NEWARK -- If kids can enjoy bedtime stories, why not bedtime math problems? This bold concept was turned into an iPhone application two years ago by trained-astrophysicist-and-mom Laura Overdeck -- ...
Parents teach young children to love books by reading to them, often at bedtime. Laura and John Overdeck love math, so they started giving their kids a word problem to solve each night before tucking ...
A timeless childhood request. For many, nighttime narratives have long been an indispensable part of the daily wind-down. In Laura Bilodeau Overdeck's house, the flavor of those bedtime stories has ...
Laura Overdeck founded Bedtime Math, a nonprofit that helps kids love math so they will excel at it. She is the creator of its zany nightly online math problems, three Bedtime Math books (Macmillan), ...
You know what it is, that paralyzing panic when the clock starts ticking during a timed multiplication test. Or that feeling of helplessness that you may never understand algebra or trigonometry. Math ...
For many families, reading is as much a part of summer as cookouts and camp. But as the weather warms, math is often banished along with mittens and sweaters. And that’s a problem. Studies of “summer ...
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J.(CBSNewYork)-- What better way to learn math, than with a fun activity. On Thursday, CBS2's Dana Tyler watched as some New Jersey students got the lesson of a lifetime from counting ...