PBS Kids: Boost Math Skills at Home with Play & Learn App

PBS Parents Play & Learn App 
PBS KIDS’ first app designed specifically for parents, PBS Parents Play & Learn provides more than a dozen math and literacy-based games parents can play with their kids, each themed around a familiar location, including the grocery store or restaurant or, at home, in the bath or in the kitchen. The bilingual (English/Spanish) app helps build math skills, including counting, measurement and estimation, and literacy skills, such as letter identification, rhyming and vocabulary. The app is especially useful for introducing the youngest of learners to reading and math concepts with games and activities that are leveled by stages: baby, toddler and preschool.

The PBS Parents Play & Learn App is available for free from the App Store on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and for Android phones and tablets, including both the Kindle Fire HD 7 and Kindle Fire HD 8.9.

 Did You Know?

• According to the PBS KIDS survey, parents place less emphasis on math, since they view other skills as “the greatest predictor of achievement later in life,” ranking reading and literacy (26%) and the ability to pay attention and work hard (47%) as most indicative versus math (14%). 
• 60% percent of parents of 5-8-year-olds practice math daily with their kids, whereas only half of parents of 2-4-year-olds do; Parents are also more likely to practice reading skills with their kids than they are to practice math.
   
• Nearly 30% of parents reported anxiety about teaching their child math. Anxiety is even greater for moms (33%) and parents with an education level of high school or less (32%).
• 25% of parents find it hard to incorporate math into conversations and activities at home
• 84% of parents believe it is important to support their child’s learning with at home activities.
• 24% of parents believe the new math they teach at school is different from what they learned, so it's difficult for them to help their

 The above Stats came from the "It All Adds Up" Research Survey.

**Note this information was provided to me so I could share with my readers on behalf of PBS Kids**