This is such a great idea - Bedtime Math!
Every night across the country children's literacy is being improved as parents sit down to read their children a bedtime story. We perceive a story to be a relaxing and quiet way to spend the time before we put a child to bed. There is no reason why we can't do the same thing with math and science.
Thanks to Laura Overdeck, the chair of the Center for Talents Youths Advisory Board, we can. She just launched a new program called Bedtime Math Problem. It may have the potential to make bedtime math problems as loved as the bedtime story.
Not too long ago Overdeck started sharing a nightly math problem with her two school-age children to get them excited about math in their everyday lives. As it continued, Laura found they kept wanting more and soon their two-year-old brother declared he wanted a nightly math problem of his own. This simple process turned into Bedtime Math Problem, a once a day math problem grownups can sign up to receive and solve with the young mathletes in their life.
I've signed up; it is great. I get a daily email that offers three levels of problem to use with my children. Simple as that. If we are flat out busy and don't get to it, it doesn't matter as there has been no outlay of cost or anything. Hats off to Laura Overdeck. This project is a winner. A simple idea that may have as much of an impact on improving the science, technology, engineering and math interest in our children as many other well-funded programs.
