Kumon v Kip McGrath

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We have both where we live and DD1 needs extra help. For reasons too long to go into I cannot do extra work at the moment so need to choose which one. Does anyone have any views please

ive never heard of kumon , but i do know kip mcgrath are very good , my sister used them for her staderd grade in english she was achiving grades of a 4 and sometimes even as low as a 5 in cclass so she started going to kip mcgrath and over\all in her exam she acived a grade of 2 x

My son has been to kip and we have been pleased with it. Kip McGarth employs proper teachers and they make your child do the work where as I believe with Kumon the parent has to make the child do the worksheets. The parent also has to mark the worksheet. I believe Kumon is cheaper.

Kumon- death by worksheets
Kip- a range of activities including written and computer activities.

My DD did her 11+ tuition with them and it was fab.

I know loads of people who use a range of different centres around here (not just for 11+) and they are all really pleased with it.

Proper qualified teachers who understand the national curriculum.

Choose Kumon. My brother had his son with Kip and feedback was that the sessions were just too long and at the end of the day, kids can't concentrate for huge periods of time, especially AFTER a day at school. We've been with Kumon for a little over 2 years and my nephew now attends his local centre too. Big bro says they're finding it much better. It's just a little each day and not too long a slog for him anymore.

Don't know about kip but do know about Kumon maths. They have to do 7 worksheets a week (one a day) and they take around 10 minutes each.

It starts off on a low level and is very repetitive so that they gain confidence with it. The difference I've noticed is that my six year old - who was switching off and not listening in maths sessions at school, can now do things in her head rather than laboriously counting on her fingers and then wondering what to do when she'd run out of fingers. She's really quick at adding 2, 3, 4 to any numbers up to around 500. We've been doing it for a few months now.

I think the worksheets look obvious but that they are actually cleverly designed to keep stretching them but only a tiny bit at a time so that they don't really notice that it's harder. The only downside is that it is quite slow progress but on the other hand, very thorough.

The difficult thing for us is getting ours to do the worksheets because her concentration was so poor. But lately she's doing them and slowly she's improving. We go in to see the teacher once a week to hand in the worksheets and collect new ones. Older children can stay and do a maths paper there if they want to. Yes I do mark the papers but it takes less than a minute for each one, so not really too bad.

DS started Kumon maths aged 5 and he stopped at the end of Year 6 at which point he was two years ahead of the national average.

It suited us because it was done at home so no travelling apart from the once a week trip to drop off and pick up new work.

I would recommend Kumon but whether it suits your DC is a question that I obviously can't answer.

I'm not familiar with Kip so I can't compare the two.