My Book of Money Dollars & Cents: Ages 6, 7, 8

Like most Kumon books, this is a good one, the only problem with it is that coins are not the actual size on the page, which, if you use real coins to present and other books that keep the real size of coins real on the page, is confusing even to ME, let alone my six year old.I recommend using this book separately from all other instruction to avoid confusion, if you want to use it at all. I still want to use it since it’s good step-by-step practice for my son. There’s no reason they couldn’t use real or close-to-real size though. All other books do and they don’t go bankrupt on paper used.Another consideration: some people don’t like the fact that 50-cent coins are used here. I like it. It allows my son to practice that 50 cents plus 50 cents is 100 cents, which I’m turn is a dollar.There’s a book of counting coins by Kumon that you should start with before purchasing this one. It probably pops up down on the product page in recommendations. Unless your child really knows how to count coins well, which by the way is way more complex a task than I realized (you need to be able to count by fives and tens fluently, and add on the fly)—unless your kid does that, this book isn’t for you. Start with the one on counting coins first.Please mark this review as helpful if it was helpful to you so others can find it.

Finally! An intuitive and incremental method for teaching kids to counts coins. These books are fantastic. I recommend a 20-minute timer, which allows my kids to work at their own pace and accomplish as much as they wish. No that it’s homeschool for the foreseeable future/year Kumon has been a lifesaver! My 6 & 7 year old kids went from struggling in school to getting caught up in a 1 month of consistent daily Kumon. By May they’ll be ready to move onto the next grade of Kumon books, which we plan on continuing all summer. We’ve tried public and elite private schooling....Kumon has been the only thing that’s delivered results. We’ve decided school is a waste of time & money. I’m utilizing these Kumon workbooks to create a homeschool curriculum.

I generally love Kumon books. They're progressive, logical and give lots of practice. This book logically builds on the Counting Coins book. It starts out with a quick review of coins and a couple a pages of practice. Then it introduces the $1 or 100 cents with sufficient support of this concept. And sufficient support of writing dollar and cent amounts (ie 1.40 as oppose to $1 and 40 cents)It after this that I have got a little frustrated. From lessons 18-31, the student is given half the answers to the problems shown and is suppose to trace it rather than having to count it out. The directions say count the money then trace the amount. I guess they assume the child cannot write numbers properly. However, I feel the goal should be the ability to count the money correctly. I think giving 2-3 examples would be sufficient rather than a whole page of tracing. My child tends to speed through the tracing and pass on the counting since he doesn't have to really think about the answer. I would rather have him spending time practicing the counting.It's still a good book. Lessons 32-19 allow for counting practice. Although some of the pages are a predictable pattern. If you have a pretty bright child, she will figure it out fast. So only 3 stars!!

Though these books are designed for use with very young children I have found success using them with high school students who have very high needs. The money books are especially good since the pictures of money are realistic (not always the case with some math workbooks) reproduce well with almost any copier and the worksheets alternate between using the fronts and backs of the coins and one dollar bills (dollar bills are as high as this book goes) so students become familiar with both sides. The workbooks are sequential and provide lots of practice before moving on to a new skill or concept. My one regret about this book is by the end of the book there is quite a bit of emphasis on the fifty cent coin which is so seldom used today and which I tend to not to even teach to my students who just need the very basic concepts.

After my daughter mastered the coins under $1, I moved on to My Book of Money: Dollars and Cents from Kumon with her. The workbook helps young learners make the difficult transition between cents and dollars. The beginning reviews the names and values of coins, and then the rest of the workbook slowly introduces dollars and the dollar-based structure to make the challenging mathematical concept seem easy. As with the other Kumon workbooks that I have used with my daughter, I appreciate the slower pace.

I love this book! My kids have struggled with learning money in their regular curriculum (which doesn't review it enough). This book walks them through step-by-step, from 1 penny up, so that your kid can basically teach themselves. It's so convenient... and as a homeschooling mom, that's what I love!

My daughter just finished 2nd grade and her teacher said she needed a bit of a review this summer on money before she went back to school for 3rd grade. I decided to try this money Kumon book and I'm so glad I did. It slowly and gently introduces and reinforces money concepts, starting with coins and then going to dollars. My daughter has learned a lot in just a couple weeks of use. Highly recommended. Only thing is I wish the pages were easier to tear out...

Good.

I don't like it because it only shows the US dollars instead of Canadian.

I didn't know that it was for American.As a result, I had to refund it by paying extra cost.If you can clearly say that this is for US then there won't be confusion for Australian.

Item was what I ordered. Would have been nice if there was a book with Canadian currency but this book did the job.

America currancy