Math Activities : Page 15

The purpose of this science fair project is to investigate which food wrapping works best to keep refrigerated and non-refrigerated foods from spoiling.

This copying game is like a hopped up version of Simon Says, but it lets kids use their bodies to practice patterning, a key skill in early math.

This flannel board will give your child hands-on practice with math, but in a fun format, full of ladybugs.

Check out this fun science project idea to explore different types of starches and learn how removing starch affects the quality and taste of food.

Try this fun addition game with your second grader! Arrange playing cards to find the largest possible sums.

Here's a Halloween, math activity: have your preschooler or pre-kindergartener carve shapes into a Jack-O-Lantern face and boost her shape recognition skills.

This activity is a fun way to "go fishing" with your preschooler, while learning about the concepts of freezing and melting.

Your child will learn more about coins and their denominations as he's asked to identify similar coins.

This footwear-focused activity introduces fractions as part of a set and it's the perfect way to generate excitement about fraction concepts.

This decimal game is a great way to help your child get familiar with how decimal values work.

Science fair project that tests how heat affects the chemical reaction between a seltzer tablet and a glass of water.

This science fair project idea determines effective strategies to help students stay awake and attentive.

Increase your child's confidence in interpreting bar graphs and throw a little candy into the mix to sweeten the learning process.

Is horse manure a possible energy source in a crisis? Use calorimetry to find out how much energy horse manure can produce in this science fair project.

Kids will build a turtle habitat in order to observe the climate preferences of this cold-blooded reptile.

Make this delicious warm apple bread for Hanukkah.

Science fair project that tests the correlation between outdoor temperature or weather conditions and the number of visible stars at night.

Give your second grader a chance to get his feet wet with measurement before he moves onto the more complicated stuff by trying this activity with him at home.

Toss playing cards into boxes while you practice addition and multiplication with decimals in this fun, fifth grade math game.

Determine whether the relationship between a personâs armspan and height are genetic.

Determine which environment keeps an ice cube frozen for the longest duration. Inspect and record your observations when cubes melt.

Check out this fun science fair project idea for middle school students to learn about the effects of temperature on the density of a gas such as air.

Determine whether magic salt is more effective at melting snow than regular salt. Pour one ounce of salt over the ice cubes, compare the melt downs.

Make the abstract nature of time and money easier for your kid to understand with some fun ideas that focus on these concepts.

Science fair project that studies how perfumes are made in order to determine how we can capture a scent.

This activity is a great way to practice sorting, counting, matching, and other early math skills--- on the fly.

Here's a fun, geometric puzzle activity that will capture your child's interest and strengthen his number awareness and graphing skills.

Create a graph based on the interests of family member's to see who has what in common. Your child will practice her math skills and get to know the family!

Sharing can be a challenge, and division doubly so! Practice halving numbers in this competitive card game.

Your child can create his own texture tree, experimenting with design during the process. The result will be a beautiful addition to your holiday decorations