Enrichment Programs for Maths Modelling

[snow123]

any more feedback for great minds tution? how do they conduct lesson with 1 and a half hour? 30 mins teaching and an hour for the kids to do worksheets? any homework thereafter? do you find the tution class useful for your kid? my son is in P2, currently i am looking for maths tution for him to enhanced problem solving and thinking skills

[karinchung]

Tried great mind tuition, it started off well but my girl lost interest as the class is slightly big and the teaching style is homework & practice. I have turn to private tutor for my girl, he doesnt encourage homework and is patient. You might want to try considering private tution for you kid as the kid will get more attention from 1 to 1. Btw, my tutor charges at $25 per hour.

[snow123]

Thanks for your feedback. Hiow big is the class? and how much is the charges at greatmind?

[karinchung]

My girl was in a class of 10-15 students. I pay $70 for a lesson.

[HCH]

GreatMinds is very strong in math modeling. They are probably the best in SG in this area. They even have workshops (usually in school holiday) to teach parents how to coach your kids math modeling. I attended it and found it useful. The 2 PhD founders developed about 10 levels of modeling to cover all primary level math questions from easiest to most difficult.


I think modeling is very important in Singapore primary level Math, as our kids can not grasp algebra concepts at this young age, yet the questions are soooo difficult …some of them I myself also can not resolve…Using models seems to be the only way to help them out…

For primary level math, they charge $20 per hour. The class is 2 hrs… karinchung, your $70 is probably their competition class? Heard they are very strong in math competition training also. Got students winning top awards in competitions like Singapore Math Olympiad every year…

[laughingcat]

HCH:

GreatMinds is very strong in math modeling. They are probably the best in SG in this area.

Hi HCH,

Are you a teacher at GreatMinds? Is there any evidence or article sharing that GreatMinds is the best in Maths Modeling that you can share? Coz as a parent, I would really like to know what is my options.

[HCH]

Hi laughingcat,

I attended their workshop and was quite impressed. The principal, a PhD from China, designed a very comprehensive system with about 10 modeling methods to resolve math questions of various levels. Personally I found it is very useful. If parents can coach and have time, you may want to attend the workshop to get a better idea of modeling method in primary math, so that you can coach your kids. If not, I guess you can put your kids in their school as the same method is taught in their center.

By the way, all other workshops are all free, but this one for modeling is chargable, about $50 for a 2-3 hours session.

In fact, I got to know about this center because my friend's daughter is with them. His daughter won platinum award of Singapore Primary Math Olympiad this year. So looks they are really strong in Math although it is still a quite new center.

laughingcat:

HCH:

GreatMinds is very strong in math modeling. They are probably the best in SG in this area.

Hi HCH,

Are you a teacher at GreatMinds? Is there any evidence or article sharing that GreatMinds is the best in Maths Modeling that you can share? Coz as a parent, I would really like to know what is my options.

[laughingcat]

Hi HCH, thank you thank you for sharing. I might want to attend the workshop to see how good are the teachers. If good, I might want to consider them as well. Thank you.

[HCH]

laughingcat,

You are welcome!

laughingcat:

Hi HCH, thank you thank you for sharing. I might want to attend the workshop to see how good are the teachers. If good, I might want to consider them as well. Thank you.

[naomikoh]

karinchung:

My girl was in a class of 10-15 students. I pay $70 for a lesson.

10-15 students in a class cannot work for math.

I would expect $70/lesson the number of student per class would be fewer.

I have explored and I have narrow down to three choice On sponge, learning lab or JEI PSLE.