Kumon My Book Of Simple Addition Paperback – April 30, 2005

very good, I recommend

My 5-year old son used this book last year. After he completed the "NUmber 1-120" book he started this one and had no problem accepting the concept of addition. In general, I like Kumon-series, in particular the early math books. For example, "Numbers 1-30" is a great book to introduce numbers/counting, and "simple addition" is a good one to introduce addition, and so on.My personal opinion for "intro-level" tracing/writing/math books is to start as early as possible. For books recommended for "2-3-4" and "3-4-5", start as soon as your child turns 2 or 3, respectively. For books recommended for "4-5-6" and older, you can even start 1/2 or 1 year earlier than the recommended range. The key is to complete the earlier books in the same series such as Numbers 1-30 and Numbers 1-120 (consider them "prerequisites"), and your child will be ready for this one. Also, the first a few pages of this book IS counting (similar to those in 1-120) and serve as a transition from the previous book, which is nice and my son did not feel intimidated by starting a "new skill".Some followup information to share: My son finished this book and then the "Addition" and "Simple Subtraction" books and now the "Addition: Speed&Accuracy" and "Subtraction". However, I have not found which Kumon book to do the next. In principle one should start learning grouping/re-grouping. The problem with grade-level Kumon math book is that they still start from the simple level, like "1+1,2+1,3+1" etc, and this could go on for 10 out of the 50 pages of the book, while I want to see grouping/re-grouping on page 1!

Excellent incremental & intuitive workbook! My kids have struggled in both public & elite private schooling due to the fact that all school curriculum is taught out of order and skips necessary fundamental concepts. Having homeschool forced on us is a blessing in disguise, because it’s given us as parents a direct window into the education system, curriculum, and chaotic daily requirements. I feel bad that my two kids have suffered through from preschool to 2nd grade. No more! We enrolled in Kumon and I’m utilizing all of these workbooks to cultivate a curriculum for our family. This simple addition book has been a life saver in allowing my daughters the opportunity to go back and solidify basic concepts, rebuild self confidence, and feel inspired to move forward at their own pace. This book covers adding 1’s & 2’s. Nothing fancy, but it does present addition in a non intimidating format and highlights patterns that begin to click. Thank you Kumon!

I had my 4 year old son go through this book for several months and while it can be a bit repetitive for him, he did make progress. Sometimes I would mix a page with something more interesting to him, such as something from the Kumon Number Games 1-70. Since the problems are usually repeated on each page (i.e. there usually is 2 instances of the same problem), once in a while I did catch him copying the answer, so I try to avoid that (i.e. folding the page in half). After he progressed through this book and some of the earlier part of "My Book of Addition", I decided to move off Kumon math books temporarily. Why? I happen to find a math game called TuxMath (yeah, a Linux user here :) ), and I decided to see if I can use it to improve his speed. I have to say, it has been working **great** and he is able to think much faster and has memorized various combinations and is still getting better. Does this mean I will not continue with Kumon? I WILL continue with it, but mix it up with some TuxMath and some pages from the Kumon book. I will be having him resume the "My Book of Addition" this week in fact.

My 2 oldest did kumon and they are both now in advanced math. My youngest is in preschool. Now that I've been through kumon 2xs as a parent I am using these books to teach the kumon method to my little one. It is excellent practice. It doesn't need to be colorful. The idea is to reinforce the basics so that as the child progreses in math they don't need to focus on the simple arithmetic and they can focus on the theorems and such. The fun and games part can be learned in school. This is repetitive to solidly secure the basics.

I just love the Kumon workbooks because they are so well organized, with pages that are simply laid out and they introduce the information incrementally. It appeals to the learning style of my five year old. I was a tiny bit disappointed by how extremely simple this workbook is. It only covers adding 1 and 2 to the numbers 1 through 29. It says it right there on the cover but somehow I missed it. I would say it's definitely pre-school level and not kindergarten as I'd hoped. I'll probably just do a few of the pages with my five year old and order the next book to do this year with her and let my four year old use this when I need her to have busy-work. The information builds very slowly in this workbook and so it might not be ideal of the child who likes variety in their workbook pages or who struggles with being under-challenged or gets bored really quickly. However for my daughter this will be perfect.

Extra addition skills for my Kinder girl. We homeschool. These workbooks look great. We finished Singapore but needed more repetition these look great! It's hard to choose online so Im giving pictures as that's what I'd like to see more of. I think this book will serve us for this year math K and into next year 1st grade. They are upper level books.Update: we are working in this addition and math 1-120 Kumon books. My daughter is a Kinder homeschool girl. She is good at math. Downfall- in the middle of the book is 1+1 then 1+2 then 1+3. This should be at the start of simple math. It jumps around. Prior pages have 3+2. I'm not crazy about the disorder.