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My Book Of Numbers 1-120 (Kumon Workbooks)

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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.

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.

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.

Great way for a 4.5 yr old to learn to count to 100!!!

Kumon's "My Book Of Numbers 1-120 really holds my 5 year old grandson's attention. He is very interested in numbers, counting and simple addition and subtraction. This is the second Kumon numbers book I have given him and he is enthusiastic about using them. He is now counting to 130, accurately and without help,because he wanted to count higher than the book goes, a bit competitive I guess. He also likes the connect the dots exercises. Best of all, the Kumon books help him to follow directions, which is the thing he most needs to learn before he starts Kindergarten next year.

I have young twins. One of them will grab these books and a crayon and traces & draws nearly an hour. He won't even watch TV that long. He goes from front to back of the book and when he's done, he starts at the front again. He doesn't even care that he already has drawn on a page, he just traces again over and over. I have bought every book in the series.

This book really drills down to one of the basic skills of the "Kumon Method"...namely, sequencing. If your student knows how to count, how to place numbers in a sequential order, then you really have laid the groundwork for a firm foundation in math. This workbook also helps the young student to learn how numbers are oriented so that the student doesn't write numbers backwards.

I honestly wish I'd used this for my 3rd grader when she was in Kindergarten or earlier, as it would have helped her transition into Kindergarten far more smoothly. I had imagined incorrectly that Kindergarten was about learning to count to 20, like it was when my now 9th grader was in Kindergarten. That concept is a thing of the past. Now, students are challenged to write to 100 and count forwards and backwards from 100. And that's in Kindergarten. Wow. Times have sure changed in education. Help yourself and help your child's confidence by making sure they know sequencing from the very start. This workbook will really assist you in that task.