Educational Insights Hot Dots Jr. Kindergarten Math Set with Interactive Pen, Kindergarten Math Workbook, Ages 5-6

I always recommend hot dots to any parent with growing learning kids, its a great activity to do by themselves or with assistance and it is very educational, my daughter enjoys this very much.

Love these so much. Just ordered a bunch of other things from Hot Dot because it is so fun to my kids.

I purchased this for Christmas for my grandson who is in kindergarten. It is very educational for him and makes learning fun. Highly recommend

Highly recommend my soon to be four year old works on these with my guidance and she is learning so much.

Great educational toys to help my 5 year old grandson advance in learning.

Although my child is still a little too young for the entire book he does like doing the numbers, counting, and shapes sections. This will be a great book to help him continue to learn and grown as he prepares for Kindergarten. This book has the skills that he will be learning and it will be nice to be able to help him at home without him feeling like he has to do homework. I want him to enjoy learning and this is a great way to do it. Also, Ace the talking dog pen is a wonderful,, encouraging device to help my child when he chooses and answer. It also allows him to be able to learn on his own and know if he has picked the correct answer.

Although my child is still a little too young for the entire book he does like doing the numbers, counting, and shapes sections. This will be a great book to help him continue to learn and grown as he prepares for Kindergarten. This book has the skills that he will be learning and it will be nice to be able to help him at home without him feeling like he has to do homework. I want him to enjoy learning and this is a great way to do it. Also, Ace the talking dog pen is a wonderful,, encouraging device to help my child when he chooses and answer. It also allows him to be able to learn on his own and know if he has picked the correct answer.

Hot Dots Jr. Let's Master Kindergarten Math is a super addition for helping my students in Kindergarten. It allows them to have the independence to review skills that we are learning in Kindergarten. I used the Hot Dots in my centers in Kindergarten. The blue puppy wand does a good job of giving instant feedback. I have used other Hot Dot Jr. products in my classroom and the students love them! Kindergarten Math Hot Dots Jr. covers the following areas of math: counting and numbers, patterns, time, shapes/geometry, fractions, measurement, math facts and money.

I was initially disappointed in the topic coverage the product supplies--there is no counting above 10, and in kindergarten (half-day in a public school, not a Montessori program or other advanced learning center, by any means), my daughter is already expected to be able to recognize and count up to 99. The first book, then, while it took her some time to master because she couldn't read the directions and wanted to do it on her own, was almost more like pre-k. That said, once I moved her on to Book 2, the focus number-wise is more on basic addition and subtraction, but the majority of the second book is on other concepts her class is learning, patterns, shape recognition, and sequences, plus coin-counting and time-telling that they have not addressed yet but with which she is faintly familiar with from an online learning game we use as well. I do feel like it has given her an extra bit of help really understanding the concepts being presented in class. The only downside is that (at least with the first book) I am pretty sure she just memorized what responses gave her positive feedback rather than actually thinking through the problems... but she also played with the book so much before I let her move on (keen to her random pressing with the doggy 'pen', just as she random-clicks on web games) that she did actually absorb the lessons to a greater degree than I had expected. It is a very basic unit... there's a code or something embedded in the page marking the correct answers, and when the child clicks the right answer, the dog's eyes flash green and he cheers in one way or another. Click anywhere else--the wrong answer, the table, your hand--and he whimpers, whines, and flashes red. The one thing I would have improved would be if it could read the instructions on a page aloud to the child, but that would require something more advanced. She just needed me to explain directions a few times is all. There is, however, VOLUME CONTROL, which I was oh so very grateful for when she was clicking all over the place. LOL All in all, we're happy with the product. I received it at no cost to myself in exchange for a review and I chose the math game because she was struggling with math at the time. She's now better at math than at reading and I'm wishing I had the reading game to give her next, if that tells you how much we like it. :-) Too bad there's not one to teach listening and following directions! Every kindergarten parent on the planet would be after that one.

My 4 yr old got this for Xmas and was really loving it but it stopped turning red and tells her everything is right now! Very disappointing and my girl is heartbroken