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OUR PACKS
Real worksheets. Real AI tools. Real Etsy.
PRETEND PLAY • NEW
Little Grocery Store
A printable pretend-play world — your child runs their own shop, counts real play coins, and adds up each customer’s order. Ages 4–8.
Free AI Shopkeeper Mode included
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PACK 1
1st Grade Math  ·  $7
60 short-burst worksheets across Volume 1 + Volume 2. Counting, addition, subtraction, word problems, place value intro. ADHD-friendly five-questions-per-page format.
+ ADHD Math Helper GPT included
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PACK 2
Telling Time  ·  $7
60 short-burst worksheets across Volume 1 + Volume 2. Hour, half-hour, quarter, five-minute, elapsed time, schedule reading. ADHD-friendly.
+ Time Buddy AI tutor included
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PACK 3
Place Value  ·  $7
60 short-burst worksheets. Tens and ones, place value to 100. ADHD-friendly.
+ Place Value Buddy AI tutor included
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PACK 4
Sight Words  ·  $7
95 pages. Fry First 100 sight words in twenty sets of five. Same five-at-a-time method. ADHD-friendly.
+ Sight Word Buddy AI tutor included
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PACK 5
Handwriting  ·  $7
80 pages. 26 lowercase, 26 uppercase, numbers 0 through 9. Grouped by stroke similarity, five letters at a time.
+ Handwriting Helper AI tutor included
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PACK 6
Counting Money  ·  $7
60 short-burst worksheets. Pennies to quarters, counting coins, making amounts, reaching one dollar. Five questions per page. ADHD-friendly.
+ ADHD Math Helper GPT included
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NEW
AI Math Tutor Starter Kit · $3
A 14-page parent guide that turns the free AI app on your phone into a patient, kind math tutor. 6 copy-and-paste tutor recipes, the five-question method, a worked example, and the research behind it.
+ Brightburst Buddy AI tutor hub included
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SEASONAL
Color by Number  ·  $4.50
54 color-by-number pages. Solve a little, color a lot. Summer-themed and ADHD-friendly.
+ ADHD Math Helper GPT included
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The Story

From 30 Problems to 5.

It started at the kitchen table. One of a child in our close family was crying over a 30-question math worksheet. The math wasn't the problem — the page was. Thirty problems on one sheet was thirty chances to feel defeated, when five would have been five chances to feel capable.

I'm a grandfather. I'm not a teacher, not a clinician, not an algorithm. I'm just someone who watched a real kid melt down over a real worksheet and decided to do something about it. Bright Burst Learning is what came out of that decision.

Every page I make is built on one idea: five wins beats thirty losses. Same kid. Same skill. Different page.

Why It Works

Four Principles. All from Real Research.

Bright Burst worksheets aren't a gimmick. They're built on cognitive-science research that's been around for decades — just rarely applied to actual worksheets.

1
The Spacing Effect (Robert Bjork). Short focused practice with breaks beats long blocks. Five minutes + break + five minutes >> fifteen minutes straight. Use it tonight — you'll see the difference by Friday.
2
Cognitive Load Theory (John Sweller). Working memory is limited. Mixed-concept pages eat working memory on context-switching. Single-concept pages preserve it for the math.
3
Pediatric Attention Research. Kids ages 5-9 have a 5-7 minute focused-attention window. ADHD kids? 3-5 minutes. Both are normal. The 30-question worksheet was designed for an attention span that doesn't exist in this age group.
4
Growth Mindset (Carol Dweck). The words at the bottom of the page matter. "I finished" + "I tried" beats "100% correct." Effort framing beats ability framing — especially for ADHD kids who often feel like they're "bad at math."
What We Believe

Five Tenets That Guide Every Page.

Tenet 01
Short Bursts Beat Long Blocks

Five-to-seven-minute focused chunks consistently outperform thirty-minute marathons. Wins compound. Frustration shrinks.

Tenet 02
Kids Aren't Broken — The Format Is

An ADHD child isn't a broken neurotypical child. A child who freezes on a fifty-question page isn't lazy. We change the page, not the kid.

Tenet 04
Parents and Grandparents Are the Real Teachers

The most important classroom in a child's life is the kitchen table. We give the people who already love that child the well-designed materials they deserve.

Tenet 07
One Win Per Page

Every Bright Burst page is engineered so the child finishes feeling capable. Done. Win banked. Brain wired to come back tomorrow. Confidence is the curriculum.

Tenet 08
Honest, Never Hype

We will never promise a worksheet "cures" ADHD or "fixes" dyslexia. We promise small, specific, honest things — and we deliver them.

Tenet 09
The Whole Family Wins

When math homework stops being a fight, dinner is calmer. We design for the household, not just the worksheet.