Each morning, we deliver an engaging math worksheet custom-tailored to your child. They do it using a pencil, the way cognitive science says math is best learned. We grade it from a photo, find their knowledge gaps, and show you what they've mastered. Then, we build their next lesson using the exact concepts they need. All for less than 90¢ a day.
No driving. No grading. No screen time. Three minutes a day for you, twenty for them.
Custom-tailored to what your child has mastered, what they're working on, and the new concepts they're ready for. Print it on any home printer.
Yesterday's redos with hints. A new concept with worked examples. Eighteen problems, ending with a Trail Guide mascot to discover and collect.
Our AI grades the work, finds their knowledge gaps, and shows you exactly which concepts they've mastered. You get a concept-by-concept summary. They get a smarter lesson tomorrow.
Akros is built on the latest education science from the ground up.
Each lesson revisits what your child got wrong yesterday, reinforces what they've mastered before, and introduces the next concept they're ready for — all on paper, where research says learning sticks best. And it happens every morning because the Akros daily email automates consistency for you.
Not a letter grade. Not a percentile. A concept-by-concept readout of every grade-level math skill — green for mastered, yellow for in progress, red for struggling. Updated automatically every day.
After a week, you'll know more about your child's math foundation than their report card has ever told you. After a month, you'll see exactly where their mastery has advanced and which gaps need attention before they become next year's struggle.
Every lesson is a step on a mountain climb — earning elevation feet, hitting milestones (Trail Start, Base Camp, Timberline, Summit), and discovering one of 48 collectible Trail Guide mascots at the end of each lesson.
No timers. No leaderboards. No streak-pressure notifications. Just a worksheet your kid grabs because they want to know which Trail Guide they'll meet today and how much closer they are to the next ridge.
No driving to a tutoring center. No grading worksheets at the kitchen table. No remembering how Common Core wants long division done this week. The lesson teaches your child the concept. The AI grades the work. And when your child gets stuck, Akros gives them just enough to keep going — not the answer, just the nudge — so you don't have to be the one solving the problem either.
You sit with them, encourage them, let them work through hard moments, and celebrate when something clicks. The part of teaching only a parent can do — being there — is the only part left for you. Twenty minutes is the daily commitment. Not an hour. Not a weekend marathon. Twenty minutes, on paper, every morning.
Every redo gives your child just enough help to keep going — never enough to give them the answer. Over time, they stop reaching for help on every hard problem. They start trying things, getting stuck, working through it, getting unstuck. Akros tells you exactly when to step in and when to let your child wrestle with it — because productive struggle is where the learning lives. They build the habit of self-sufficient learning, one redo at a time.
My daughters are smart kids. Engaged. Curious. They go to a great school. And every time they had a math test, the same thing happened: a quick scramble at 9 PM after soccer practice, working through worksheets when everyone was already tired, trying to chase a good grade — the kind of cramming that doesn't actually teach anything. The underlying cause was that even in this ideal environment — expensive school, great teachers, smart kids — my kids weren't getting the math education they needed. I saw knowledge gaps forming that would hold them back and make them frustrated when they got to higher concepts. I knew that would impact their self confidence in the classroom and the long term trajectory of their education. Math is too important for that.
So three summers ago, I started homeschooling them in math during the summer. I spent more than $100 per kid on textbooks. Every day, I'd rip out the pages they needed, circle the right problems, X out the rest, hand-grade with a calculator, work through the misses, try to remember which concepts to revisit tomorrow, and hand-write additional questions for topics that needed extra practice but weren't in the next textbook lesson.
It worked. By doing that work during the summer, we were able to put math completely on auto-pilot during the busy school year: I didn't have to worry about it or touch it. The girls went from cramming to confident. Straight A's, math olympics, no more 9 PM scrambles. But it took hours of my time every day.
Last year, I realized AI could finally do the parts that took me hours, and let any parent get the same results without the time cost. Not the teaching; kids don't need an AI tutor reading them a lesson on a tablet. AI can do the grunt work, and the parent gets to be the coach who sees the light bulb go on as their kid closes a knowledge gap or masters a new concept. With those parts automated, the system I'd built for my own kids could work for any family willing to print a few pages a day.
That's Akros.
Cost, schedule lock, and commute time. Involving a human teacher is always going to be expensive. I didn't want to lose schedule flexibility from another standing weekly calendar commitment. I don't have the time for yet another drop-off and pickup, even once a week, and if my kid is only getting one or two days per week of extra practice, is that even helping? Akros is done on your schedule, your kids get consistent improvement every day, and you never need to leave your house.
