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Q: What is Kumon and what do you do? |
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A: Kumon is the world’s largest and oldest after-school
education program, originating over 50 years ago in Japan as a math
program. We offer two different subjects: Math and Reading. Students
visit our center once or twice a week, and spend about twenty to thirty
minutes per subject while at the center. The price is the same
regardless if weekly visits are missed. Students also complete short
daily assignments at home each day they do not come to the Center. We
test each student to determine his starting point in the program. This
starting point will be lower than the material the student is working
on at school, to ensure that we start the student below any gaps in
ability. The child then proceeds at his own pace into harder
material. Kumon aims for mastery of each concept. Mastery is determined
by not just accuracy, but independence and speed as well.
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