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Bedtime Math: A Fun Excuse to Stay Up Late (Bedtime Math #1)
Our mission: to make math a fun part of kids' everyday lives.
We all know it's wonderful to read bedtime stories to kids, but what about doing math? Many generations of Americans are uncomfortable with math and numbers, and too often we hear the phrase, "I'm just not good at math!" For decades, this attitude has trickled down from parents to their kids, and we now have a cu ...more
We all know it's wonderful to read bedtime stories to kids, but what about doing math? Many generations of Americans are uncomfortable with math and numbers, and too often we hear the phrase, "I'm just not good at math!" For decades, this attitude has trickled down from parents to their kids, and we now have a cu ...more
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This was an instant hit with my children and me. Because what do you know, math really does apply to real life! This book illustrated that fact in a fun way that got my children excited about math. The story topics were fact based and presented in kid entertaining appeal and illustrations. For example, in the "Tipping the Scales" narrative (pg22-23), it compared the biggest animal on land and sea .."African elephant weighs around 8,000 pounds, a blue whale weighs about 160 tons. A ton is 2,000 p
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Bedtime Math is a fun book for kids with lots of interesting facts about many different sorts of things, all of which tie into mathematics. The first chapter is devoted to food. Learn interesting tidbits about popcorn, eggs squash and more. You read the info provided on the left hand side and on the right there is a math riddle to solve. There are three riddles provided for three different age groups so that kids from kindergarten through middle school can all feel challenged. The other chapter
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This book can be great for sending home with students. Many parents in my field placement today ask for certain books and materials to be sent home with their child in order to practice math with them. This is such a difficult thing to do since we are not provided with math workbooks and such. A teacher should keep "Bedtime Math" in the classroom because it is a fun, engaging book you can send home with a student to have their parents read to them before bed.
Every parent needs this book!
We've been reading and answering three of these a night before our novel read allowed. It's a nice way to looks a word problems without visual aids or paper. I love that there are different levels. My daughter can easily answer the first two levels and sometimes gets the third or we work it out together. Great way to add in a bit more math to our day.
This book was so much fun. It has 39 nights worth of math problems. My six year old enjoyed it so much, he did the whole book in two nights! There are three different levels for each problem - wee ones, little kids, and big kids. We will be saving this book and doing again at the next math level. There are currently three books in this series and it looks like they will be publishing the fourth book soon.
My kids LOVE this book! I couldn't believe it. I borrowed it from the library thinking they may enjoy one or two of the pages, but it became a night-time ritual and race to see who can figure out the word problems first. Great illustrations, fun facts, and fun problems for many ages. I just LOVE how each page has problems for wee-ones, little ones, and big ones, making this book wonderful for a family with multiple children.
This math book has a short informational paragraph on one page and the facing page has three questions concerning the information in the paragraph. The questions are at different levels: Wee ones, Little kids, and Big kids. The questions are all appropriate for prek-elementary aged children. I really enjoyed the informational paragraphs and I think children would as well. Beyond that, the questions are often humorous in addition to encouraging children to think. For example, there is a paragraph
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Non-Fiction: Bedtime Math
Twin text:
Child, L. (2016). Absolutely one thing. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press.
My non-fiction text, Bedtime Math by Laura Overdeck and illustrated by Jim Paillot, takes readers through various math situations drawn from real life facts and situations. The book contains different problems to solve based on age and ability levels. My fiction twin text, Absolutely One Thing by Lauren Child, tells the story of a brother and sister counting and solving basic math while o ...more
Twin text:
Child, L. (2016). Absolutely one thing. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press.
My non-fiction text, Bedtime Math by Laura Overdeck and illustrated by Jim Paillot, takes readers through various math situations drawn from real life facts and situations. The book contains different problems to solve based on age and ability levels. My fiction twin text, Absolutely One Thing by Lauren Child, tells the story of a brother and sister counting and solving basic math while o ...more
This is a fun collection of word problems that shows how math can be incorporated into bedtime fun. The math is simple and the examples are humorous. The illustrations by Jim Paillot are colorful and cartoonish and totally reminded our girls of his work on the My Weird School series.
