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Website helps parents teach kids maths at bedtime
Author: Jonathan Warren
Many kids look forward to their bedtime story at the end of the day - but could you get them to tackle maths problems with the same enthusiasm? One astrophysics graduate (and mother) in New Jersey thinks so. Laura Overdeck, the founder of the website Bedtime Math, says the trick is to wrap the exercise in a story involving something like animals, cars or sweets that makes your toddler count in their head or on their fingers.
The website gives parents a daily maths problem to work into their kids' nightly routine before they settle down to sleep in their children's beds, as well as tips for working on the problems. "There's a whole generation of moms out there who don’t like math, and it becomes a self-reinforcing cycle," Patch.com reports Mrs Overdeck as saying. "My goal is to enable parents who are uncomfortable with math develop kids who really excel at it."
Problems are tailored to three age groups - "wee ones", "little kids" and "big kids". Since it was launched in February sending daily emails to around 20 to 30 people, Bedtime Math now has 15,000 subscribers to its free service and a book is now in the works.
