Engage Your 4th Grade Traveler!
In fourth grade, kids are learning important new skills in geography, social studies and math--and your family trip can be a fabulous time to reinforce them.
Play Math Flash Bingo
Liven up the old flash card routine and make math fun for your second grader by playing a game of Math Flash Bingo!
Practice Ratios with Wastepaper Basketball
If your child is in the decimal doldrums, or suffering from acute fear of fractions, take heart. They're probably just struggling to understand how numbers on a page can relate to the "real world" outside the classroom.
Name the Operation
Problem solving is an essential math skill, and all you need is a deck of cards to practice it. In this game, you'll flip over cards to determine what numbers you can use. Then, take turns formulating equations and figuring out others players' equations.
Play Placemat Place Value
With a little help from grownups, almost anything can equal math discovery for kids. Take ordinary drinking straws, for example: fun for drinking juice and even for spitballs when you're not looking, but also fabulous for learning math.
Bake Pumpkin Cookies
Anytime is the perfect time to whip up a batch of fluffy pumpkin cookies. Your child will hone her culinary skills while creating a savory cookie that packs a healthy punch!
Group It!: A Skip Counting Activity
Counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s may not sound like much fun. But using "skip counting" with real objects you find or make at home is a different story...it can be hours of entertainment. Here's a hands-on activity to touch and move real stuff while building abstract reasoning...paint, shoes, and coins ...
Hanukkah Menorah Shape Collage
Make a menorah shape collage this Hanukkah with your preschooler! You'll help him build his basic math skills and create a festive decoration along the way!
Creating Line Symmetry
Test out your knowledge of symmetry in this fun geometrical activity! You will need to work together to create images that have symmetry, or sides that reflect one another. Take turns leading and following as you work towards a better understanding of what makes something symmetrical.
Play an Arithmetic Game: Math Racers!
Race to the finish line using math to help you along! This fun outdoor game will help your child develop her addition and subtraction skills and teach her basic arithmetic while keeping her active.
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