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Kumon
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Kumon [ˈkuːmɔːn], Kumon Method
n
(Social Science / Education)
a.  a method of teaching mathematics, reading, and languages in which students start at a level of work at which they have a firm grasp of facts and concepts and then, working at their own pace in an individualized study programme of problem-solving on worksheets, progress by small steps to more advanced levels of knowledge
b.  (as modifier) Kumon mathematics
[named after its founder, Toru Kumon (1914-95), a Japanese mathematics teacher]
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