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Kumon
I have a son that is in the eighth grade and he is having such a hard time in algebra...i wanted to know if anyone could give me any feedback on kumon...
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I did Kumon for a few years. I finished the reading program and I reached Level N in Math. In my experience, Kumon helped me a lot. Currently, in college, I've learned that studying Math is basically solving lots of problem sets and just plain practicing.
When I was in grade school, I didn't really have to study Math since I was talking Kumon. During high school, I had an easy time of Math because I was already doing advanced work in Kumon. I hardly needed to study math at all. Now, though, since I stopped, I have to practice and solve sample problems constantly. It's kind of like Kumon, but with less worksheets (there are only 40 or so problems in my problem sets).
All in all, I think it depends on the child, as well. The independent learning worked for me. Others might want things explained step by step. (I don't like that coz it's spoon feeding.)
Just take note that if your child does go to Kumon, it's gonna take a lot of patience. The tendency is for children to start at a level lower than their current grade level. It's good practice, actually, but some children might not see it that way (a reason why it's best if children start Kumon really early). They just have to keep at it and persevere. Hard work usually pays off in the end.
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I went to Kumon for several years as a child for math and later for reading. Basically the concept is that in order to get good at something you need to do problems over and over again. While I was there, I got lists of addition questions that I had to do - basically it improves how fast you can do simple equations. Personally, I hated it because it was so repetitive, but it does help improve how fast you can divide, multiply, add, ect.
I'm not sure how kumon is for algebra, but I do know that algebra involves more of an ability to think outside the box while solving problems, to some extent, which I'm not sure Kumon teaches. You could look into the program, but I'd personally recommend something like a tutor.
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You can try to use this site www.math.com and see if that helps rather then use Kumon or anything else of that type until it gets to bad or doesnt seem to help.
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Kumon??
Ususally theres something in your algerbra book with a website than can help you if you don't understand it. Algebra was really hard for me as well.
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