When I give my kids our family iPad to do an education app, I have no way to know if they are actually doing math or playing games. I have one iPad and three kids — if they need to take turns with the tablet, the morning math never gets done. With paper, the work is tangible. I can see it, I can hold it, I know when they're done and exactly what they did. Kids need less screentime, not more.
I tried that. It works; I did it for three summers. But the textbook isn't tailored to my kid. I also have zero data on how they have done, what they know, or how they improved. Doing this right (picking the problems, grading them, tracking what to revisit) took literal hours every day. And without a daily email in my inbox, it was easy to forget.
Akros costs less per month than a drop-off tutoring center costs per week. There are no enrollment fees, no per-subject charges, and no required materials.
Family pricing scales gracefully — and the per-kid cost goes down with each child.
| 1 kid | 2 kids | 3 kids | 4+ kids | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $26.99 | $39.99 | $49.99 | $59.99 |
| Annual | $179.99 | $269.99 | $349.99 | $429.99 |
| Summer Pass | $89 | $129 | $159 | $189 |
On the annual plan, a four-kid family pays $107.50 per kid for a full year of daily personalized math practice — less than $9 per kid per month.
| Akros | Drop-off tutoring center | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost (1 kid) | $26.99 | $140-$200 per subject |
| Monthly cost (4 kids) | $59.99 | $560-$800 per subject |
| Upfront cost | $0 | $600-$700 |
| Driving | None | 1-2x per week to a center |
| Worksheet personalization | Per child, per day | Static — same for every kid |
| Grading | AI grades from a phone photo | Parent grades at home (~15-20 min/day) |
| Schedule | Your schedule | Their schedule |
| Spaced repetition & adaptation | Automatic | Manual instructor review |
Less than one tutoring center enrollment fee covers a full year of Akros for the entire family.
No phone calls, no retention specialists, no "are you sure?" gauntlet. The cancel button lives in your dashboard.
Going on vacation? Out for two weeks at grandma's? Pause your subscription. We don't grade what doesn't get done, and your billing pauses with you.
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Akros is built to be engaging on its own — the lesson length is manageable (twenty minutes), the physical paper contains no distractions to sidetrack them (kids associate tablets with games), and we've built in several features to make it fun (like the "Mind-blowing Math" box). Unlike an app, you get to see physical evidence of completion when they finish the sheet. But the most successful Akros families don't rely on the product alone. They build the habit and reinforce it with their own incentives.
Akros is built specifically for this case. Most adaptive math programs assume the kid is at grade level and just nudge them along. Akros's diagnostic system finds your child's actual mastery level — which might be a year different from where their grade book places them — and starts there. The first week's lessons are calibrated to where the gaps actually are, not where the curriculum assumes they should be.
Akros is built to teach kids self-sufficient learning, and that starts with how you respond when they're stuck. The instinct to jump in and help — most parents have it — is exactly what we want to retrain. The simple rule, in three steps: on the first attempt, don't help. On the redo, don't help either — the redo comes with a calibrated hint. If they miss the redo, that's your moment. Akros flags the missed redo for you. That's the signal to sit with them and walk through the concept together.
Akros covers all of K-8: from kindergarten counting and number sense through 8th grade pre-algebra, including all the core concepts in between. We diagnose your child's actual level on signup so the first lessons start where they are, not where their grade level says they should be.
Missed days don't break anything. The next lesson Akros delivers will incorporate any unfinished work as redos, so nothing is lost. For longer breaks, you can pause your subscription with one click — billing pauses with you. Pause for up to 30 days per year, with up to 14 consecutive days at a stretch.
Each kid gets their own subscription — their own daily lesson, custom-tailored to their grade level and pace, and their own mastery dashboard. Monthly: $26.99 (1 kid), $39.99 (2 kids), $49.99 (3 kids), $59.99 (4+ kids). Annual saves 40-44% versus monthly. On the annual plan, a four-kid family pays $107.50 per kid for a full year — less than $9 per kid per month.
Akros covers the same mathematical concepts as Common Core and most state standards: the topics, sequences, and skill-building progressions are the same. The daily cadence and the personalization are different — your child works on the concepts they specifically need, in the order their mastery progression calls for, not the order a 25-kid classroom moves at.
Where Akros also differs from Common Core:
Every problem in an Akros lesson is concrete and clearly stated. Common Core has a tendency toward open-ended, abstract questions that ask students to "explain their reasoning" or "describe a strategy" in ways that confuse more kids than they help. Akros stays focused on the math: clear questions, definite answers, fluent skill-building. Your child learns to do the math, not to write essays about the math.
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