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Great practice and confidence builder, June 19, 2008
This review is from: My Book Of Numbers 1-120 (Kumon Workbooks) (Paperback)
We just finished this book the day before my son's 5th birthday. We really liked it. It is great for practicing not only counting but writing legible numbers, identifying patterns, dot-to-dot activities (his favorite). It begins very simply and slowly gets more advanced, but the kids barely notice it. It was fun for him and he often wanted to do several lessons' worth of work in a sitting... this from a very energetic little boy who can usually not sit still. Recommend this book and am looking for more of these to follow.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Not A Great Kumon Workbook, March 6, 2010
This review is from: My Book Of Numbers 1-120 (Kumon Workbooks) (Paperback)
I usually love using Kumon workbooks in my son's homeschool curriculum, but this one was a slight disappointment. There are four types of exercises: tracing numbers, fill in missing numbers in sequence, circle specific numbers (identification), and dot-to-dots. The repetition helps retention, but I had a few issues with the set-up.
1) In some of the sequence exercises, there are two rows of numbers, but some numbers have been skipped at the end or beginning of each row, so it's not a complete number sequence. I don't know how skipping numbers is suppose to help learn to count properly.
2) The dot-to-dots come in three sizes: large font with visible pathways, medium font, and a tiny font that might be hard for some kids to focus on. Some of the patterns were a little more complex than what I expected for 4-6 year olds. Also, my left-handed child couldn't always see the numbers he was looking for, especially with the tiny font.
3) Kumon workbooks are bound pretty tightly, and they are not perforated, so I usually have to hold the workbooks open for my son. This was difficult with some pages that were written horizontally; my son had to stretch across one page just to write on the adjoining page.
While my son does know how to count to 120 now, both my son and I were grateful to be done with it.
I would recommend just using
Numbers 1-100 Flash Cards or the
Number Cheap Chart 1-100, since there wasn't any computation in this workbook anyway.
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My book of Numbers 1-120 (Kumon Workbooks, March 25, 2007
This review is from: My Book Of Numbers 1-120 (Kumon Workbooks) (Paperback)
This is a very good book. My daughters were only a couple of months over 4yrs when I introduced them to it and they soaked it up like a sponge. I like the way it is laid out in stages and follow on of dot-to-dots to review. They are now 41/2 yrs and count to 120+. They can also do the dot to dots to 120 and we are slowly moving on to 200.
A really great book.
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