CMA Math - Discussion

[sleepy]

[email protected]:

Hi,


I am interested to send my 6 yrs old girl to attend CMA abacus oso. Can anyone give advise on the different of CMA abacus vs Kumon.

Both involve mental calculation.
abacus also uses 'apparatus' and need to memorise a certain set of formulae
Kumon is plain drilling until the child masters addition/subtration, no formulae

Can't say which is more superior. Depends on your child, whether can tahan daily worksheets (Kumon) or memorise the rather complex formulae (abacus)

[elle_yv.03429hotmail.03429com]

she learns few mths back at CC for basic abacus.


Out of 20 question she only do 1/2 correctly, consider a bit slow.

After read thru all the members discussion in this topic thought of putting her back to abacus.

Worried need a lot of hard work, coz previously i sit in in together with her for the class so be able to teach her at home.

I find it like quite tough as a working mum that we need to work daytime & have to attend the class together with them.

[sleepy]

[email protected]:

she learns few mths back at CC for basic abacus.


Out of 20 question she only do 1/2 correctly, consider a bit slow.

After read thru all the members discussion in this topic thought of putting her back to abacus.

Worried need a lot of hard work, coz previously i sit in in together with her for the class so be able to teach her at home.

I find it like quite tough as a working mum that we need to work daytime & have to attend the class together with them.

Maybe she's not ready? or you may want to trial another method to find which one best suit her?

After taking abacus for almost 1.5 year, I stopped my girl's lessons. She need to add/minus a long string of numbers, too overwhelming for her until she sees stars, only 3 out of 10 correct. Right now we continue with home practice until she's ready to resume.

In fact, I have not decided whether to resume her. In primary school, the child is not required to add/minus a long string of numbers anyway so I wonder is it necessary to go to the advanced stage of abacus to churn out those big numbers?

[elle_yv.03429hotmail.03429com]

Hi Sleepy,


Thanks for your valuable advice.

Read from this web got parents advise to go for MPM.

Can any parents with kids study from MPM give some valuable advice?

Many thanks!

[H2O]

My son is attending MPM since he was in Mid-K2.

Like the way the questions were structured.
Now I had sent him to abacus class.
My son belongs to the type that doesn’t like drilling and he doesn’t really enjoy abacus as much as MPM.

[elle_yv.03429hotmail.03429com]

Thanks for your advice H20.


May I ask that you said you prefer MPM question were structured, but why you change to abacus at later part?

[H2O]

My son is still attending MPM.


He is in P1 now.
the school has the abacus class conducted by 3rd party.
Being Kiasu, I wanted him to learn Abacus so that he can do his mental calculation faster.
End of the day, it doesn’t help much as my son doesn’t like the drilling…

[elle_yv.03429hotmail.03429com]

OIC, thanks for your advice.


Will consider MPM vs Kumon.

[H2O]

You are welcome…


But again, different centre has different quality of teachers…
Check out the centre and talks to the teacher 1st.

FYI, it is their materials that is really good
I’d recommended to a few of my friends…

[hugeclaw]

Just to share my experiences…have started my boy in a cc abacus class, initial idea is to let him try out the class coz he’s K1 at that time and worried that he may not be able to cope. It was a BIG mistake! The cc teacher is loud and fierce, the class size is abt 15 and rowdy, and due to different level (and age) of students in that particular class, my son is the youngest and often gets neglected or even ‘bullied’ by his classmates.

After 2 weeks of his constant begging, I’ve decided to stop his class. Then a friend recommanded me to CMA at Kovan, it’s a total different scenario. The teachers are so much more friendly. The class size is abt 10 per session with normally 2 teachers in the class. The person-in-charge is personally coaching the students as well. Feedback will be given to the parents before or after each session, whr your kid is coping well, how to coach them on a particular formula or when they have to start on a new book. More importantly, my boy who has been there for 10 months now is enjoying his classes and he can do addition/substraction up to hundreds. Ha, now I very relaxed with his school work, only need to spend time doing english writing and chinese with him at home.