A Simple Equation to Help Kids Love Math

Life Kit: Parenting

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Kids & Family

4.6 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Math anxiety is real for kids and adults. But parents can help. The solution goes beyond equations and textbooks.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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0:12.1	Learn more at RWJF.org.
0:15.5	This is NPR's Life Kit.
0:17.3	Ah, greetings class and welcome to counting school, where what you learn really counts.
0:23.7	So we want to start today with a little story about an old friend from Sesame Street.
0:27.5	I am your teacher to count.
0:29.1	Do you know why they call me the count?
0:31.5	Because I love to count things.
0:34.0	I love the count.
0:35.4	And Ken Scarborough knows him really well because he's headwriter at Sesame Street.
0:40.8	His whole identity is wrapped up in being a count and being a guy who knows his numbers really well.
0:46.3	Now, of course, for the count that we all know and love, numbers give him nothing but joy.
0:51.9	Nine.
0:52.8	Nine sandwiches all together.
0:56.4	But on this one day, it's different.
1:00.1	The count makes a mistake, and he sort of cannot believe it.
1:03.4	He's crushed.
1:04.4	What number did he forget?
1:06.3	Well, somebody interrupted him.
1:08.5	It's really not his fault.
1:09.7	He was counting sandwiches.
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