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Cuddly Campaign to Address Urgency of Early Math Skills

Cuddly Campaign to Address Urgency of Early Math Skills

Bedtime Math, a nonprofit known for its mission to make math a fun part of kids’ everyday lives, launched March of the Stuffed Animals. It is a free program offered throughout the month of March that provided preschoolers a rare, introduction to basic math skills – all with the help…
New Season of Cyberchase Helps Kids Get Active with Math

New Season of Cyberchase Helps Kids Get Active with Math

The CyberSquad is back in action on November 9 when all new episodes of the PBS KIDS math series Cyberchase premiere on PBS stations across the country. Produced by THIRTEEN, Season 10 takes kids on educational adventures involving math, health, and the environment – from encouraging kids to be active…
Hyundai Funds ST Math Program in Schools

Hyundai Funds ST Math Program in Schools

Hyundai Motor America presented a grant to the School District of Philadelphia on Monday that will continue to provide ST Math, a visually based software program developed by the MIND Research Institute, to 6,000 students and 315 teachers at 19 Philadelphia campuses this year. This latest effort is part of…
Tiggly Launches iPad Compatible Physical Math Toy

Tiggly Launches iPad Compatible Physical Math Toy

New York-based edtech startup Tiggly, a company offering solutions to educate children in the digital age, announced Tuesday the launch of Tiggly Counts, an iPad-compatible physical math toy for children age 3 and up. Tiggly Counts aims to transform at-home math education for a new generation of connected kids, says…
Alec Sun Wins Raytheon Mathcounts Competition

Alec Sun Wins Raytheon Mathcounts Competition

Alec Sun of Lexington, Mass., won the 2013 Raytheon Mathcounts National Competition Friday in Washington, D.C. The winning Mathlete answered the following math problem in less than 45 seconds to be crowned the National Champion: Question:  What is the greatest integer that must be a factor of the sum of…
Apps to Help Kids Boost Math and Language Skills

Apps to Help Kids Boost Math and Language Skills

Lakeshore Learning Materials has launched four new apps based on its Math Quiz Game Show and Language Adventures Quiz Game Show interactive software titles. Available for free from the Apple App Store through March 11, 2013, Lakeshore's new apps offer children all the exciting sights and sounds of a real…
Teaching Table App for Math Lessons

Teaching Table App for Math Lessons

Dallas teacher Rebecca McPherson has developed Teaching Table, an iPad application that allows teachers to create interactive math lessons for their students. The app lets students learn and solve problems by interacting with digital manipulatives — visual representations of math concepts. “Most of the math apps were games focusing on…