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Every guide in the Math Prizes resource hub, newest first. Page 1 of 16.
How Many Points Should a Kid's Reward Cost? A Worksheet
A transparent worksheet that turns one child's typical weekly ticket earnings into fair daily, weekly, monthly, and long-term reward prices.
Echidna Family Guide: From Egg to Independent Puggle
A sourced family guide to the four living echidna species and the unusual route from one tiny egg to an independent puggle.
Can Google Family Link Reward Learning? What It Can Do
Family Link can enforce screen limits and let a parent add bonus time, but the learning-to-time exchange remains a manual family rule.
A 30-Minute Weekly Family Reset That Fits Real Life
A 30-minute weekly reset that turns school events, meals, practice, screens, and rewards into a plan the family can actually see.
Parental Limits or Controlling Parenting? A Clear Test
A behavior-based test for separating ordinary family limits from patterns that leave a child with too little voice or age-appropriate responsibility.
12 Parent Questions About Screens, Rewards, and Learning Apps
Twelve short, sourced answers to the questions parents ask most about screens, rewards, privacy, and learning apps.
What Parent Prize Portal Does and Who It Is For
Parent Prize Portal is a parent dashboard for a family ticket economy. Kids earn tickets in learning apps, and parents decide what the tickets buy.
Best Learning Reward Apps for Kids: Parent-Controlled Options
Compare parent-controlled learning reward options by what earns points, who chooses rewards, reporting, device support, privacy claims, price, and limitations.
Getting Started With Parent Prize Portal: A Worked Example
To start, create a free parent account, pair the child's device with the six-digit code, and add one prize with a ticket price. Then follow the numbers.
Screen time that is actually productive: how to tell a learning app from a slot machine
Not all screen time is equal. I build these apps for a living. Here are the design tricks that tell you whether an app is teaching your kid or just farming their attention.
Multiplication facts that finally stick (without flashcard misery)
Flashcard marathons make kids hate multiplication and still do not work. Here is the order I teach the facts in, and the ten minute routine that makes them stick.
How to help a child who is struggling with math
When a kid decides they are bad at math, the fix is almost never more of the same worksheet. Here is the triage I use in the classroom, step by step.
Estimation: Teaching Kids to Know When an Answer Is Ridiculous
A kid wrote that 4 times 6 was 240 and didn't blink. Estimation is the skill that would've caught it. Here's how I taught kids to smell a wrong answer.
Arrays and Area Models: The Picture That Ties Multiplication to Real Math
Kids who memorize times tables still freeze on word problems. Arrays and area models give multiplication a picture, and the picture is what makes it stick.
Introducing Coordinate Grids: Plotting Points Without the Panic
Try a map, an across-then-up prompt and paper-grid games to practise reading ordered pairs and checking where each point belongs.
Multiplying by 10, 100, and 1000: The Pattern Behind the Zeros
Just add a zero works until your kid hits decimals, then it falls apart. Here is what is really happening when you multiply by ten.
Converting Fractions, Decimals, and Percents: One Idea, Three Costumes
Kids treat fractions, decimals, and percents as three separate subjects. They are one number in three outfits, and that changes everything.
Understanding Remainders: What Long Division Leftovers Actually Mean
Most kids can write R3 at the end of a division problem without any idea what it means. Here is how to make the leftover make sense.
Fractions on a Number Line: The Model That Ties It All Together
Pizza slices work until a kid has to compare two-thirds and three-fourths. A number line is the one model that carries fractions all the way up.
Order of Operations at Home: More Than Just PEMDAS
PEMDAS is a memory trick that quietly teaches two wrong ideas. Here is how to teach order of operations so it actually makes sense to your kid.
What Is Algebra Readiness in Elementary School, Really?
Algebra readiness has almost nothing to do with algebra. Here are the elementary skills that actually predict who thrives in eighth grade, and how to build them.
Patterns and the Start of Algebraic Thinking in Elementary Math
Patterns look like kindergarten fluff, but they are where algebra actually begins. Here is how to grow that thinking at home with beads, tiles, and questions.
Reading Graphs and Charts: The Data Skill Schools Rush Through
Why chart-reading gets crammed into a single week each year, and how to build real data sense at home using cereal boxes, weather, and a jar of coins.
When Practice Should Stop: Reading the Signs Your Kid Is Done for Today
Ten good minutes beats thirty grinding ones. Here are the real signs your kid is done for the day, and why pushing past them costs you tomorrow.