Numbers & Counting PreK-K: Volume 111 (Spectrum)

Perfect for pre k children

Great

I would say this book is more on a kindergarten level than Prek.

EXCELLENT!!

Easy to understand

Perfect for what I needed

We're trying to work with our 4 year old at home to support lessons he gets in preschool. In addition to these, we've also tried books like Brain Quest, and DK learning. I really liked this series overall, however, I liked the numbers and counting book less than the capital letters, lower case letters and shapes books that we got, as I felt the exercises were less conducive to little ones learning. Our older son is 4 and he is good with numbers overall, but he seemed less engaged in this book than the others of the series.The exercises are varied. It starts with counting and writing numbers 0-10. The main focus seems to be on 20 and under, with bursts for each major denomination of 10 after that. There's some number recognition, but the exercises were less engaging than they ideal for our just turned 4-year-old. While the other books we've found in this series were definite keepers, this one is more hit or miss.

I really love this series for teaching my pre-schooler in a fun, easy way. My daughter's pretty articulate & creative, and while we read to her a lot, we were kind of at a loss on how to go about the more structured teaching of letters and numbers. The PK-K Spectrum books have been a great help.I like how the books combine coloring, circling, and simply identifying numbers with counting and writing the numbers themselves. While I personally would have liked several more pages in the 1-2-3 range at the beginning (this is a 3-year-old who can effectively count to 3--sometimes, she'll continue to about 5, but I don't think she actually gets it beyond 2 or 3), that's because we're just a little younger than the target age. The workbook is paced very nicely to be able to do a page or two each day for very small kids (after 1-2 pages, we can switch to a different book for another page or 2, but beyond that, she'll just start doodling on the pages), maybe more for older preschoolers or kids who started earlier. After the initial section on simple counting and identifying numbers, it advances to counting higher numbers ,counting in groups of 10, etc., a bit too advanced for us now, but plenty of room to grow. For us, it's just enough to hold a child's interest, and quick enough for a parent to be able to squeeze in a little fun learning each day. My daughter looks forward to the lessons, though we're proceeding much more slowly with numbers than we can with the letters in the same series/level. If you've got a young one, I'd recommend copying the first section, because you'll probably want to reinforce it a lot before moving on.The book is colorful and varied, with a school vibe (which my daughter likes), but enough variety to still feel a lot like a coloring book or fun pad.

I found this to be a somewhat difficult book for PreK level children. It may be because my daughter’s PreK school focuses on language and literacy. Numbers are not neglected and my daughter can count to 100 on most days. Practicing the numbers would and will help her a lot, but when we try too often, she says she was in school most of the day and now wants to play.I do like how the book is organized with counting and writing through 10, followed by counting and writing through 20, then understanding greater, less and equal, and ending with counting to 100. Each lesson builds on the earlier lessons. The first two lessons seem easy for PreK. The third chapter is not as easy.Some children can see a cup of water in a tall cylinder beside another cup of water in a shorter, more flat container and think the tall cylinder contains more water. There is a maturity that develops by about age 7 that gives children the capability to discern that the same amount can be held in different shaped objects. I think that is why the third chapter on greater is “work” for PreK children. My daughter has to stop and count each item to tell if the number of birds that are pictured four to a row in four rows (16) is greater than birds pictured five in a row of two rows plus three birds (13) on the last row. Yes, she needs to practice to learn this, but we can’t focus on it for long periods of time. I don’t want her to be frustrated and eventually hate math.The counting to 100 seems much easier than the chapter on greater, less, and equal.The book itself is quite attractive with excellent illustrations (in color). The first 77 pages are lessons and pages 78 through 96 are the answer key for all the exercises.Even with the difficulty of chapter three, the book should be able to help many children to learn more about numbers, how to recognize them, and how to count by 10’s as well as individually.

My four(-almost-five)-year old daughter has been doing this workbook for a few days now, and we really like it.The workbook is about 75 pages total, and there is an answer key in the back. The number problems are all right on target for her capabilities. She's challenged, but never too frustrated. The graphics are really nice and easy to decipher. I have to read the directions to her, but that isn't a big deal; that's just what you have to do in preschool.I like that the objective is very clearly stated at the top of each pages. (See pictures.) Some of the things that the workbook asks the kid to do: find groups that are equal, find the number that is greater, count through 20, and count and write numbers through 100 (emphasis is on numbers 0 through 20, though).The problems are all very straightforward, and there are a variety of activities in here, so my daughter doesn't get bored. At eight bucks, the book is slightly pricey for just 75 pages. For the same price, you can pick up the giant  School Zone Giant Workbooks: Preschool  at Target. However, this book IS one the nicer workbooks we've used, so I'm still happy with it. School Zone Giant Workbooks: Preschool

We got ten of these workbooks: Addition K, Addition 1, Subtraction 1, Subtraction 2, Shapes K, Long Vowels 1, Short Vowels K, Numbers and Counting Pre-K, Counting Money 2, and Telling Time 1. They're pretty good workbooks. We have four kids from 1-8. The one and two levels (grades) fit the two middle girls well.There's lots of good practice on the subject at hand. They're color, but they are "serious" workbooks. There are no fun pictures or creative back stories to the worksheets. If you want more fun worksheets the Homework Helper series is very good for that.Each workbook has 72 pages of worksheets with the rest of the pages being the table of contents and the answers. For eight dollars each that's not bad. There are better "value" workbooks, but there are a a lot around this price.In the end, none of the workbooks stood out as amazing. But none of them stood out as duds either.

My 2.5 year old is a bit young for most of this, but I like things like this that provide a supplement to his other methods of learning and can be revisited regularly to get a few more pages in. After doing the first couple of questions together, he was able to several pages on his own, which seems to me like what was intended. The problems are most likely too simple for a child who is old enough to read all of the instructions themselves.My son thinks it is fun and regularly asks for it, which is awesome. The pages in the workbook are the roughly-textured greyish paper I remember from workbooks in my own childhood. The pages take a colored pencil well and are nice to write on. If you wanted to do them multiple times you could always laminate the pages and use a dry-erase marker or a dry-erase crayola crayon with it.

I love these types of workbooks for little kids so I was excited to get it for my just-turned-4yo who will be attending Pre-K this fall. She did pretty good on some of the exercises, but I would highly suggest you work with your child. Yes, there are some pages that they can probably figure out, but if they're not reading, they definitely need adult interaction to give instructions. For example, I gave my daughter instructions for one page, which was to circle the number of items requested--which she did--but then I came back and she had then circled everything on the next four pages. :) There are answer keys for every page if you need them.I have uploaded a few pages so you can see the style of work.

My four-year old son has enjoyed this numbers workbook. I gave him instructions for the first few pages, then he was able to work independently by my side for the next few.The concepts are simple to hi (at least the beginning of the book, as far as we've done), but I like that it has him write the numbers. His writing skills are what need practicing.I appreciate that this book teaches the correct way to write a number. There is a dot that indicates where to start your pencil. This is very good for young learners.This is a simple book (meaning it's not extravagant with characters all over, etc.), but I think thats good. This workbook helps young ones to practice good skills.

This is a nice thick workbook that's beautifully laid out and colorful. My main issue with it is that I like to teach out of workbooks and this goes way, way too fast. Like most counting workbooks, it goes past 10 by page 26 (out of 77) and is counting up to 100 by the end. My four year old isn't really ready to count that high, so we ended up doing part of the book and then having to stop until he understands better. My achievement focused brain would much rather do cover to cover.So overall it's well done and good for reinforcement, but if you're looking to teach out of it, then I think it will move too quickly for most kids.