Motion Math Blog

Stanford professor Carol Dweck has discovered that how we praise our children can benefit or detriment their self view. Being mindful about how you praise your child can help your child foster a growth mindset and boost his or her motivation, resilience and learning.

We’re excited to share that parents and teachers have downloaded our math games more than one million times – a milestone we hit thanks to your support! We’re also excited to share a sneak peak of our first game for preschoolers, Motion Math: Hungry Guppy, the prequel to Motion Math: Hungry Fish.

Many children approach multiplication with dread: there’s many multiplication problems to memorize, and often, students don’t have a solid concept for what multiplying really means. You can play these fun multiplication games with your child to deepen your child’s relationship with multiplication (and enrich your relationship as well!).

“Some dispassionate, quantitative reasoning could really bring a great deal to the debate [on copyright law]” – Rob Reid on Copyright Math™. This fun TED talk shows how you can play with numbers, even in a context like the entertainment industry’s perspective on content theft.

Thus begins humor author and Rhapsody founder’s TED talk on Copyright Math™, which breaks down the numbers from the entertainment industry to examine its perspective of content theft.

“If students don’t understand fractions early on, they often struggle with algebra and mathematical reasoning later in their schooling,” – Susan Courey, assistant professor of special education at San Francisco State University. A recent study found that kids who learned fractions through a music-based curriculum outperformed peers in traditional math classes.

When your child is learning, and perhaps struggling with, subtraction, one way you can help is exploring the concept of subtraction as both difference and take away.

Yesterday, How to Help Your Child Learn Subtraction, Part One covered subtraction as takeaway, difference, and counting back from (also known as counting down to). Today, we’ll discuss subtraction as regrouping, borrowing or carrying over as well as offer tactics you can use to help your child learn this core arithmetic concept.

Is your learner struggling with subtraction? One of the reasons subtraction is so challenging is that there are many different ways to think about it. If kids don’t have a strong grounding in number sense and subtraction, advanced math topics and problem solving skills more difficult.

We’re never too old (or young!) for fun math games! We’ve pulled together two games (including those we can play on browsers) to share with you, basing our recommendations on the following: (1) Challenging experiences that facilitate learning; (2) Players can interact with math directly; (3) Game design is grounded in research.

The way we do math has changed, driven by our changing needs as a society. Math is now taught based on a need to understand the number system and its meaning.