Math Tutoring Centers - Which One Is Best?

In would opt NOT to go to any of them.

Talk to your child's guidance counselor. MANY teachers tutor for extra income. If you use a teacher within your isd system, your daughter will be taught the way the isd system teaches and will not later be confused.

Most of the teacher tutors are about $50/hour and well worth the one on one experience.

We've used teacher tutors for refreshers, etc to maintain some of the AP classes that are so hard at 16 yrs old.

They have online-based ones. The child takes an assessment, the website determines where they are academically, and there are quizzes, lessons, etc. based on where the child is.

www.factortree.com is one. My 7-year-old used it for a while for fun, she loved it. It does cost money.

i had a student that was helped a great deal with kumon. i dont know too much about it, but to me it seemed to help him mostly with rote memorization, figuring numbers easily, etc. for him it was perfect because he didnt have much trouble with concepts, but definitely needed extra time and effort to work on them, and learning the rote equations really did seem to take a lot of stress off of him and free him up more to spend the time he needed. it depends where the trouble lies. i had another student who had a horrible time with math and i recommended she get tested for visual perception problems because i evaluated where she was having trouble, and i could see that she was shifting numbers in equations, moving them out of place as she was doing problems. she got visual perception therapy and it helped her so much too, over time,,, gave her (and me) tricks to help her keep things in place, etc.... a good evaluation is the key to finding the right solution for your daughter.

We have liked our daughter's experience at Mathnasium the past two summers and are sending her again this summer. I can't compare it to Kumon or Sylvan because we didn't even look at them, but I do know they do things other than math, and Mathnasium is only math, so the instructors have just a single focus. Mathnasium doesn't do one-on-one, every second; it does one-on-one, as needed, so the child comes in, gets the worksheets and personal instruction and help, then gets going on the work while the tutor moves to another child to get that child started, answer a question, etc. When your child has a question, needs help or is done and needs the work checked, the tutor returns to her. I think it works well. The atmosphere at our Mathnasium (DC area) has been very calm and quiet.Just our two cents. Give them a visit. If your daughter needs tutoring because of specific issues, be certain they wil cover those issues -- they use a curriculum they tend to keep in-house (they don't send home any of the worksheets, which I wish they would, but they seem to see them as their proprietary curriculum). That would be my only concern about them, if you really want to see what she's doing and keep her work.

I personally used the Kumon math tutoring when I was in 4th and 5th grade. I didn't know my multiplication tables and addition and subtraction were also a struggle. At the time I hated it because you have to do a math page every night plus go to the facility once or twice a week and do extra math there and it would just take me forever! I would seriously be one of the first ones there and be the last or next to last to leave, like 3 hours just doing 50 problems or less! But now I am glad my mom "forced" me to do it. I think the repetition helped me the most. Good luck!

I worked a t Sylvan for a few years. It is a GREAT company with a program that works!