AI-personalized K–8 math. Zero screen time.

Akros is built to be finished: about 20 minutes on paper, a clear finish line, and a Trail Guide to discover on the last page.

Akros starts where your child can succeed, then builds forward: below or beyond their grade as needed, with more help when a concept doesn’t land.

Let the first attempt and targeted redo do their work. If the skill still does not land, Akros escalates the support; Premium adds a Coaching Row and a new explanation built around the child’s work.

Yes, with School Help on Akros Premium. Send photos of the study guide or recent homework, and the test date. Akros finds the math on the test, checks what your child already knows, and sends a plan with tonight’s first lesson. When the graded test comes back, send that too: Akros reworks every missed question.

Yes, and Akros does the job better. Parents seek extra math help for three main reasons: teaching new math topics, coaching students through missed questions, and turning new learning into long-term knowledge. Akros delivers all three more effectively than a tutor can: it teaches every new topic with a printed lesson that works, traces every mistake to its cause so it can coach effectively, and brings each skill back right before it would fade. Akros practices with your child every day instead of once or twice a week, and it fits any schedule. A month with Akros costs less than one hour with a tutor.

Daily practice beats weekly sessions. Consistency is key to successful learning. Psychologists who reviewed 10 popular study methods rated spaced practice one of the 2 most effective, and a review of 96 randomized studies found that tutoring works best at 3 or more sessions a week. Akros sends a new lesson every morning, so your child can practice every day. On Akros Premium, Instant Grading delivers the next lesson in about 10 minutes when your child wants to keep going. That’s 30 or more lessons a month, compared with 13 sessions from a tutor who comes 3 times a week, or about 4 classes a month at the Russian School of Math.

Your schedule stays yours. A tutor, learning center, or class locks you into the same hours every week. You plan around them, drive to them, wait through them, and lose them when someone is sick. Akros has no appointments. The lesson waits in your inbox, and your child does it whenever suits your day: before school, after soccer, on a Saturday morning, or on vacation. Your part takes about 5 minutes.

You see exactly what your child knows. Most tutors sum up a session in a few words. Your Akros parent dashboard shows the whole map: every skill your child has learned, where Akros is fixing gaps and teaching new concepts, and every graded question beside a photo of your child’s handwritten work. You always know where your child stands and where they need help.

New concepts click in one lesson. Every new Math Topic comes with a printed Concept Lesson: the key rule, a clear explanation, worked examples, and a warning about the most common mistake. On topics that are new to them, children answer about 25% of questions correctly before the lesson and 80% after it. In other words, one lesson takes your child from mostly wrong to mostly right. A tutor explains on the spot, and the explanation is gone when the session ends. An Akros Concept Lesson stays on the table for your child to reread, and a person reviews and approves each one before any child sees it.

Every mistake gets traced to its cause. When researchers recorded real tutoring sessions, they found that tutors often missed why a student got a problem wrong. Akros reads every step your child writes, pinpoints where the thinking broke, and names the kind of mistake: a careless slip, a wrong method, or a step left out. The next day the problem comes back with new numbers, chosen so the same mistake can’t produce the right answer, and a hint aimed precisely at the broken step. After this coaching, children answer that type of question correctly on a later lesson 97% of the time, with no hints. That’s proof the coaching works: nearly every mistake gets fixed, and your child does the fixing.

Skills stay learned. Akros tracks every question your child answers and every skill they learn, a record no human tutor could keep up with, so it knows exactly when each skill is due for review. Each topic comes back 2 days after it’s taught, then at widening intervals of a week, 2 weeks, a month, and 2 months. Memory research finds that this widening spacing is one of the best defenses against forgetting. Fragile skills return sooner. Every review uses fresh questions, so your child recalls the method instead of recognizing an old problem. As a result, 85% of fixed mistakes are still answered correctly a week or more later, with no hints.

Your child learns to figure things out. With Akros, your child learns each new topic from the page and fixes each mistake with a hint, not a person leaning over their shoulder. That self-sufficiency is the skill that lasts. Most advanced math won’t be used after school (when did you last do calculus?), but the ability to learn something new on your own will be used for life. Every fix tells your child: you didn’t need anyone to show you; you figured it out yourself.

No screens and no devices. While many tutors and learning centers now teach over video, Akros is completely device-free: every lesson is printed, and your child writes out each step with a pencil. Children get more math problems right when they write out their steps: in a study of Dutch 6th graders who found math hard, answers with written-out steps were right 40% of the time, compared with 19% for answers worked out in their heads. Schools are moving the same way: countries that went furthest with classroom screens are turning back, and American states are following. Sweden, which had required digital tools even in its preschools, has budgeted more than a billion kronor since 2023 to give every student a printed textbook in every subject. And in 2026, Iowa limited digital learning to one hour a day from Kindergarten through Grade 5.

