Here's an activity that will get your child's attention with a back-to-school shopping spree. The catch? He'll have to use decimal skills to add, subtract, multiply, and divide his way to a new wardrobe!
Remember that old carnival game where you had to guess how many jellybeans were in a jar? Well, guessing is more than pure fun, it's also a key part of kindergarten math. Here's how to bring it to the breakfast table!
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A Dinner Table Study Game
Here's a quick, engaging and fun game you can play around the dinner table to review several different school subjects.
Algebra All Around: 3 Activities
Algebra is all around, from the data in the news to real life situations such as shopping and sports. Here are three activities you can do at home and around town to bring algebra into your daily lives.
All in the Family Bar Graph
Challenge your third-grader to survey members of your household and then use the data to create bar graphs representing each member's day. The results will probably surprise you - but your child's interest in graphing may be the biggest shock of all!
An Egg-cellent Counting Game
Kids are naturally fascinated by numbers, colors, shapes, sizes, and patterns. And that's good. Because their interest helps them develop key skills such as counting, comparing, sorting, and measuring, which are all important building blocks for math readiness. Here's a tasty way to give your child ...
Bake a Batch of Fractions!
With this activity, you'll be practicing adding and subtracting fractions, but the activity can be modified to refresh multiplication, division, and more.
Balancing Equations: Step it Up!
Want to reinforce new middle school math terms (variables, equations), while helping your child solve simple one and two-step equations? The trick is to make it visual.
Be a House Hunter for Area!
Here's a hands-on activity you can do with your fourth-grader to practice measurement and directly apply the concept of area to the place she knows best - her house!
Be a Prime Number Hunter
Wondering how to help your child get a handle on prime numbers? Why not turn her into a prime number hunter?
Be a Space Explorer with Volume and Area
Every object can be measured with length, width or height, and those measurements can be used to find the volume and area of the object. Have your child observe, measure and record the amount of space objects occupy, and you'll have an inside space explorer on your hands in no time!
Be an Estimation Sensation
Great estimators are made, not born. Here's an activity to make your child an estimation master.
