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

AI is transforming how kids learn. Paper is where they learn best.

Akros is the only daily math practice that delivers both.

  • Every day, Akros sends an engaging math lesson custom-tailored to your child.
  • They complete it with a pencil — the way cognitive science says math is best learned.
  • You snap a photo.
  • Akros reads their handwritten work step by step, finds exactly where they got stuck, and coaches them through that step in the next lesson.

No screens for your child. No grading for you. Math they’ve never seen, learned on paper.

NewTest coming up? School Help turns the study guide into a plan that gets your child ready.
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20 min
For your child, 5 min for you
Half price
For every sibling
30×
Savings relative to a tutor
K–8
Full coverage
“She had me bring a printer on vacation so she didn’t have to miss a day. 😂 She’s loving it and loving math again! I really like how it’s finding the gaps. She’s going to do so much better this year! Thank you!”
Elizabeth’s Mom, 6th Grade
Unedited message from an Akros subscriber.
Student learning data

Children learn new math with Akros, and it lasts.

Effectiveness atTeaching new concepts

+54 point accuracy gain

On topics a pre-test confirmed were new to your child

Before the lesson26%
After Akros taught it80%
  • About 3 new math skills demonstrated learned each week
What this means for your child

Math they couldn’t solve before, learned from one printed lesson with worked examples. No video, no teacher, and no days spent on math they already know.

Effectiveness atCoaching missed questions

97% missed questions fixed

Counted only once your child gets the skill right later, with no hint

  • 77% corrected on the first lesson after the miss
What this means for your child

When your child gets one wrong, Akros reads their work, finds the wrong step, and brings the problem back with a hint aimed at that mistake.

Effectiveness atBuilding durable learning

85% fixes sustained

Missed questions that were fixed and still answered correctly by the child a week or more later, with no hints

  • Akros also builds good habits: missing units and labels fell 62% from children’s first 10 lessons to their latest 10
What this means for your child

A fix only counts if it lasts. Akros keeps bringing repaired skills back with fresh questions and no coaching or hints, so the knowledge is still there on test day.

22,000+
Behind the data
Handwritten answers graded by AI
Each builds fluency and teaches new concepts.
Zero minutes of parent grading.

These results aren’t from hand-picked students. Akros keeps every child at the level of challenge learning science says works best: moving fast when they’re ready, and patiently fixing gaps first when they’re not.

See these numbers for one child in the parent dashboard ↓

How it works

See every part of Akros for yourself.

Four steps a day. Try each one below, including the photo upload.

Step 1 · Every morning

Today’s lesson, and a two-minute read on yesterday’s

Each morning brings today’s lesson, ready to print, and a quick look at how yesterday went. Akros makes consistency automatic: the next lesson is always waiting, so the habit takes care of itself.

  • What your child got right, and a question to ask at dinner
  • Where they are on their learning trail, topic by topic
Real email · sample child
Kate’s Daily Math Update: Lesson 44Akros Academics · 5:00 AM
A real Akros daily parent email: what we saw, a dinner question, yesterday's scores, today's lesson button, and the learning trail table
Why it works

AI behind the scenes. Paper in front of your child.

Akros uses each for what it does best.

What your child gets

The best learning surface

  • New skills taught with clear text and worked examples
  • Room to write, draw, and show every step
  • No texting, games, or apps competing for focus
  • Siblings can do their math at the same time: nobody needs to wait for the family tablet
What Akros does

Coaching and follow-through

  • Reads every handwritten answer and the work shown
  • Finds the exact wrong step and coaches to fix that mistake
  • Decides what to teach, repair, review, or skip next
  • Writes your daily email and keeps your dashboard current

Handwriting isn’t nostalgia. It’s neuroscience.

Brain-imaging research shows that handwriting engages connected motor, visual, and memory networks more strongly than typing. And in a 2025 study that followed more than 3,000 children, each extra hour of daily screen time was linked to about 10% lower odds of reaching a higher level on Grade 3 and Grade 6 math tests.

Personalization usually means a screen. Paper usually means a static worksheet. Akros combines the intelligence of the first with the learning surface of the second.
How Akros adapts

Every lesson works at the edge of what your child can do.

Pushing just past what you can already do is how ability grows.
In Akros, a wrong answer triggers the right next step, not just a score.