Every sibling is half price. Tutors charge full price for every child. With Akros, your first child costs less each month than one tutoring hour, and every brother or sister is half price.

See the full comparisons: Akros vs. a math tutor, Akros vs. Mathnasium, and Akros vs. the Russian School of Math.

Akros beats Kumon where it matters to families: convenience, cost, consistency and teaching. And it builds the same self-sufficiency: your child works things out on their own, with no adult needed.

Convenience: no center, no drive, no grading. Most Kumon students go to a center twice a week, and Kumon gives parents answer books for marking homework at home. Its alternative, Kumon Connect, puts the worksheets on a tablet. Akros needs none of it. The lesson arrives by email every morning, your child completes it on paper whenever suits your day, and you snap a picture. Akros grades every page, and your parent dashboard shows each skill your child has learned, with every graded question beside a photo of their work. Your part takes about 5 minutes.

Cost: a fraction of Kumon’s price. Kumon typically runs $130 to $220 a month per subject, plus a registration fee, with no standard sibling discount. Akros starts at $19.99 a month with no enrollment fee, about 85% to 90% less, and each brother or sister adds just $9.99. For two children, Akros costs under a quarter of what Kumon charges for one.

Consistency: coached every day. At Kumon, instructor guidance comes on center days, twice a week. Akros is there every day: each morning’s lesson is built from the last one, with yesterday’s mistakes to fix, skills due for review, and a new topic. Every lesson takes about 20 minutes and ends with a Trail Guide to discover and collect, so your child has a reason to come back.

Teaching: more robust, from the first week. Kumon often starts children on work that looks easier than their schoolwork, and it marks each mistake for your child to correct, repeating worksheets as needed. Akros pre-tests each Math Topic and skips what your child already knows, so lessons go straight to new material. When your child misses a question, Akros reads every step, finds where the thinking broke, and brings the problem back with a hint aimed precisely at that point, so your child still does the fixing. After this coaching, 97% of missed questions get fixed. If a topic doesn’t land, Akros teaches it a different way. And Akros covers all of school math: more than 450 Math Topics, including geometry, measurement, data and probability, areas Kumon’s levels leave out.

See the full comparison: Akros vs. Kumon.

Akros beats math apps for two big reasons: your child learns with no device, and Akros reads every step they write.

No device, better math. Children get more math problems right when they write out their steps: in a study of Dutch 6th graders who found math hard, answers with written-out steps were right 40% of the time, compared with 19% for answers worked out in their heads. In another study, accuracy rose when children were asked to write out problems they had been doing in their heads. An app takes the writing away. When 108 second and third graders practiced addition facts, they wrote 19.8 correct digits a minute on paper but typed only 12.3 on an iPad keyboard. And when Massachusetts moved its state math test from paper to computers, students in grades 3–8 scored lower.

Schools are moving away from screens. Countries that went furthest with classroom screens are turning back, and American states are following. Sweden, which had required digital tools even in its preschools, has budgeted more than a billion kronor since 2023 to give every student a printed textbook in every subject. Denmark’s education minister said the country owed a generation of schoolchildren “a huge apology” for being “enthusiastic about digitalisation and naive.” And in 2026, Iowa passed a law limiting digital learning to one hour a day from Kindergarten through Grade 5.

Akros sees why, not just whether. An app sees only the answer your child taps or types, so it knows only right or wrong. Akros reads every handwritten step, tells a careless slip from a real misunderstanding, and coaches the step that went wrong. That step-by-step feedback is what research rewards: when researchers compared computer tutors, those that gave feedback on each step produced more than twice the learning gains of those that checked only the final answer.

Coaching targets your child’s specific mistake. When your child misses a question, Akros brings it back with new numbers and a hint aimed precisely at their mistake, never the answer. If the redo still misses, Akros Premium adds a Coaching Row that names the wrong turn and guides your child to another try.

Every lesson has a finish line. An app can go on and on. An Akros lesson takes about 20 minutes, and from the moment it arrives, your child can see exactly how much practice there is. The next morning, you see how it went.

See the full comparisons: Akros vs. IXL, Akros vs. Khan Academy, Akros vs. Math Academy, and Akros vs. Prodigy.

