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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Education |
Founded | 11 July 1958 |
Founder | Toru Kumon |
Key people | Hidenori Ikegami, President |
Products | Kumon Math and Kumon Native Language (varies by country) |
Subsidiaries | Kumon América do Sul Instituto de Educação Ltda. Kumon Asia & Oceania Pte. Ltd. |
Website | www.kumon.org |
Kumon Institute Education Co. Ltd. is an educational network based in Japan and created by Toru Kumon. It uses his Kumon Method to teach mathematics and reading primarily for young students. [1]
Kumon was founded by Toru Kumon, a Japanese educator, in July 1958, when he opened the first Kumon Maths Centre in Moriguchi, Osaka. Prior to creating the Kumon franchise, Kumon taught at Kochi Municipal High School and Tosa Junior/Senior High School. Inspired by teaching his own son, Takeshi, Kumon developed a curriculum focused on rote memorization. [2]
Kumon initially grew slowly, only gaining 63,000 students over its first 16 years. However, in 1974, Kumon published a book titled The Secret of Kumon Math, leading to a doubling of its size in the next two years. [2] Kumon opened their first United States locations in 1983, [3] and by 1985, Kumon reached 1.4 million students. [2]
Kumon attracted national attention in the United States after it was implemented at Sumiton Elementary School, in Sumiton, Alabama. This was the first instance in which an American school integrated the Kumon Math Method into the regular K–4 mathematics curriculum. [3] Sumiton continued to use the Kumon program through 2001, and influenced other schools to also adopt the Kumon method in their curriculum. [4]
As of 2008, Kumon had over 26,000 centers around the globe with over 4 million registered students. [5] As of 2018, there were 410,000 students enrolled in 2,200 centers across the United States. [6]
In North America, Kumon began a "Junior Kumon" program in 2001, targeted at children aged 2–5 years old. [7]
Kumon is an enrichment or remedial program, where instructors and assistants tailor instruction for individual students. [8]
All Kumon programs are pencil-and-worksheet-based, with a digital program starting in 2023. The worksheets increase in difficulty in small increments. The program recommends that students study 30 minutes per subject on their own for five days of the week, and visit their local Kumon Center or attend a virtual class the other two days. [9] [10] [ non-primary source needed ]
Psychologist Kathy Hirsh-Pasek claims that using such techniques for 2, 3, and 4-year-olds "does not give your child a leg up on anything", [11] though studies have observed a high percentage of efficacy. [12]
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Toru Kumon was a Japanese mathematics educator, born in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from the College of Science at Osaka University with a degree in mathematics and taught high school mathematics in his home town of Osaka. In 1954, his son, Takeshi, performed poorly in a Year 2 mathematics test. Prompted by his wife, Teiko, Toru closely examined Takeshi's textbooks and believed they lacked the proper opportunity for a child to practice and master a topic. As a result, he began to handwrite worksheets each day for his son. By the time Takeshi was in Year 6, he was able to solve differential and integral calculus usually seen in the final years of high school. This was the beginning of the Kumon Method of Learning.
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