An Informational Blog for Parents, Faculty and Staff
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"Short Hills resident launches Bedtime Math"
Short Hills resident launches Bedtime Math
BY ANDREA HUGHES
MANAGING EDITOR
Township resident Laura Bilodeau Overdeck wants to jumpstart children’s math skills using a familiar bedtime ritual.
Overdeck is chairwoman of the Advisory Board for Johns Hopkins’ Center for Talented Youth (CTY), vice chairwoman of the Board for Governor’s School of New Jersey and a trustee of Liberty Science Center and of Drew University. She recently launched Bedtime Math, a non-profit through which she emails and posts creatively worded math problems every day for parents to read their children before bed.
Provided free of charge, the problems use everything from animals and clothing to fantastical subjects such as "X-Ray Vision Carrots" to get children to count, add, subtract, figure out percentages and more. They are posted daily on www.bedtimemathproblem.org
The problems have different levels of difficulty for "wee ones" at preschool age, "little kids" in kindergarten through second grade and "big kids," in second grade onward. An answer key is posted with each set of problems.
