3rd Grade Math Activities
In third grade, learning gets kicked up a notch, and more complex concepts will land squarely on your child's plate. Want to help, but aren't sure how? From fun activities to learn about place value, to outdoor games that teach parts of speech, we've got the goods to keep your child on track all year long.
Healthy Halloween Breakfast Muffins
Disguising fraction lessons as baking provides your little chef with math practice without him even realizing. Give these yummy pumpkin breakfast muffins a Halloween twist by decorating them with ghostly marshmallows.
Play Anchors Away!
This Thanksgiving, play this fanciful math game inspired by the story of the Mayflower and strengthen your child's math problem-solving skills in the process!
Craft Your Own Abacus!
Countries around the world have been using the abacus throughout history to make arithmetic easier to calculate. Here's an activity that has your child making an abacus, a tool that can make learning arithmetic highly visual and tactile!
Bake and Decorate Flag Cupcakes!
Practice math and measurement with your third grader this Fourth of July by making these festive cupcakes!
Fourth of July Drink Parasols
Make your very own drink umbrellas with a patriotic twist to use at your next Fourth of July party!
Make a Folded Paper Star Garland
Planning a festive Fourth of July? Here's a lovely way to get your child involved, while building on those important math skills as she flexes those artistic muscles!
Master Your Counting Skills With a Mock Card Shop
Teach your third grader about the concepts money exchange and purchasing with this "Mock Card Shop" activity and help him to practice his math skills while he's at it!
Bunny, Rabbit, Jellybean! A Math Game
OK, so bunnies are leaping, baby chicks hatching, and seasonal baskets are overflowing with green plastic grass and foil eggs. Your kid's mind is heavily weighted with dreams of holiday chocolate. But that doesn't mean you can't still have fun with math!
Graph Your Household Energy Use
Challenge your third-grader to sharpen her new math skills--and maybe do the planet a favor, too.
Find the Lost Leprechaun
Guess what: After all these centuries of happy mischief, one lone leprechaun has gotten lost. Help him get back to his friends at the end of the rainbow with this cooperative game that also flexes your third grader's math and social studies skills.
