180 Days of Math for Kindergarten: Practice, Assess, Diagnose (180 Days of Practice)

Fantastic book! I'll definitely buy it for every grade!

I used this book for my homeschooled 10 year old autistic son. It teaches through pictures and visual demonstration of problems, and has the repetition that he needs to grasp concepts. Of all the many books that I've found, this is one of the best for teaching math to an autistic child who is not a math savant. I wanted to write this review to help other parents of autistic children who need more than normal repetition to teach concepts.

OK, to be fair, maybe its two days worth of math. This book has 180 "days" - 1 page with six questions each. The problem is that there are only 10-12 question types repeated over and over again. Often they are the exact same question, or the same question presented with a very, very slight difference. More problematic still, the problems do not become progressively more difficult or build on each other. Instead, the same simple types of questions repeat over and over. Day 180 is no more difficult than day one or two. Our pre-K five year old had no trouble with the book, except for finding it boring and repetitive. He frequently asked why it just asked the same questions over and over. Mommy and I wondered the same thing. Seriously, just print out a sample page and you've pretty much got everything this book has to offer.

Me and my five year old kindergartener are half way through this- it took us about two months. It on-level and difficulty increases at an imperceptible rate- two qualities often missing from other workbooks. So far almost no "dud" questions.We usually do six to ten pages at a sitting, since at the moment we're not doing any other supplemental workbooks. It is an excellent adjunct to Kumon since this book has an extreme focus on concepts, where as Kumon pages at this same level have a laser-like focus on the mechanics of writing & counting.There is some additional teacher guide material that I didn't pay much attention to, so I can't speak to that part.

This book was ok for identifying groups and shapes and patterns at an early age but it didn't have the kind of mathy kindergartner was learning or expected to learn/practice at home. That was more traditional 10+44 math, this book had very little of it, only some "look at the pictures and write the formula" with 3+1, etc...