Bedtime Math National Pajama Party Week Can Add Some FUN to Your Summer!

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I'll be reviewing this book next week, but I wanted to let you know about the fun activities 

coming up next week to celebrate it!

BEDTIME MATH NATIONAL PAJAMA PARTY WEEK” WILL ENCOURAGE MATH FUN IN BOOKSTORES AND LIBRARIES ACROSS THE U.S. JUNE 24-29

Free events in more than 50 markets will include family-friendly, math-focused games to celebrate release of Bedtime Math’s first book. (Pajamas encouraged!)

                                                                                                             

Bookstores and libraries in more than 50 locations around the country will take part in the first “Bedtime Math National Pajama Party Week,” to make math fun, exciting and relevant for children 3 to 8 years old.  Most of the Pajama Parties take place between June 24 and 29, and include readings, math-inspired games, and activities that celebrate the release of BEDTIME MATH: A Fun Excuse to Stay Up Late.  

The Pajama Parties are free, family-friendly events with educator-approved activities such as “Mystery Clocks,” “Make Your Own Animals” tangram puzzles, “Build Your Own Zip Line,” and more.  Stores and organizations hosting the parties will receive party kits provided free by Bedtime Math and will encourage customers to bring children dressed in pajamas and ready to play!  While events vary in date and time throughout the week (and some take place later in the summer), all are designed to give local parents and children a chance to take part in Bedtime Math’s growing national movement. 

Bedtime Math is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to make the nightly math problem as common as the bedtime story.  In addition to its forthcoming book (the first of three from Feiwel and Friends), the organization has received significant national media attention over the past year, launching math-focused activities across a number of platforms.  Bedtime Math was founded in early 2012 by mother of three Laura Overdeck, a trained astrophysicist and lifelong math fan.  The program grew out of the fun nightly math problems she and her husband had been giving their kids for years.The idea caught on among Overdeck’s friends, then blossomed.  Bedtime Math’s nationwide subscriber list now tops 30,000 and its social media presence on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, continues to grow exponentially. 

                                                

Bedtime Math launched a series of well-received math videos in April on YouTube, along with a mobile app that landed in the iTunes top 20 list of educational apps.  The group’s “Summer of Numbers” initiative to prevent student math skills from sliding over the school break received over 60,000 orders, and is still available! “We firmly believe that learning math skills can be a fun, engaging and exciting family activity,” Overdeck says.  “Parents, grandparents and anyone who cares about math literacy in America can encourage the children in their lives to enjoy math as play, without making it seem like homework,” she says.

You can see if there is an even in your area, by checking the list here. No event in your area? Check out the kits that are available and spearhead an even at your local library this Summer! 

Now how about a sample Bedtime Math Problem?

Let's think about animals out there who have 8 legs!

Questions:

Preschoolers: Can you think what animals have 8 legs?

   Answers: spiders, scorpions, lobsters,crabs,octopus, shrimp and crawfish.

PreK-K: If a horse’s steps are 1, 4, 2, then 3, and so far the horse has stepped 1,4,2,3,1,4, which foot takes the next step?
  Answer: 2

1st-3rd Grade: If a crab steps with all 8 legs in a certain order before repeating the pattern, how many total steps has it taken when every leg has stepped twice?  
   Bonus: If the crab then takes a 3rd step with 6 of its legs, now how many steps has it taken?

4th Grade and up: In this home video of a crab walking sideways, it looks like the feet on one side step in the order 1,3,2,4. If the 4 legs on the other side follow the same order but a split-second later, the pattern is 1,5,3,7,2,6,4,8. Which leg will take the 37th step?  

    Bonus: Leg number 6 takes the 6th step in this order; then the 14th step, then the 22nd, and so on. After the first round of steps, when will that 6th leg take a step that also ends in a 6?

SEE! Math Can be FUN!

Stay tuned for our book review next week and see you at the Bedtime Math National Pajama Party!