Building Bridges Among Generations
School may be out, but math doesn’t have to take a break for the Thanksgiving holidays! Measurement, estimation, patterns, and geometry come in handy when decorating your home for the holidays. When...
View ArticleSo You Wanna Be a…Percussive Dance Instructor
It’s a classic conundrum for creative kids: should you dance or play the drums? Well, why not do both at once? Percussive dancers use their feet to beat out neat rhythms, and when a group of dancers...
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It’s Hip to Be Square
My 7-year-old is a big fan of trivia books, and she is apt to randomly bring up interesting facts that stick with her. Luckily, National Geographic feeds her taste for bizarre and random with a large...
View ArticleSo You Wanna Be A…Tightrope Walker
Nik Wallenda has been walking on tightropes and setting world records for pretty much his entire life. His most recent record setting stunt was for the highest blindfolded tightrope walk ever. We...
View ArticleMake a LEGO Gift Box
The holidays are coming! My kids like to think outside of the box (no pun intended) and use their LEGO items in different ways, so we decided to make LEGO gift boxes for some of our presents. I knew it...
View ArticleBest of Bedtime Math: Strange Days Ahead
Well, we’ve made it (somehow) to the end of another year. While many great things happened this year, including the publishing of our second book, Bedtime Math: This Time It’s Personal, and the...
View ArticleBest of Bedtime Math: Worth the Trip
In our last Best of Bedtime Math post, we shared stories about road trips that didn’t end well. But a lot can go right on a journey too, and there are some places worth seeing no matter how hard it is...
View ArticleBest of Bedtime Math: A Playful Food Mood
Summer doesn’t just mean snacking on fresh fruit at the playground, it also means that food can be a playground! Here are some of our favorite Bedtime Math problems about food foolery: -If you slice...
View ArticleBest of Bedtime Math: World Record for Weird
Summer can be fun, of course, but it can also be stressful with zero school requirements or anything else to keep your kid busy. If you’re finding that there is such a thing as too much free time, why...
View ArticleBest of Bedtime Math: Pet Project
Pets: can’t live with them, can’t live without them. Whether it’s a rambunctious Rover, rascally rabbit, or regular old rock, we’re all fond of our non-human friends. Here are 13 of our favorite...
View ArticleFun That Sticks!
We don’t know about you, but one thing that gets us excited is a blank wall. Why? Because it’s the perfect canvas to build some math all over! In this new activity, we’ll show you how to create flowers...
View ArticleEdible Math: A Reason to Let Kids Play With Their Food
Hold on to your happy meals because math is about to take lunchtime to a new level. Tanwiches, tangram sandwiches, are a hot new trend sweeping the globe. According to a blog on The Guardian “edible...
View ArticleHow to Make a Math Board Game with Your Children
You don’t have to spend money to create a fun math board game for your children. With a few basic materials, you can make something at home. Depending on your children’s ages and artistic interests,...
View ArticleUsing Household Objects for Easy Hands-On Math Fun
Exposing your children to math concepts at home is a lot of fun and quite easy to do. Math is everywhere! Therefore, it’s easy to find things that are a part of your daily life at home and expand on...
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Paper Plate Weaving
Thanks to fairy tales like Sleeping Beauty and Rapunzel, most kids know that cotton is spun into thread, and thread is woven into cloth, but most kids these days have never seen a spindle or a loom in...
View ArticleRoyal Measuring Wand
Long ago, a foot was not 12 inches, but rather the actual length of the king’s foot. Of course, that meant when there was a new king, there would be a new definition of the length of a foot. Over time...
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Buried Treasure in Oobleck
Make the Oobleck Oobleck is a mixture of cornstarch and water mixed in a ratio of 2:1. Plan on at least ½ cup of cornstarch per child. So for one child mix ½ cup of cornstarch with approximately ¼ cup...
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Game of the Week: M&M Madness
We know parents are juggling a lot at home. We’re here to help – and to make it easy. Every Monday we’ll highlight a lively hands-on math game you can do with your kids to keep the math learning going...
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Game of the Week: Beach Ball Party
We know parents are juggling a lot at home. We’re here to help – and to make it easy. Every Monday we’ll highlight a lively hands-on math game you can do with your kids to keep the math learning going...
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Game of the Week: Face-Off
We know parents are juggling a lot at home. We’re here to help – and to make it easy. Every Monday we’ll highlight a lively hands-on math game you can do with your kids to keep the math learning going...
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