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21 free worksheet packs, and no sign-up

The app teaches one idea at a time on a screen. Some of those ideas want a pencil, a kitchen table, and no timer. So we wrote the worksheets to match — and gave every one of them away.

There are now 21 free worksheet packs on the site — 105 student pages, Kindergarten through Grade 8. Each pack is a PDF sized for US Letter, each one comes with a separate parent answer key, and none of them ask you to create an account or hand over an email address. Browse the worksheet library.

That last part is deliberate. A printable that arrives behind a signup wall is a trial, and a trial is a thing you have to decide about. These are just files. If you want them, you have them.

A pack is five pages and a key

Each pack covers one specific idea from the course map rather than sweeping an entire grade level. That is the whole design rule, and it is why there are 21 packs instead of 9 grade-level workbooks. A pack that tries to cover a year teaches a little bit of everything and sticks with none of it, so a pack goes after a single target: the one where regrouping turns a row of digits into tens and ones you can trade, the one where a fraction stops being a shaded shape and starts being a position on a line.

Inside a pack you get:

  • Five student pages. Enough to cover a session and a bit more, with the space to actually work rather than cram answers into gaps.
  • A separate answer key. A second file, so it never shares a page with the questions.
  • US Letter pages. Designed to stay legible printed in plain black and white. No color carries meaning, so a cheap laser or an old inkjet gives the same page.

Why the key is a different file

Because the answer key should never be one careless tap away from a kid who is mid-problem. If the key sits on the same sheet, a bored or stuck child flips the page and the exercise quietly stops being practice — it becomes a transcription task, and you never find out which. Splitting it into its own download means the pages you hand over have no answers printed anywhere on them, and the grown-up keeps the key on a phone or a clipboard for later.

It also means you can print only what you need. A kid who has regrouping and is stuck on borrowing does not have to reprint the whole pack to get one more page of it.

What paper is still better at

None of this replaces the app. The app knows what your kid has been taught, watches the error they are about to make, and reads the question aloud. Paper cannot do any of that. What paper does better is worth being specific about:

Where a worksheet beats a screen
On paperWhy it matters
Working spaceRegrouping, partial products, and number lines all need room to write and scratch out. A screen gives you a box; a page gives you the rest of the table.
Seeing the whole setA fraction bar the child shaded wrong, or a row of counters they grouped unevenly, stays visible on the page. Scrolling hides it.
Handwriting the numeralsReading a 7 backwards is fine until it quietly becomes a 1. Handwriting is where that shows up early and cheaply to fix.
No negotiationThere is nothing to unlock, no timer to beat, and no streak to protect. The only question at the table is whether the work is done.

What these packs are not

They are not a curriculum, and they are not a way to skip the app. They do not track anything, award anything, or remember where your kid stopped. They are practice pages tied to specific lessons, and they are most useful to a family already using the trail as the spine and wanting a pencil out of the session every so often.

If your kid is working on a target the app covers, the app will tell you when they are ready. If you would rather just print a page and try it tonight, the worksheet library is sorted by grade and by topic, and nothing about it asks you to check in first.

Getting the most out of a pack

  • Print the student pages, and keep the answer key on a device rather than in the printer tray.
  • Do one page properly instead of five pages quickly. A pack is built to be used across more than one sitting.
  • Have your kid say the reasoning out loud before writing. If the sentence does not come, that is the thing to work on, not the arithmetic.
  • When they get stuck twice on the same idea, stop printing more and use the app — it is built to show you the misconception the stuckness is coming from.
  • Recycle the pages you are done with. Nothing here needs to be kept forever.

Print or play

Print a page tonight, or start Unit 1 free right now.

Both work on their own. The worksheets are the pencil, the app is the part that knows what to show next.

Unit 1 of every grade is free. No ads, no tracking, and kids never create accounts.