Originally Posted by Val
Originally Posted by Loy58
I am going to guess that the Mathnasium experience varies greatly from location to location. We tried the one closest to us requesting "enrichment," and did not think the learning justified the high cost. They seemed to be simply assigning grade-level worksheets and not allowing our DC to move quickly though the material. DC enjoyed it, but DC is social (and liked the lollipops they provided)! I don't think it HURT DC, but I can't really say it helped much, either.

That's really interesting.

Around here, they're very specific about their service being focused on what the child needs. They told me that some of their kids do their homework at the Mathnasium, while others follow Mathnasium materials, and still others do what Mom or Dad sends with the kid (in our case, DS does Singapore Math there).

DrummerLiz, my advice would be to quiz the whoever runs your local Mathnasium about their local policies.

Our experience has been the same as Val's. And ours is definitely flexible - If DS said he was interested in learning something - they would teach him it, if he were getting stuck on something at school (explaining you work for example) he could work on that. He had nice tutors - one was a lovely older man who used to teach high school math. He was great and he would say "I like how your son thinks!" They would scribe for him. He liked the logic games too. We have had a good experience and I didn't find it terribly expensive - but b/c we were doing it as enrichment we did more of a pro-rated thing... I did have a coupon that got my son a free eval and waived "registration fee" so that saved me $150 ... But compared to the other tutoring places and such in my area it was quite reasonably priced. I can imagine it could definitely differ from location to location though.