totoro:So mpm is better than CMA?
Every programmes have their strength. It depends on what you want your child to pick up. Better you visit the centres and view their materials before you decide which programmes suits your child's needs.
totoro:So mpm is better than CMA?
babynistar03:My son is in K1 and was told by Tampines CPF branch to sign him up for Jelic and move to MPM when in K2. My son joined in Mar'13 and loves the class so I'm ok with it. Just spoke to the teacher in charge and apparently its better to build a strong foundation with Jelic before moving to MPM.
As Jelic and MPM is more on maths concepts and logic. Do I still need to send him to Abacus class? I've read the forum on Abacus training but still worried that my son might be confused when enter P1 with abacus. Any thoughts?
Es_q:Any feedback on Bangkit branch (bt panjang)? Tks.
disneymummy:Hi
Anyone has amk contacts? Been calling but unable to get through the lines.
Any mummies can help to comment thomson and amk branch?
Appreciate ur kind help
Thanks
Imami:Hi bigdevil, where is the bishan br? I only know of one bishan br but it closed/moved off already. Not sure where they have moved to.[/quote]:?BigDevil:[quote=\"SAHM_TAN\"]You should have the materials with you for 2 wks. The first wk is when your child brings it home to complete the bk. The teachers will return the bks when they completed marking and you will bring it back to them during the next lesson.
So far we only get to keep the books for 1 week.
DS will bring the 2 books back, work on them, and hand them in
at the beginning of the next class....and that's it! We don't see
them coming back to us again. That's why I made sure I looked
through DS' work before the books are given back to the centre.
Perhaps each centre has different practice?
My DS is in the Bishan branch.
sweetbaby:HI
What does MPM lesson looks like? From what I read they complete booklets? Dp everyone in the class complete same booklets or depending on the child's ability? Do the teaccher teach a certain topic first? use of manipulatives? How abut class size? I just need to have an idea how the lesson proceeds before signing up for Ds as he works best in certain conditions only cos of his special needs. Thx u.
“Being kiasu also has it’s advantage. At least now your girl is in a very good primary school.”
funny, I don’t rem mentioning anything abt my kids gender or what school they are from, do u know me or mistaken me for someone else?
Hi all,
Newbie here. Was looking around this site and chance upon MPM, I took interest in this tread becos both my kids (9 n 7 yrs old) are in it for the past 3 years (wouldn’t say which centre…sorry). After going thru pages and pages of complaints (often) and praise (quite seldom), I was quite amazed at what people think of MPM.
Being a kiasu parent, we send both our kids to enrichment classes since they were very young, as far as I can rem they have attended most of the popular class available in Singapore. Most of the centres here especially those established program like MPM, Learning lab, I Can Read, Berries, Shichida, Mind Matters etc have very strict rules and policy with regards to deposit, changing of class, last minute cancellation, make up lesson. Very often, we as parent tends to get upset just becos we can’t get what we want and very often it is us that aren’t following the policy and wants to make a fuss out of it.
I’m not speaking on behalf of any centres or have relative owing any franchise, we are victims ourselves too. Quite frankly, many times I admit we are the one that is trying our luck and get rebutted simply these centres are running very professionally with proper records. Put yourself in their shoe, what if you have arranged the teachers and allocate the seats for the student who can’t make it hours before the class starts…they are running a business.
I relate to the parent as above who have issue with wrong marking, we had the same case and feedback to the teachers, seriously what can we do…nothing much, at most we leave. The reason we continue since they are K1 is this program helps them to think creatively and most importantly they ENJOY the class!!!
These are just my two cents after so many enrichment classes…