Math Activities and Games
Math activities to help show your child the fun side of learning! From easy math activities to more advanced, we've got you covered! Use the selector on the right to narrow your search by grade.
Explore Circumference with Your Bicycle Wheel
By late elementary school, students are exploring the many ways that geometry translates to real-world situations. Here's a hands-on activity that helps your child understand the concept of "circumference."
Get Sales Tax Savvy
For a fun activity that takes the dull out of decimals, show you child how to gain a better understanding of decimals - as dollar amounts!
It's About (Elapsed) Time!
For kids, estimating how long activities will take, and being able to balance a schedule accordingly, is anything but a snap. By using your child's own activity schedule, you can strengthen his understanding of elapsed time, and get him organized along the way!
Stock Market Math
This activity will further your child's ability to interpret graphs and let her apply math skills in a real-world situation. She'll also get an understanding of how stocks work by reading line graphs.
Make a Temperature Tracker
By developing graphing skills and interpreting data, students are exercising key analytical skills. Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen these skills using high and low temperature data, and become a master temperature tracker!
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.
Fold for Fractions!
If fractions strike fear into your child's homework hour, have not fear. Here's a hands-on way to help your child understand how common fractions can be equivalent.
The Money Sense Quiz
Test your tween's money sense - her making and spending skills - with this quiz. There are no right or wrong answers, only wise and not-so-wise choices about money.
Bulls-eye! A Mathematical Card Game
It's a race to see who can hit the target first by working math problems faster than their opponent.
Play with Pulleys
Get a handle on basic mechanics with this simple household exercise.
