Math in Everyday Life

Need another way to try to get your kid interested in math. Here's a great one. Even if they love math, this may be just the right thing. And the best part about it from your kids' perspective, is it involves watching a hit television series. Go figure. T.V and Math. What a combination, right?

The hit CBS television show "NUMB3RS" is going to continue the award-winning national math education program, "We All Use Math Every Day," for season three of the hit television series premiering on September 22nd.

So first of all, they'll get to watch a cool t.v. show that revolves around math and solving crime. And then the educational program highlights how math is relevant in students' daily lives and encourages them to study and learn more about the subject.

The "We All Use Math Every Day" program provides free classroom activities online. They help students explore the math derived from the concepts highlighted in each show. New activities are posted weekly to correspond with each week's show episode. Sounds pretty cool, huh.
Check out some cool show-based activities here.

Kind of like the popular t.v. series "CSI" did for kids being interested in the field forensics, hopefully "NUMB3ERS" will have some students looking at math in more of a positive (cool) light. The main theme of the show is bringing together police work and mathematics in solving crime. An FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes.

The acivities are geared towards your older kids, probably 8th grade and up, depending on what they kind of math they're taking. Have some fun with it.