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From managing your own time, to being able to focus on your true interests and passions, self-employment puts you in the driving seat and comes with many benefits.

If you're considering becoming your own boss, read on for our handy guide to help you take those first steps into the world of working for yourself.

Today marks National Pi Day! To celebrate the event, we've listed some ways to remember some of the digits or this lengthy constant.

Doing calculations without carries and borrows is a more advanced calculation skill and by working in this way a child expands their mental capacity and develops greater mental agility as compared to the child who needs to write down carries and borrows.

Building your child's self-confidence will empower them to handle a variety of situations they are likely to encounter as they grow older.

As a Kumon Instructor, I am sometimes asked why we require the repeated practice of basic mental addition without allowing our students to count on their fingers? If they get the right answer using their fingers, why do they need to keep practising 3+2, 8+2, and 6+2, mentally?
Why do many of our students, even those who are already dealing with multiplication or fractions at school, often start the Kumon programme on basic addition (plus 1, plus 2, plus 3) before progressing to mixed addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions and higher maths?

The answer is that we are laying the foundations for future success in more advanced maths.