{"id":53,"date":"2008-04-08T09:34:05","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T16:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/2008\/04\/08\/cyberchase-math-mystery\/"},"modified":"2008-04-08T09:34:05","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T16:34:05","slug":"cyberchase-math-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/2008\/cyberchase-math-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyberchase Math Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cyberchase gang takes young viewers out to play with their new math and sports initiative, premiering this month on PBS KIDS GO!Multi-Faceted Project Features New Episodes, A New Web Game And Outreach Events.\u201cFor Real\u201d Segments Include Appearance By New York Mets Pitcher John MaineWhen\u2019s the last time you looked at a baseball diamond\u2026and saw a geometric pattern? Watched a replay\u2026and realized how that play was diagrammed? Or checked out the score…and considered the math inherent to a game? Sports are rich with opportunities to use numbers, spot patterns, and develop strategies, and kids love sports. With this exciting connection in mind, CYBERCHASE\u2019s new initiative challenges kids to get active with math!CYBERCHASE\u2019s Math & Sports, a multi-faceted project that will engage children on air, online and on the playing field in communities nationwide, kicks off April 7 on PBS KIDS GO!sm (check local listings). The Math & Sports initiative features five shows, including four new episodes, as well as an interactive Web game that gives kids the chance to challenge Hacker in the \u201cCyberOlympics\u201d at pbskidsgo.org\/cyberchase<\/a>.\u201cSports are a perfect way to show kids that math is a useful tool to develop winning strategies,\u201d says Sandra Sheppard, Thirteen\/WNET New York\u2019s director of Children\u2019s and Educational Programming. \u201cThis new initiative aims to show kids how athletics incorporate math in ways they might not realize, while also reinforcing the power of teamwork in problem-solving. These concepts are as applicable on the field as they are in the classroom.\u201dCYBERCHASE For Real, a live-action segment found at the end of each animated episode, will include Harry learning from the New York Mets\u2019 pitcher John Maine how he uses math in every game. Harry will also try to figure out the best order for him and his teammates to swim in a relay race to increase their chances of winning.\u201cSports are very popular with kids and rich in opportunities to engage them in math concepts such as problem solving, geometry and data-analysis,\u201d says executive producer Frances Nankin. \u201cOne of our goals with Math & Sports is to empower kids who might otherwise want to sit on the sidelines, and encourage them to get out there and participate, just to try out the concepts. They\u2019re fun and easy to grasp, and guaranteed to make everyone want to play!\u201dTo engage children while reinforcing and extending the messages of the broadcasts, CYBERCHASE Math & Sports is supported with free educational materials, including a digital activity toolkit that combines a DVD containing the five episodes and short segments and a CD-Rom containing hands-on activities. A CYBERCHASE comic book and poster are also available. These resources will be available to educational and community partners through the series\u2019 companion Web site and Outreach Portal.Parents and teachers can find tips for ways to combine math with sports, plus activities at pbskidsgo.org\/cyberchase<\/a>. For Math & Sports, an all-new interactive game will encourage players to try out math skills from the episodes and experience the results on a virtual playing field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Cyberchase gang takes young viewers out to play with their new math and sports initiative, premiering this month on PBS KIDS GO!Multi-Faceted Project Features New Episodes, A New Web Game And Outreach Events.\u201cFor Real\u201d Segments Include Appearance By New York Mets Pitcher John MaineWhen\u2019s the last time you looked at a baseball diamond\u2026and saw […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news","category-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paS5I2-R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}