I liked how the author, Laura Overdeck, explained how this book came into existence and her website (www.bedtimemath.org) that offers daily math topics and problems. I loved how science is often blended into the dif ...more
I liked how the author, Laura Overdeck, explained how this book came into existence and her website (www.bedtimemath.org) that offers daily math topics and problems. I loved how science is often blended into the dif ...more
I have been excitedly waiting for this book to be published. Developed by an astrophysicist, this book is hot off the presses and extraordinary! I have been doing the math problems with my kids at bedtime from bedtime maths web-page and the daily e-mails that get sent to me for sometime now. Brilliant, brilliant concept. Amazingly put together, easily implemented. I've been telling my kids's teachers all about the web-page and the book. This book shows how fun math is. It promotes metal math abi
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Laura Overdeck started out as an astrophysicist, then went back to school for an MBA and started helping venture capital firms evaluate the business plans of startup companies. Then, she had three children. With her own background in math, it seemed only natural to tell her then 2-year-old bedtime math stories. Friends started asking her to write the stories down. She sent them out in an email to 10 selected friends, who passed them around to their friends, doubling and redoubling her list as sh
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Math problems instead of a bedtime story? Wait, don't run screaming from the room! Everyone loves a good bedtime story and you'll get some fun ones in this book. They are short, interesting, little informational paragraphs about things like ketchup, pancakes, helicopters and swimming pools. "Um...OK," you say while rolling your eyes. No, really! They ARE fun. And there's an added bonus a really easy (yes, very easy) but fun puzzle to solve at the end of the paragraph. Not only is the puzzle fun,
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My four-year old loves this book. "Let's do some bedtime maff!" While we teach children to love reading by reading with them every night, there really isn't anything similar for math. Enter Bedtime Math. It's a book full of simple and silly word problems. Each right-hand page has three problems relating to the little story on the opposite page. "Wee Ones" are single-digit addition and subtraction. "Little Kids" are adding and subtracting larger numbers, < and >, and simple multiplication a
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Love the idea of this book, but would have loved more real facts and such. It seemed a little fluffy. And I didn't care for the food section....would have rather had it all about animals or nature (forget learning about hamburgers). Also not all of the pages are for my four year old...that's definitely a minimum age...maybe closer to seven would fit all the info Better, but I do like that it has three age level type questions per page. But I find that I can do the same things with any book (or s
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My first grader absolutely loved this book. It’s fun and puts math in a practical, real-world context. It has different levels of problems, so you can start simple for even preschoolers. My son sometimes needed help with the big kid category problems but it was great to see the moment when it clicked for him. I kept pencil and paper on hand so we could write out the problems when a little more explanation was necessary. We read typical books every night too, but honestly he would much rather do
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I didn't actually read the whole book, but I did want to pass along the title for those of you with young children who might be interested in it. Check it out of your library and read the introduction and look at a few sample questions. I thought the concept of helping children to become more mathematically literate was a great idea, and the intro has good suggestions. I didn't love a lot of the problems, but they do give you a good idea on how to set up your own questions teaching children to l
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I was skeptical when so many parents were saying their kiddo loved this book, but hey, I was willing to try. My kiddo alternates between loving math and hating it, so I am happy to have her stay up a few minutes later for learning. She loved it. We are almost done and about to get the next one. There is a paragraph to read about a mostly interesting topic, and then three math questions after ranging from easy to hard. (The book says 'wee ones' 'big kids' etc)
Oct 15, 2013
:Donna Marie
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BEDTIME MATH This is a VERY clever way to bring math into the "fun" realm, in a "game" sort of way. I'm all for that! With subject matter like:
- Exploding Food
- Wild Pets
- Extreme Vehicles
- Sports You Shouldn't Try at Home
- Really Odd Jobs
...kids become interested. Each problem needing solving is given in three levels: Wee Ones, Little Kids, Big Kids. If you want bedtime to "add up" in a very positive way, check out this book.
- Exploding Food
- Wild Pets
- Extreme Vehicles
- Sports You Shouldn't Try at Home
- Really Odd Jobs
...kids become interested. Each problem needing solving is given in three levels: Wee Ones, Little Kids, Big Kids. If you want bedtime to "add up" in a very positive way, check out this book.
Bedtime Math is so much fun for our family. You read a small story which actually is a word problem. Then I ask my children the math problem. There are different levels that way no matter what your children's math level they can be included. The problems are so much fun, you could also pair them with fun movie nights like when you eat popcorn. My kiddos ask for these every night. The only problem was we went through the book so quickly.
(Fictional)This is an excelent math book that uses fiction to teach counting concepts. It is about a boy whos to goes to sleep and dreams about counting. He rides a flying carpet that floats high in the sky. He finds stars and colorful numbers floating that he counts.This book will hold the interest of any child because it includes magic that seems to excite young children. It can be used for pre k to second grade.
I hope this book inspires many families to start the bedtime math habit!
This book is motivating and easy to use. First read a short "story" and then solve the related problems. There are three levels and you can answer one or more as you choose. The equations and answers are easy to locate at the back of the book.
Be sure to check out the related books, also written by Laura Overdeck.
This book is motivating and easy to use. First read a short "story" and then solve the related problems. There are three levels and you can answer one or more as you choose. The equations and answers are easy to locate at the back of the book.
Be sure to check out the related books, also written by Laura Overdeck.
I picked two to three problems per night - my 4 year old would answer the "wee ones" questions, and my 8 year old would answer the "little kids" and "big kids" questions. They absolutely loved the book, and looked forward to reading new question vignettes every night. We are now on to Bedtime Math 2.
My 4 year old enjoys the lowest level math problems. I like that there are 2 more levels in the book to grow with my kids.
Plus the cover glows in the dark, which was a big hit
Update: my 5 year old is obsessed. We do several problems every night
Plus the cover glows in the dark, which was a big hit
Update: my 5 year old is obsessed. We do several problems every night
I love this concept. My only critique is tagging the problems for the youngest children 'wee ones' is nauseatingly twee and will turn off kids, which is a shame. The book seems designed to be bought and administered by parents rather than selected and used by kids.
Dec 03, 2013
Krupal Morjaria
rated it
it was amazing
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We're used to reading plenty of bedtime stories but who has ever heard of a math bedtime story? This book is great because its a fun way to solve different math problems before falling asleep. It teaches students how to solve numerous different problems before going to bed.
All the books in this series are brilliant and fun. What a great way to turn stories into math. Not the painful "story problems" that you are thinking of. These are a delight for grownups and children alike as you read and solve them together.
What a great book to start MATHematical thinking when children are small! The book even differentiates for you if you have little "wee ones", "little kids", or "big kids" to read to at bedtime. Math is everywhere and it is FUN! Another "must-have" book in the series of STEM books.
What a great concept! Bedtime story problems! I like that there are three levels of difficulty so all ages can participate. The illustrations are fun and entertaining. This book will get kids out of the rut of thinking math is no fun.
Short nonfiction texts, then three levels of story math problems (for "wee ones," "little kids," and "big kids") to go with. Two other books in the series AND a website where it all began.
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