Bedtime Math
Making math relevant so kids want to learn it.
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Hang On to That Horse!
What can be more fun than strapping boards to your feet and sliding fast down a mountain of snow? Being pulled by a horse while doing this and whizzing down the hill even faster! Read on to horse around with the numbers in this crazy sport called skijoring.
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Your 25-Hour Day
Tonight people across the U.S. will end "daylight savings," that time of year when our clocks say a time 1 hour later than the "real" time in space. We'll turn our clock hands back 1 hour, and in the spring turn them forward as we do every year. Why do we do this? Read more to…
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Map Your Favorite Candy!
What's your favorite Halloween candy? Does it match the favorite candy of most people where you live? Read on to map out the math in everyone's favorite candy across the country!
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Bat’s All, Folks
Bats may look a little weird and scary, but they're pretty neat animals that help us out more than we may know! Read on to go batty with the math behind these cool creatures.
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Not Quite Scraping the Sky
Normally, skyscrapers are big buildings for which you have to reach your head really far back to see the top. But the Newby-McMahon "skyscraper" in Texas is a little different. Read on to find out why - and see how it can be really important to do the math when it comes to…
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Cookies for Your Pet Grasshopper
Our fan Joey K. asked a great question: how fast could a grasshopper eat a cookie? Scientists aren’t sure how fast a grasshopper eats, but they do know that it can eat 16 times its own weight in 1 day! These bugs each weigh about half a gram, so the grasshopper could eat only 8…
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Your Very Hungry Vacuum Cleaner
How does a vacuum cleaner work? The machine has a really strong fan spinning inside. Instead of blowing air out at you, the fan pulls air — and dirt, and Lego, and little fuzzies from your sweater — up into the vacuum. A normal vacuum cleaner can lift about 5 pounds with the…
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What It Takes to Be Superman
They say Superman is "faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound." But just how fast, powerful, and high-jumping is he? Read on to put numbers to the powers of Superman!
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Bike-Powered Pooch
If you've ever walked a dog, you know it's usually hard to keep up with them. But now there's a way that you and your pooch can exercise together and go the perfect speed for both of you! Read on to pedal through the math in this awesome exercise machine for you and your puppy…
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Backyard Ninja
Have you ever wanted to be a ninja? Well, this girl is well on her way with her very own backyard ninja course. And you'd be surprised how much math there is in being a super sneaky spy. Read on to swing through the ninja math!
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Kissing a Hippo
Whether these hippos are kissing, playing, or just shoving each other out of the way, it sure looks like they're having fun! Hippos are pretty large animals, which means there are a lot of numbers that come with this playful pair. Read on to do the mammal math behind these…