Fun Math Resources for Families: June #STEMchat Recap

We “chatters” not only support the idea of integrating math into everyday life, but we walk the talk with family games, observations and activities. It’s clear that many of us take advantage of things like trips to the grocery store (price comparison!), baking (measurement!) and dining out (learning to calculate gratuities!).

We also teach financial literacy by giving our children allowance, statistics through sports, and concepts like surface area via home improvement projects like painting.

We believe that math is as important as reading and we spend time as a family working on logic puzzles or playing games that require counting and math (old school Monopoly, anyone?).

By making math fun and relevant to children, we make the topic more approachable and less fearsome. We reinforce that math is a part of life, not just an endless and sometimes frustrating series of worksheets and homework. Of course, all this jives with our sponsor’s key beliefs as well as their new Bedtime Math book.

Math Books That Put the FUN in Fundamental

• BedtimeMath by Laura Overdeck
• Ten Little Ladybugs by Melanie Gerth (board book)
• Monster Munchies by Laura NumeroffMurderous Maths by Posit Kjartan
• MathStart series by Stuart J. Murphy and others
• Grapesof Math by Greg Tang
• One Grain of Rice by Demi
• Butterflies for Kiriorigami book by Cathryn Falwell
• Sir Cumference and the FirstRound Table by Cindy Neuschwander
• Ninety-Threein my Family by Erica Perl
• ChasingVermeer by Blue Balliett
• The Puzzling World of Winston Breen and The Potato Chip Puzzles (and other puzzlers) by Eric Berlin
• TheToothpaste Millionaire by Jean Merrill
• Also see this comprehensive list of fun math books for young kids from book curator Zoobeans

• Bedtime Math main website and Bedtime Math parent blog
• Brain Pop, Math
• Math Playground
• WebSudoku
• KenKen puzzles
• NoTime for Flash Cards math activities
• Five Triangles math, free math problems
• Cool Math website, lessons and games to make math fun
• WolframAlpha for systematic knowledge
• Khan Academy, learn almost anything for free                     
• Mirshahi nteractive math games
• Math apps for the classroom
• The Maker Mom blog

MathCDs by Ron Brown

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