Math & Science Articles

Kids Academy is proud to announce a brand-new feature within our Talented and Gifted program that brings both teachers and parents a powerful new tool for both assessment and remediation. Tailored for our Mathematical Practice class for Pre-K and Grade K, our new interactive quizzes can revolutionize your virtual classroom or home learning with the feedback needed to close learning gaps in math. 

Kids Academy Talented and Gifted learning activities are curated by a team of certified US educators with years of classroom experience. Kids Academy membership gives you access to over 5,000 learning games, educational videos, quizzes, and more smart worksheets.

Math is a subject that Americans love to hate. On one hand, it is universally accepted that math mastery is important for a child’s success in life and their potential career. On the other, many people think they are quite simply bad at it. With such pressure to succeed and the number of children who struggle with it, it’s easy to see how kids can develop anxiety over completing it at all. If you’re a parent or teacher who works with a child who thinks they’re bad at math, this article is for you. Keep reading to learn more about math anxiety and find strategies to help students succeed. 

Kids Academy is proud to announce that we’ll be attending the National Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC) in Miami, Florida, from January 14-17th.

Kids Academy is teaming up with yet another amazing app to bring high-quality reading materials to the screens of kids across country! We’re happy to announce a new partnership with Rivet, an innovative app that offers free leveled reading books to help children grow their literacy skills using the same technology they already love! 

As a parent or a teacher, you might notice that kids struggle with learning to subtract. Unlike addition, subtraction asks children to do something foreign to them by taking numbers away, and worse yet, borrowing or regrouping. To make matters more confusing, in the past, we taught kids to borrow without telling them why. But now we know that kids must understand the math concept behind the strategies they use. If you’re looking to begin teaching subtraction with regrouping, keep reading to discover why it’s so tricky for kids, the best strategies to use, and games and activities to support learning!

It’s hard to find an adult today who hasn’t learned how to round numbers by using a rhyme or trick. Unfortunately, when kids are taught tricks and steps to take without learning the underlying concept, we shortchange their education and number sense! This article explores the pitfalls of teaching kids to use mental “hacks” and rhyming expressions and offers you the best ways to teach rounding numbers to enhance your child’s knowledge of math and place value!

Kids Academy has joined forces with Clever to offer a simplified way to use our apps for teachers across the country. Together with Clever, teachers can get the most from our apps! Keep reading to learn more about our new partnership, and how it can benefit your classroom!

This article takes a closer look at the brains behind our creation and shares some insight about future features to come. Click here to check out the entire post, and thanks to App of the Day for the awesome coverage! 

The hottest days of the year are almost over, and it might be tough to encourage little learners to sit down for lessons and learning. Why not mix the end of summer with meaningful learning by tackling exciting science projects? This article gives you everything you need to know about what kids must understand about the three states of matter. Then keep reading to find four fabulous activity ideas to transform long idle days into fascinating physical science experiments!