Costs of Sports and Activities
Children’s extra-curricular activities aren’t cheap. Parents pay for lessons and sports because they believe their children will benefit from these experiences. Using an informal parent survey we gathered typical costs of some popular activities in the Littleton area.
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts: $600 per year
High School team sport like soccer, baseball, football, tennis: $600 - $800 per season
Club Basketball: $2,000 per season
High School Marching Band: $1,000 per season
Skiing: $1,200 per season
Club Swimming: $2,400 per year
Cheer, martial arts, gymnastics and dance lessons $2,500 per year
Club Ice skating and Ice Hockey: $3,000
Private music lessons: $4,600 per year
High School Cheer or Pom/Dance squad: $5,000 per year
Any parent with a child who participates in a sport at a competitive level (versus a recreational level) knows that expenses can skyrocket by 3 times, or more, than these figures as the child progresses into needing private lessons, specialized equipment, travel expenses, and uniforms. Ten thousand dollars, or more, per year is common.
Cost of Mathnasium of Littleton
Mathnasium of Littleton members have several different options available. We have 4-week summer memberships, multiplication boot-camp memberships. on-going monthly membership and private tutoring. Most of our memberships price out at $35 per hour or less. If your 5th grade child came twice a week during the academic school year (9 months or 90 hours of instruction), it would cost about $2890 including the lifetime registration, instruction, ongoing assessment and re-evaluation, and all materials. Comparing the cost of Mathnasium to sports and other activities, Mathnasium is quite affordable. Comparing Mathnasium of Littleton to private tutoring, Mathnasium is much less expensive.
Financial Benefits from Sports
Kids benefit from sports and activities by increased confidence, character building, sportsmanship, improved health, and great friendships. Do any of these activities have a direct bearing their adult earning power? That’s difficult to say. Some say these skills do translate to better jobs, but the correlation is complex.
Financial Benefits from Mathnasium
Math achievement not only builds a child’s self-esteem and confidence which then shows up in all academic areas, it also has a direct impact on your child’s earning potential. Even students who drop out of high school earned $1.66 more per hour if they have completed geometry or algebra II than if they had dropped out having only taken pre-algebra or algebra I. Of course, doing well in high school makes getting into college and completing college easier and college graduation does have a huge impact on earning potential.
Conclusion
It’s true, investing in our children’s well-being and future success costs money. How you choose to spend that money shows where your values are. Many families in the Littleton area are trusting us with their children's futures. In fact, Mathnasium was voted the top tutoring/ academic enrichment center in the Denver area. Come see why!
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