ChatGPT can explain a concept, walk through a problem, or write a practice worksheet in seconds. Akros goes much further: it is a complete daily math program for children that handles everything around the worksheet. It uses advanced AI too, behind the scenes, but your child never needs a device.

Akros remembers every answer. Since your child’s Skills Check-Up, Akros has recorded every answer, skill by skill: what they’ve mastered, what’s still shaky, and what’s due for review. Each lesson comes from that record, so you never have to explain where your child is or decide what comes next.

A real curriculum sets the path. Akros teaches more than 450 Math Topics, from Kindergarten through Grade 8, in an order where each topic’s building blocks come first. Every Concept Lesson is reviewed before any child sees it.

Carefully calibrated hints fit your child’s exact mistake. Missed questions come back with new numbers and a hint written for the step your child got wrong. The hint points to the next move without giving away the answer.

The routine runs itself. Akros decides what to teach, review, or skip, sends the lesson every morning, reads your child’s handwriting, re-teaches what didn’t land, and updates your parent dashboard. Nobody has to remember to ask or know what to ask for.

Kids want to come back. Every lesson has a clear finish line, earns Elevation Points, and ends with a Trail Guide to discover and collect, from Alpine Trail Guides to Math Superheroes & Villains. Some are rare, and a few are legendary.

Kindergarten through Grade 8. Kindergarten and Grade 1 use Akros Junior, a visual See It → Do It → Try It format with minimal reading.

Yes, from Kindergarten through Grade 8, and it does what a textbook curriculum can’t. A textbook marches every child through the same pages. Akros teaches each child exactly what they’re ready to learn next, catches every mistake, and keeps every skill from fading. It plans every lesson and grades every page, so your part takes about 5 minutes a day, and every sibling is half price.

Every topic comes with its own lesson. Akros teaches more than 450 Math Topics: place value, the four operations, fractions and decimals, geometry, measurement, time and money, data, ratios and percents, integers and exponents, expressions and equations, and probability. A person reviews and approves every Concept Lesson, so you don’t have to teach: your child learns from the page and builds the self-sufficiency to figure things out on their own. Every lesson is printed, so your child needs no device: just a pencil to write out each step.

Every word in a lesson earns its place. Akros began when our founder built math practice by hand for his daughters from a popular textbook curriculum. He noticed that most of the pages in each lesson were filled with low-value, unneeded words his girls had learned to skip. So every Akros Concept Lesson keeps only what your child needs most: the key rule, a clear explanation, worked examples, and a warning about the most common mistake. Your child’s attention goes where it counts. In 13 of 14 experiments, students learned more from a focused lesson than from the same lesson padded with extra material.

Lessons follow your child’s Knowledge Frontier. That’s the set of Math Topics your child is ready to learn next, because everything each one builds on is already in place, whatever their grade. Akros pre-tests the topics ahead and skips the ones your child knows. Children who clear topic after topic take bigger steps, past grade level when their answers show they’re ready.

Help steps up when your child gets stuck. First comes a redo with a hint aimed at the mistake. On Akros Premium, a Coaching Row names the wrong turn. If a topic still doesn’t land, a Switchback teaches it a different way, and a missing earlier skill gets repaired first. Lessons stay challenging, with about 4 answers in 5 correct, the level learning research recommends.

Skills stay learned. Each lesson brings back recent misses while they’re fresh and reviews older skills right before your child would forget them, at widening intervals of days, then weeks, then months. Mixing review into practice works: in a trial with 787 seventh graders, mixed practice beat one-topic-at-a-time practice 61% to 38% on a test a month later.

Records build themselves. Your parent dashboard shows every skill learned and every mistake fixed, with a photo of your child’s handwritten work beside each graded answer. There’s nothing to grade and nothing to log.

Akros covers the same core mathematical skills while sequencing them from your child’s evidence rather than a fixed page order.

No. A new lesson becomes available after the current one is completed, up to daily. If life gets busy, the current lesson simply waits, and for a longer break you can pause for up to 2 weeks and pick up where you left off.

Your first child is full price, and every sibling is half price: Akros Daily is $19.99 a month for the first child and $9.99 for each sibling; Akros Premium is $29.99 and $14.99. Pay yearly and get 12 months for the price of 10. Your price is locked for as long as your subscription stays active, even while it’s paused.

Your first payment comes with a 7-day money-back guarantee. Email support@akrosacademics.com within 7 days of that payment for a full refund. You can also cancel online anytime.

Akros uses the answer, shown work, mathematical context, and the child’s writing patterns; a genuinely uncertain read goes to the parent for verification.