Our mission:
To make the nightly math problem as common as the bedtime story.
Bedtime Math is the brainchild of Laura Bilodeau Overdeck. While not a professional teacher, she does know something about numbers. As a kid she sat and memorized perfect squares for fun, back before it was cool. As a mom, she (along with her husband John) started giving math problems to their two older kids; when their 2-year-old started hollering for his own math problem, they knew they were onto something, and Bedtime Math was born. Laura holds a BA in astrophysics from Princeton University, and an MBA in public policy from the Wharton School. When not playing with numbers, Laura pursues her other interests, which include chocolate, wine, extreme gravity stunts, and Lego Mindstorms.
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This website is great!
Sharing with all my friends with wee ones!
This is a GREAT idea. I have several additional ideas for you. I can also help write “problems.” I have been running summer math camps for kids for 14 years. See http://www.mathtree.com. Please get in touch.
Thank you so much for Bedtime Math Problems! My 5 year old is literally begging for new ones. One math problem turns into many more each night. This is a fantastic idea!
Please ad me to your email list. This looks amazing! thank you
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My four year old is obsessed with numbers and this is great. He loves trying to stump my husband and I and his big brother with math problems. I can’t wait to bring it to bed time. I know he will love it because he woke up counting in the middle of the night. What a great idea.
Thank you for turning your idea into a reality that will make a difference for many families! I look forward to getting your emails to share with my 6 year old daughter.
This is a great idea. I am a middle school principal and read the article in the newspaper. I am going to add this sight to our newsletters and encourage parents to utilize this sight and the idea of “Bedtime Math.” Please add me to any email list and alerts. Thanks Much.
I am in my early 20s and nowhere near having my own kids yet, but I think this is BRILLIANT! I can’t wait to see this grow.
I red the news article and found myself agreeing out loud! Since my children started talking I’ve told them that math is a language. To be proficient you must speak it everyday. This will help me toward that goal.
red = read. I am proficient in English, but not in proofreading.
Please add me to your list of Bedtime Math. THKS Bob
Hi,
I just saw your article in tonight’s USA Today paper and I think this is a great idea. I am a third grade teacher and I would love to use some of your math problems as a warm-up when my 27 students enter the room each morning. What a good way to get a discussion going in the groups. I have not seen any sample math questions so I signed up tonight. Thanks!
Please add me to your email list. This is such a great idea!
Great Stuff. I’d be honored to be on your email list.
Here is a math-related joke that you might like…which could be a nice non-school day bedtime story.
A man goes into his third round of interviews at a small Silicon Valley startup.
He’s told that before he’s officially hired, that everyone who interviewed him was very impressed with his quick thinking and his quick wit, and they want him to show off for the entire company (about 15 people). They will ask him questions and he should answer as quickly and as accurately as possible while still showing off his quick wit. He thinks this is great, so he agrees.
1st. Question: How many days of the week being with the letter ‘T’.
Just as the person finishes the question, he answers…”2″.
The questioner says…”Right, but that’s not too clever”.
He immediately says…”Today and Tomorrow”.
Everyone laughs.
2nd. Question: How man seconds are there in a year.
He answers: “12.” Everyone says “12???”….he says…”Yeah, January 2nd, February 2nd, …March 2nd…etc..”.
Everyone laughs.
Final Question. How many ‘d’s in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
As soon as he hears the question…his arts start darting back and forth for about 5 seconds…and he says….”271″.
“How did you get that?”
He says – “I counted”.
“You’re way off…there are only 4 d’s in Rudoph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. How did you get 271?”
He says “Easy…I counted…dd d dd d d d dd dd d d…”(said to the tune of Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer) (try it)
Great site….
Heard about you on breakfast radio today, thanks for the idea. Now all’s we need to do is get you lovely Americans spelling correctly and we are there.
(Lots of Love from the UK !)
Going to try it on my 2 and 3 year olds tonight.
P.S its called MathS not Math.
Seriously, many thanks for this.
As a junior high and high school math teacher (and a hopeful soon-to-be mom), I was THRILLED when I stumbled across this website. My students are not in the target age-range for these problems, but I will be recommending this website to everyone I know! I hear on a daily basis students (and adults) say, “I am no good at math”. It breaks my heart that this is the “norm” now. I am very passionate about math, and it does my heart good to see people like you spreading the love around! Thank you so much!
I would also like to be added to the list to receive Bedtime Story mathematics problems. Thank you.
I am a board member for a reading literacy group working with 2200 inner city children here in Chicago providing one to one reading assistance. After reading the article about your bedtime math problems, it occured to me that the idea of math would compliment our mission of promoting literacy. Thank you.
I think that this is a clever way to teach mathematics to the youth and even the young at heart.
I tried something different with my oldest girl (2nd grade). I told her to give me math problems to solve tonight. The enthusiasm was off the chart. She started asking me about problems she has trouble with in math lab (computer based practice). I’ve decided every Sunday night is Dad’s night to solve the problems. she gets to relax, enjoy, and learn.
LOVE this idea. I been searching for a fun way to bring my love of math to my son. This seems like a great way to do that without making it feel like work. Math can be fun! You just need to present it in the right way. Many thanks!
GREAT idea!
I would like to add a link to your website to my beginning of the year parent letter. I teach 2nd grade. I love it! Empowering parents is an important part of what I do. Thank you!
What a great out-of-the-box idea for making math fun! We can’t wait to see what you come up with next.
Can’t wait to start.
I love the idea of using bedtime stories to build a foundation for math.
I am going to hand your flyer out at our Back to School night. I love it!! I am always getting requests for good math sites from parents and this will be so simple for them!
Such a great idea! I just signed up the email list and is going to spread the words to all my friends who have kids.
Just read the article about this site in the PAW. Love it! My daughter always asks for “analogies” once in bed, and now she’ll have some math too.