When Gaea Jazlin Tondo passed the Acceleration Test from kindergarten to grade two, Mr. Joel and Mrs. Genevieve Tonido tried to find a program that will prepare Gaea for grade two since she will be tackling advanced materials. They would pass by the Kumon Center whenever they would go to work and go home, and they saw that it offered Mathematics. So, they
Kumon Philippines shares the Kumon Reading Program can discover and develop your child’s potential
One great piece of advice that all parents can attest to is that you should read to your children especially when they are young. This is often shared and emphasized in books, seminars, and through word of mouth. But when you agree and start to read to your children, are you familiar with the specific advantages they can gain? Do you know just
From then until now, it is still a fact that a lot of people often say that being good at math equates to a lot of opportunities. You can still vividly remember all the achievements of your classmates who were considered math wizards. Even your parents were pushing for you to be just as good as them. You may not have understood what
To develop strong calculation skills in order to enable children to self-study high school mathematics with ease.
This was the goal that Toru Kumon, the Kumon Method founder, made when he started to develop the Kumon Math worksheets for his son, Takeshi. He discovered that Takeshi’s school workbooks contained a wide range of topics with some of them not necessarily addressing the need to develop calculation skills. This is why the Kumon Math worksheets do not contain all the math topics that your child is studying in school. Unlike the school curriculum which encompasses a number of topics, only those topics that are essential to achieve the goal of the method have been included in the Kumon Math Program. […]
As a new year has started, the Kumon Philippines Blog also starts anew. Welcome to the KPI Blog! Feel free to browse our past articles and watch out for what we have in store for you as we craft more articles and related content that will surely hook your interest. Stay tuned as we start to regularly share how the Kumon Method can positively
In 1954, Toru Kumon, a father and a high school mathematics teacher decided to create learning materials that would help his son, Takeshi, develop strong calculation skills to enable him to study mathematics with ease. From there, his son started to excel in school and was able to solve problems in differential and integral calculus by the sixth grade. Toru Kumon then believed that what was possible for one child could also be possible for more, if not all, children. Thus, he set out to offer the same learning materials to as many children as possible. This was the start of the Kumon Method.
