All About Primary School Math Enrichment

[Callie Tan]

sean wife:

Hi Callie,


Tried to google but cant find website for Concept Maths...Can you share the contact information please?

Thanks.

Hi I have just PMed you the contacts so please check your inbox...

[Shimmers]

Callie Tan:

Shimmers:

Hi Callie

May I knw which centre did u send your daughter to? Hw old is she?

I send my girl to Concept Math Education Centre @ Goldhill Plaza, next to United Square. It's run by an ex-MOE teacher who has been featured on The Straits Time And Young Parents... My girl is in P1 now and she has been with them since K2.

Thanks Callie.
So is it on group basis? Hw many children per class? Im not able to read anything abt it too..

[Callie Tan]

Shimmers:

Callie Tan:

[quote=\"Shimmers\"]Hi Callie

May I knw which centre did u send your daughter to? Hw old is she?

I send my girl to Concept Math Education Centre @ Goldhill Plaza, next to United Square. It's run by an ex-MOE teacher who has been featured on The Straits Time And Young Parents... My girl is in P1 now and she has been with them since K2.

Thanks Callie.
So is it on group basis? Hw many children per class? Im not able to read anything abt it too..[/quote]Hi, the class is conducted in groups of 8 per class... it's done in a relatively lively manner with a lot of teaching and explanation. Sometimes I look at the amount of work they have done in 1.5 hours which was not much and got a bit worried... but later I realized that was due to the fact that the teacher spent more time talking and getting the kids involved and understood the concepts rather than throwing stacks of worksheets and asking them to do....

There is a lot of parents participation too. Parents are invited to sit in the class if we reach too early to pick our kids rather then waiting outside... Lessons and teaching carry on as normal and that's when you see how your child behaves in class... there's also 10 mins session with parents after class ended to brief us on what has been taught and what we need to look out for, which kind of questions in the worksheets are typically exam questions etc...

My girl enjoys the classes and I am happy with it. So far so good.

[coast]

Laughing:

My DS is in P1 and maths is ok except come to problem sum. He always get confuse with the question though he understand what is 'more than' or 'less than'... I am thinking should I send him for Kumon or MPM to help him? or should I focus to get his English improve?... :roll: It is no point to send him for Maths tuition when what he need is to get his English hor??? Very confuse....

You could go through the problem sums with him together to understand the issues he is facing. Sometimes it could just be kids get distracted by long sentences. You could help by asking him to read and understand sentence by sentence.

[coast]

Callie Tan:

Hi, the class is conducted in groups of 8 per class... it's done in a relatively lively manner with a lot of teaching and explanation. Sometimes I look at the amount of work they have done in 1.5 hours which was not much and got a bit worried... but later I realized that was due to the fact that the teacher spent more time talking and getting the kids involved and understood the concepts rather than throwing stacks of worksheets and asking them to do....

There is a lot of parents participation too. Parents are invited to sit in the class if we reach too early to pick our kids rather then waiting outside... Lessons and teaching carry on as normal and that's when you see how your child behaves in class... there's also 10 mins session with parents after class ended to brief us on what has been taught and what we need to look out for, which kind of questions in the worksheets are typically exam questions etc...

My girl enjoys the classes and I am happy with it. So far so good.

Hi Callie, wow ... that's the first time I heard of an enrichment centre allowing parents to be in the class. I think it's really nice that they have the 10 mins sharing session with parents too. I cannot find Concept Math Education Centre website ... could you share their contacts with me? Thanks.

[Callie Tan]

coast:

Callie Tan:

Hi, the class is conducted in groups of 8 per class... it's done in a relatively lively manner with a lot of teaching and explanation. Sometimes I look at the amount of work they have done in 1.5 hours which was not much and got a bit worried... but later I realized that was due to the fact that the teacher spent more time talking and getting the kids involved and understood the concepts rather than throwing stacks of worksheets and asking them to do....

There is a lot of parents participation too. Parents are invited to sit in the class if we reach too early to pick our kids rather then waiting outside... Lessons and teaching carry on as normal and that's when you see how your child behaves in class... there's also 10 mins session with parents after class ended to brief us on what has been taught and what we need to look out for, which kind of questions in the worksheets are typically exam questions etc...

My girl enjoys the classes and I am happy with it. So far so good.

Hi Callie, wow ... that's the first time I heard of an enrichment centre allowing parents to be in the class. I think it's really nice that they have the 10 mins sharing session with parents too. I cannot find Concept Math Education Centre website ... could you share their contacts with me? Thanks.

Was trying to PM you...but not sure why cannot leh... pls pm me so I can give you the contacts? Thanks

[coast]

Callie Tan:

coast:

Hi Callie, wow ... that's the first time I heard of an enrichment centre allowing parents to be in the class. I think it's really nice that they have the 10 mins sharing session with parents too. I cannot find Concept Math Education Centre website ... could you share their contacts with me? Thanks.

Was trying to PM you...but not sure why cannot leh... pls pm me so I can give you the contacts? Thanks

Hi Callie, just PM you. Seems like Kiasuparents.com made some changes these few days ... the PM button does not seem to work ... I had to write a new message and typed in your id ... hopefully you can get it. Thanks in advance for the info!

[hungry caterpillar]

My P3 child is weak in problem sums solving and I am looking out for Maths enrichment class that focus on this aspect. I understand MPM & Scharff are good in this area. Any views that parents like to share?

[KS_me]

My son is in Scraff for second term now. He did enjoy the lesson however I personally think that they expose the child to higher level mathematics too early. He is P3 but was taught on P4 maths. He does have a bit of problem understanding the method when he re-do the qs at home though.... I'm now in dilema.. not sure to continue or to pull him out... :frustrated:

[Callie Tan]

KS_me:

My son is in Scraff for second term now. He did enjoy the lesson however I personally think that they expose the child to higher level mathematics too early. He is P3 but was taught on P4 maths. He does have a bit of problem understanding the method when he re-do the qs at home though.... I'm now in dilema.. not sure to continue or to pull him out... :frustrated:

Actually I heard many enrichment centres are doing similar methods to so-called \"enhance\" the general standard... By giving P2 questions to the P1s or P3 questions to the P2s... I really do not know whether it is a good idea. I have no qualms with teaching ahead of the school by a term or two, but by a year??? Sometimes it will kill the interests in the subject ....