Bedtime Math

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Bedtime Math
Type Non-governmental, non-profit organization
Purpose Educational
Location
Official language
English
Founder and president
Laura Overdeck
Chief operating officer and director of research
Sara Thom
Sandy LoPiccolo
Chief strategy officer
Diana Pecina
Website bedtimemathfoundation.org

Bedtime Math is a non-profit organization focused on mathematics education for young children, launched by Laura Overdeck in February 2012. [1]

Contents

History

Bedtime Math was founded in February 2012, initially as a website. In March 2014, Bedtime Math launched Crazy 8s, a free nationwide after-school recreational math club. [2]

In 2019, Bedtime Math created Fun Factor, a K–5 curriculum developed in consultation with Teachers College, Columbia University. It features math activities. [3]

Products

Bedtime Math's main offering is daily math problems for elementary school-age kids, broadcast by email and posted daily on the website's homepage and Facebook page. [4]

Reception

Bedtime Math has been featured in The New York Times parenting blog, USA Today , and National Public Radio (NPR); its books have been featured on NPR's Science Friday and reviewed in The Wall Street Journal . [11] Time described it as "heartening news for educators who bemoan the state of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education in the U.S." [12]

In 2015, an article in the journal Science reported on a randomized trial on the use of the Bedtime Math iPad that the "app provide limited support for the effectiveness of the intervention" with "no significant improvement in math performance for the experimental group compared with the control group". [13] [14] [15] In 2018, the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General and University of Chicago psychologists claimed that the app "has long-lasting effects even after children stop using the app". [16]

In 2018, researchers at Johns Hopkins University released the results of a study that claimed that the students who took part in Crazy 8s reduced their math anxiety, with the art club students not experiencing a significant reduction in math anxiety. [17] The effect was more pronounced among students in the kindergarten through second grade club. [18] [19]

It was named one of the best online learning math apps for kids by The New York Times, [20] and one of the Outstanding Apps in Early STEM Learning for Children by the Brookings Institution. [21] [22] [23] [24]

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