Layers of help when your child gets stuckFrom redo hints to re-teaching the building block underneath
  • RedoIt returns with fresh numbers, the child’s previous answer, and a targeted hint.
  • Coaching Row PremiumIf the redo still misses, Akros names the wrong turn and bridges to another attempt.
  • SwitchbackIf the explanation did not land, Akros teaches the same skill through a different route.
  • Targeted ReviewAfter the gap clears, Akros re-checks the skill to make sure the fix is sustained.
  • Building-block repairIf that review finds a lower gap, Akros teaches the earlier skill first: it finds the gap under the gap.
Rapid progress when your child is readySkips what your child already knows and moves on to new math
  • New teachingWorked examples and effective explanation introduce the next skill directly on the page.
  • Readiness checksPreview questions and dedicated Trail Finder Lessons show whether the next skill is already within reach. If they already know it, Akros does not waste time teaching it.
  • Spaced checksLearned skills return later, so the system can confirm that they still hold.
New Akros School Help

Test prep that already knows your child.

Send Akros photos of a study guide, school worksheet, school newsletter, or anything else related to the test topic.

Akros checks what your child already knows, builds a tailored study plan, and teaches the most important topics, all the way through test day.

  1. Send the school work

    A few photos of the study guide or recent homework, and the test date.

  2. Akros maps the test

    It finds the Akros lessons that teach the test topics, and weights each topic by how much of the test it covers.

  3. The first lesson arrives tonight

    Within minutes, the first test prep lesson and a study plan arrive by email. The lesson starts with a quick check across the test, so practice is focused on the most needed topics.

  4. Targeted lessons until test day

    Akros uses your child’s learning history to identify the test topics that need the most help. Every morning, you see how ready they are.

Your three jobs
  1. Sendthe school work
  2. Printeach lesson
  3. Uploadthe finished pages

Akros does the teaching.

Example planKate’s Test Prep TrailChapter 6 Test · Friday

Tap each day to watch the plan unfold

Ready for the test0%
Math topic on the testShareAfter the lesson

Test week, without the 9 PM scramble.

Included with Akros Premium for grades 2–8.See Premium
The child outcome

Math is the subject.Self-sufficiency is the lesson.

A hard problem naturally makes a child want to ask an adult for help. Akros provides the tools they need to do it on their own.

Every lesson is built for novice executability: Akros lessons are engineered so that your child can learn new math concepts, just by reading the page and following the worked examples. The measured +54-point accuracy gain after teaching shows that this works.

And if they miss a question, the skill returns with fresh numbers and a hint that points toward the next move without doing the work for them. 97% of the time, the missed question is repaired by Akros coaching.

Akros never hands them the solution. They earn it.

“Yesterday this problem beat me. Today I beat it.”

That feeling — a hard-won victory earned without parent or teacher help — is the strongest known builder of self-efficacy: your child’s belief that they can do hard things. And it comes at the age when every child is deciding, “Am I good at math?” Gaps tell them no. Earned wins tell them yes.

Kids who stack up earned wins in math start to believe they can figure out anything.
And that confidence travels with them out of math, into any challenge they face.
Engagement without the app

Math your child actually wants to finish.

A program your child resists is worth nothing, no matter how smart it is.
So we built Akros to be wanted.

Why Akros exists

Built by a parent who got tired of patching math gaps at 9 PM.

My daughters attend a great school and earn strong grades. Before Akros, math tests consistently produced the same 9 PM scramble: tired kids, hurried worksheets, and cramming that chased the grade instead of building a solid learning foundation.

I began to see knowledge gaps forming that would hold them back and frustrate them when they reached higher concepts. The struggles we were seeing in grades 3–5 would only get worse as they moved toward algebra.

So I built them custom math practice by hand, every day for three summers. Each day, I chose the right textbook pages, crossed out the questions they did not need, graded every answer with my college TI-83+ calculator, tracked their misses, and wrote extra questions for skills I knew they needed but were not in that day’s textbook lesson. It worked. The girls became noticeably more confident, and the school-year scrambles stopped.

It also took hours of my time every day.

Akros is the system I needed but did not have. Now it does those hours of work for you, every day.

— Phil Stiefel, Founder

Comparing your options

A tutor’s job at an app’s price.

A month of daily Akros lessons costs less than a single tutoring session.

Consistency is key to effective learning, and Akros teaches every day.

A review of 96 randomized studies found that tutoring is less effective when students complete fewer than three tutoring sessions a week. Hundreds of memory experiments agree: practice spread over many days beats the same practice crammed into a few. So the calculations below price a tutor at three sessions a week.

Monthly cost

Children
In-person tutor$60 an hour, 3× a week, plus driving
$893
Akros PremiumDaily lessons, School Help, coaching
$29.99
Akros DailyA lesson every day
$19.99
30×less than a tutor with Akros Premium, for one childTutors charge full price for every child. With Akros, every sibling is half price.
Parent time each month
Tutor20 hrs
Akros2 hrs

No need to interview or hire a tutor. No driving and no waiting room. Just a few minutes a day to print and snap photos.

Schedule flexibility
Tutor13 fixed
AkrosAny time

You don’t need to block time on your calendar for Akros: you can do it whenever works best for your child.

Practice each week
Tutor3
AkrosUp to 7

Frequent practice is what makes math stick.

