Parents' Guide to

Bedtime Math

By Mieke VanderBorght, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 3+

Daily math inspires, but word problems have little variety.

App iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad , Android Free Education
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What’s It About?

The BEDTIME MATH app shows daily fun facts and associated three (or more) levels of math riddles. Tap to see the problem of the day, or tap "surprise" to be presented with one at random. Each problem includes a fun fact and buttons to choose a riddle for wee ones, little kids, and big kids, and sometimes there's also a super challenge. When the riddle appears, tap the "get the answer" star to see the answer. Past entries appear as a list on the left of the screen, and users can search, sort, and star them.

Is It Any Good?

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Consistent and reliable reminders get kids and parents thinking about math on a daily basis, but the math can get a bit repetitive and the website has more bells and whistles. It's true that it can help families make simple math-related talk and mathematical thinking into a fun habit: With something new to look at every day, math becomes something fun, accessible, and entirely normal as opposed to something boring, foreign, or fear-inducing. However, the app's interface is simple to a fault -- it feels mostly like a reference app. For example, the fun facts often refer to videos that aren't included (though they can be found on the website), and there's no way to mark which entries you've already seen other than to star them as favorites. Also, though the fun facts are mostly actually fun and even sometimes zany, the math problems seem to follow the same formula adapted slightly to incorporate the fun facts. More variety would really showcase all the different things we can do with math. Yet, overall, as a free resource, Bedtime Math is a nice, simple app for parents to use together with their kids that encourages everyone to think about math as a part of a routine.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about math, every day and on every occasion possible. Highlight how we use numbers, fractions, and proportions in our daily lives when we cook, shop, divide a pizza, and so on.

  • Read the fun facts and work out the problems together. Show kids that you have fun doing math, too.

  • When kids show particular interest in one of the daily fun facts, encourage and help them do research to learn more about it.

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