fun maths

[tutortrace]

Hi,
I am an experienced tutor and primary teacher with a passion for maths!
I'm just starting to look at some small group fun workshops with primary children.
I want to help younger children as it's so important to catch them young!
Would you be prepared spend as much money on groups for younger children ( say year 1 to year 3) as you would on groups for older primary children?
Do you think fun maths works as an idea that is as good as formal tuition? ( would you pay as much if it is promoted as 'fun' rather than as academic?
Do you have any thought or ideas to help me?

I am new to mumsnet so sorry if i'm using the wrong area to ask questions.
all comments appreciated.

I know of groups that do this. One combines maths and physical activity.
I personally wouldn’t pay for it. That’s not because I don’t see it as important but for 2 reasons. 1 - my child doesn’t need it, he’s ahead and passionate about maths. 2 - we do fun maths activities so I don’t need to pay for it.

@Idontgiveagriffindamn
Thanks so much for taking the time to respond. i really appreciate this and it will help me with how I continue to market things; My workshops are more about finding ways to package the formal content needed in a different way to traditional tuition; perhaps it's as much about learning in a fun group situation rather than in a school or one to one setting. (both of which I do a lot of and both of which have value too!)
Anyway, thanks for helping me voice my ideas more.

My issue with this is that if I am spending money on an out of school activity, I spend it on things they don’t get to do at school, so ballet lessons, horse riding, swimming lessons etc. I’d personally never pay for tutoring for infant age kids. If my child was struggling, I’d be able to help her myself at that level.

@tutortrace hope you’re able to make a go of it. I think there’s definitely a need to get kids more interested in maths.
We do things like play maths based board games, make our own games up, weighing out ingredients and doubling / tripling / halving the recipe. He loves times table rock star and had stolen my daily mathler puzzle!

I would hope that school makes maths (and all subjects) fun to learn, especially in the first few years. So, as above, I wouldn’t pay for my child to learn a core subject out of school, no.

I am not ready to pay for such groups, because there are enough materials and activities on the Internet that can be easily used at home without having special training. I worked with my son math worksheets kindergarten wunderkiddy.com/category/mathematics. It was fun, interesting, he completed tasks with pleasure and he did not need any group.