I have 3 children. My first could and did sit down and do workbooks at 2 yrs old. That was her "Thing" which is why those books are for ages 2-4. For those kids who's interest is academic stuff. She knew her whole alphabet, could count to 20, knew her shapes, could spell her name, knew her colors, and was potty trained, all before her second birthday! So imagine my expectations when I had my second child, the poor thing, I just felt like she was BELOW average because my first was so gifted! My second will be 4 this week. The darling little girl will stare at me like a deer in headlights when I ask her things/she asks me something and forgets that I just answered her. I too wonder if she would be the child labeled ADHD if she went to school. But I just grew to understand that she isn't the academic child. She didn't even know 1 color by her 2nd birthday nor ANY of the other stuff listed for my first!! But as she gets older, I see her other gifts. She is very imaginative (my first wasn't at all), witty, compassionate, plays independently well (my first didn't). And in her own time, she has learned her alphabet, colors, numbers to 12, shapes is potty trained, spells her name, and always walks around pointing out when things rhyme. It just was on her own time table. We spend very little time using workbooks. We pull them out when she is interested. I try to get different things, more hands on to keep her interested in learning. That seems to help. My third, just turned 2 and he is more like my first (though not at the gifted level) he just listens well, it almost seems amazing how well he listens because my 2nd just doesn't listen well at all! Hope this is helpful in maybe showing you that she will do it in her time. There is no harm in trying but don't let learning time become a time of stress at an age where so much learning can come naturally, you don't want her to grow to dislike school. Every day I am sure you have tons of moments with natural learning. When you give her 3 crackers, after she eats one you can count them with her and say "Now you have 2", little things like that will teach her. With my almost 4 yr old, we don't even do "cirriculum" every day, but when we do, on her time, when her little mind is "there" we could end up doing it for an hour! Often times it is just 5-10 min, but she asks for it. That shows a desire for leaning, and that is afterall what we want, right?

I was talking to a woman in a home school gym class my daughter takes and she told me how this website is a wealth of information. And I agree!

At the convention last year, the people at the booth said for my at the time 3rd grader, I should do the Astronomy or Botony books because they are for a bit younger than the Zoology books.

Does Mammoth math use similar technique for teaching math as Singapore Math, ie: thinking math? In more of the way the Asians learn math? Or is it a completely different technique?

When you purchase Monarch, it is active for 18 months, so NO you wouldn't be able to reuse for the next child.