgon. its similiar to kumon just different names basically. but i honestly hated it. stopped going since my freshman year.</p>
<p>lol! Kumon! That's like... where every kid works in my town. <em>sigh</em> Those poor little kids getting taught by my somewhat-inept friends.</p>
<p>kumon F<em>*ingly sucks. hate that place. it was pure He</em>. hate it.</p>
<p>Kumon helped me a lot in elementary school. It got me into the advanced classes. Math has never really been hard for me at school because of it. Yeah, actually doing the work in it is hard, and sometimes I didn’t feel like doing it, but in the end it was totally worth it. I wish I had stuck with it longer, actually.</p>
<p>Haha this is such an old topic, but idc. I felt like giving my input.</p>
<p>I never did it. Has anyone had experience working there? How’s the pay?</p>
<p>It was good when I was doing basic math, but I stopped at the algebra level. I don’t think it would have been advantageous to continue since I wouldn’t want to rush doing the math that I’m doing now.</p>