All About Primary School Math Enrichment

[ladeline28]

Hi all,


Can anyone advise me which centre is suitable for my son to train him to be more focus.

He is very careless in his work e.g. missed out a number in transferring answer from workings to equation, or did addition in the subtraction workings or vice versa, etc. I will normally find careless mistakes in his homework even though he said he had checked his work. He gave away 20 over marks due to careless mistakes in last year’s CA2 and also SA2 exams.

Can anyone who has similar problem share with me what to do to help him improve?

[MdmQ]

jiyou2003:

Just heard that there will be more n more problem sum for Maths (DS in P2 for 2011) n MPM will not be suitable. Was told to go for Just Education.

DS started Jelic and follow with MPM.
Like to hv some feedback.
(hd posted this Q wrongly under All about Pre-school ...)

Do you have any feedback the teachers in MPM Tampines Central? tks

[mamemo]

My boy has been on mpm since k2. Since he started late, even though he is in P1 now, he is still on the k2 books. The MPM teachers said that he’ll start on MPM P1 after he finish all the k2 books.


Is it too late by then ? should I request for him to start on the P1 books immediately ?

Can parents feedback whether MPM is really useful for P1 - P3 ? Cos when my boy does the Andrew Er’s assessment books, we find that he still cannot understand certain maths concepts.

[i3mum]

Can someone recommend good math enrichment class for primary schooler? P1 onwards?

[titank]

Check your PM!

[fuqi]

Hi titank,

Can you recommend me some good math enrichment class for lower primary
too? Thank you.

[warmchoccake]

Being quite a new ‘kiasu parent’, I only started my children in enrichments lessons this year. Now they are 5 and 7. My friend referred me into E.nopi Math and English. Now my children are more motvated to study and are more interested in studying. Previously, it was a chore just to get them to do any work.


The worksheets and colourful and full of activities. Although the lower levels so not really coincide with the local schools, it is a good supplement to what they are learning in school. I can see my P1 boy grasping the concepts faster. The critical thinking especially is fantastic.

It takes a lot of pressure off and I guess the most important thing is that they are improving and enjoying it at the same time.

BTW, I heard they having a free registration this month.

[Rabbit02]

Enopi math is worksheet based. I find it boring for children. Worksheet based learning is equivalent to practice blindly which does not make it perfect.


Children should enjoy childhood. Experential learning or game based enrichment programs are better for children. Learning while playing is better than going for worksheet based programs such as Enopi.

[Monster Mummy]

Rabbit02:

Enopi math is worksheet based. I find it boring for children. Worksheet based learning is equivalent to practice blindly which does not make it perfect.


Children should enjoy childhood. Experential learning or game based enrichment programs are better for children. Learning while playing is better than going for worksheet based programs such as Enopi.

I think this is quite subjective and depend on individual kids. Of course, we agreed that children should enjoy their childhood up to certain age. But when they reach the pre-primary stage, we will need to slowly build up their foundation. Some course with experential learning or game based may aroused the children but to kids, is still more of the fun and may not really triggered or registered in their head.

Ultimately, it stil depend on the calibre of the individual kid on what type of program suitable for them.

[Rabbit02]

I feel that as long as they are children, they should enjoy their childhood. Their childhood should not stop at pre-primary level. Building foundation in children does not mean that we parents should deprive them of their childhood. Children can still play and learn at the same time.


I find worksheets based programs such as Enopi, Kumon etc do not give value for money because they do not actually teach the child concepts. Can they really understand concepts by just doing worksheets or are they just practising blindly? This is important as it sets the foundation for their future. They will struggle when they are teenagers.