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In this short video, reporter Sharon Lurye discusses how parents can help their young children gather basic math skills.

Math is all around us. You don’t have to buy anything expensive or plan an activity in advance. It’s all about taking advantage of those spontaneous opportunities to ask your kids questions and help them learn.

The Associated Press’ Sharon Lurye, Stephen Smith and Akira Kumamoto produced this video as part of The Math Problem, a series from The Education Reporting Collaborative exploring the math crisis facing schools and highlighting progress. The collaborative is a coalition of eight newsrooms whose members include AL.com, The Associated Press, The Christian Science Monitor, The Dallas Morning News, The Hechinger Report, Idaho Education News, The Post and Courier in South Carolina and The Seattle Times.

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How can you help your kids get better at math?

by Sharon Lurye and Stephen Smith, The Hechinger Report
September 19, 2023

<h1>How can you help your kids get better at math?</h1> <p class="byline">by Sharon Lurye and Stephen Smith, The Hechinger Report <br />September 19, 2023</p> <p class="has-drop-cap">In this short video, reporter Sharon Lurye discusses how parents can help their young children gather basic math skills.</p> <p>Math is all around us. You don’t have to buy anything expensive or plan an activity in advance. It’s all about taking advantage of those spontaneous opportunities to ask your kids questions and help them learn.</p> <div class="wp-block-group alignright is-style-border"> <h4 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://hechingerreport.org/the-math-problem/">The Math Problem</a>&nbsp;</h4> <p class="has-small-font-size"><em>Sluggish growth in math scores for U.S. students began long before the pandemic, but the problem has snowballed into an education crisis. This back-to-school-season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. The three-year-old Reporting Collaborative includes AL.com, The Associated Press, The Christian Science Monitor, The Dallas Morning News, The Hechinger Report, Idaho Education News, The Post and Courier in South Carolina, and The Seattle Times.</em></p> <div class="wp-block-buttons"> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link has-primary-background-color has-background wp-element-button" href="https://hechingerreport.org/the-math-problem/">READ THE SERIES</a></div> </p></div> </p></div> <figure class="wp-block-video"><video controls src="https://hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20230913_mathlessons_9x16.mp4"></video></figure> <p><em>The Associated Press’ Sharon Lurye, Stephen Smith and </em>Akira Kumamoto<em> produced this video as part of The Math Problem, a series from The Education Reporting Collaborative exploring the&nbsp;</em><a href="https://apnews.com/article/math-help-back-to-school-beec7b4c195f2b71edfd75fadd40a5b0"><em>math crisis</em></a><em>&nbsp;facing schools and&nbsp;</em><a href="https://apnews.com/article/college-math-test-help-6cca6a5e873d5aeb5e75b4f94125d48c"><em>highlighting progress</em></a><em>. The collaborative is a coalition of eight newsrooms whose members include AL.com, The Associated Press, The Christian Science Monitor, The Dallas Morning News, The Hechinger Report, Idaho Education News, The Post and Courier in South Carolina and The Seattle Times.</em></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://hechingerreport.org/how-can-you-help-your-kids-get-better-at-math/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://hechingerreport.org&quot;&gt;The Hechinger Report&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-favicon.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://hechingerreport.org/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=95896&amp;amp;ga4=G-03KPHXDF3H&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://hechingerreport.org/how-can-you-help-your-kids-get-better-at-math/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hechingerreport.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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