No one can deny the growing importance of mathematics in today's, and tomorrow's, society. The good news is that numerous efforts are underway to help close the nation's math-gap. Schools and teachers have brought a new focus and intensified efforts to mathematics instruction. But as teachers will tell you, they can't do it alone, and the more parents become involved in their children's education, the greater the chances for effective learning.
Challenges is based.
The problems are not only challenging, but fun. That, too, is by design. Higher-level mathematics can be as daunting to parents as it is to students, particularly for those parents who may have struggled with mathematics when they were young. Which is not to say that the strength of the problems has been diluted. Challenges offer families two additional benefits.