Everything a tutor does, step by stepEight parts of a tutor’s job, and how Akros does each one
1Start at the right level

The Skills Check-Up places your child, and every graded answer keeps lessons at the right difficulty

About 7 missing topics found in week one, and topics your child already knows are skipped

2Teach what’s new

Concept Lessons with worked examples

26% → 80% right on new topics, after Akros taught them

3Work out why each answer was wrong

Reads every step of your child’s handwritten work

Every wrong answer gets a written diagnosis of the exact step that went wrong

4Re-teach that exact mistake

Redos with mistake-targeted hints, plus Coaching Rows on Premium

97% of missed questions fixed

5Practice until it sticks

Review timed to what your child is due to forget

85% of fixes still right a week or more later

6Keep you informed

A daily email and the parent dashboard

A report after every graded lesson, and zero minutes of grading

7Show up often

A new lesson every morning

Up to 30 lessons a month, vs. 13 tutor sessions

8Prepare for school tests

School Help: the Test Prep Trail and After Test Climb

Included with Akros Premium

The tradeoffs parents no longer have to accept

Drop-off tutoringHuman help, at a high cost

Standing appointments, a commute, and a big monthly bill.

Math appsPersonalized, but on a screen

The same device that carries games, messages, and distractions.

Textbooks and workbooksPaper, but unable to respond

The next page doesn’t know what your child missed yesterday.

Math apps

Check the answer.

They only see what your child taps or types: right or wrong, and nothing about why.

Akros

Reads the work.

  • Reads every step your child writes by hand
  • Finds exactly where they got stuck
  • Coaches that step in the next lesson, and lets your child find the answer
“We have used several tools over the years and so far I have the most confidence with this. Love the combination of mostly hands off for parents, paper sheets, show your work, and AI grading.”
George’s Dad, 7th Grade
Unedited message from an Akros subscriber.

Tutor: $60 an hour (the middle of the typical $35–$80 range), three one-hour sessions per week (13 per month), and a 12-mile round trip per visit at the 2026 IRS rate of 72.5¢ a mile.

Plans

One learning system. Two levels of support.

Akros Daily gives every child a daily lesson. Premium adds School Help and the deepest coaching.

Built for families. Priced for siblings.

How many children will use Akros?
Every sibling is half price.

  • 7-day money-back guaranteeon your first payment
  • 2 months freewhen you pay yearly
  • Price lockedfor as long as you stay
Daily habit
Akros Daily
Up to daily
$19.99/mo first child
+$9.99/mo each additional child
Daily lessons built from every answer.
  • A new lesson after the current one is completed, up to daily
  • Redos with hints, and review timed to what your child is due to forget
  • Summit Sprint fact fluency

Best for: daily practice for one child or several

Choose Akros Daily
Deepest coaching + School Help
Akros Premium
Up to daily
$29.99/mo first child
+$14.99/mo each additional child
Coaching built around your child’s mistakes, plus School Help for tests.
  • Everything in Akros Daily
  • Coaching Rows: when a redo still misses, the next lesson provides a lesson-in-miniature to re-teach the stuck concept
  • School Help: test prep built from your child’s school work, and missed test questions re-taught so nothing falls through the cracks
  • 8 instant gradings per child each month: results and the next lesson in about 10 minutes

Best for: families who want Akros to take the lead when math gets hard, and help with school tests

Choose Premium

Premium is $10 more a month than Daily for the first child, and $5 more for each sibling: about 33¢ a day.

No enrollment fee
Cancel online anytime
Pause up to 2 weeks
See a real lesson first

See it work in your first week. With a lesson most days, children fix about 14 missed questions and learn about 2 new math skills in their first week, on average.

If Akros isn’t right for your family, ask within 7 days of your first payment for a full refund.

Questions parents ask

The answers parents need before choosing a plan.

Will my child actually do this?
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.
What if my child is ahead, behind, or struggling?
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.
What is my role when my child gets stuck?
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.
Can Akros help with a test at school?
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.
What grades does Akros cover?
Kindergarten through Grade 8. Kindergarten and Grade 1 use Akros Junior, a visual See It → Do It → Try It format with minimal reading.
Is Akros aligned to Common Core or state standards?
Akros covers the same core mathematical skills while sequencing them from your child’s evidence rather than a fixed page order.
Do we have to use Akros every day?
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.
How do sibling and yearly prices work?
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.
What if Akros isn’t right for us?
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.
How does Akros handle uncertain handwriting?
Akros uses the answer, shown work, mathematical context, and the child’s writing patterns; a genuinely uncertain read goes to the parent for verification.
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You’re the coach.
Akros is the math teacher.

Daily practice for every child, with siblings half price. Add Premium for the deepest coaching, School Help, and instant grading.

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