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If your 2nd grade child asks for time often, encourage him to read time on his own by talking about time throughout the day.

Help your child identify numbers with this fun preschool math art activity! Explore different textures and colors as he learns numbers.

In this fun snack-time activity, kids boost counting, sorting, and color recognition skills as they make a delicious and nutritious snack.

Want to make math a little more exciting? This single-player game is designed to help your child practice combining cards to create sums of 14.

Shamrock Stamps are a great way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Simple and symmetrical, this symbol of Irish culture is the perfect shape for prints.

Give your child some practice with even numbers, while creating a cute Christmas keepsake. Create this skip counting book.

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

Look for a correlation between temperature and the intensity of cricket chirping. Measure ambient temperature and sound intensity in decibels.

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

This Halloween, encourage your child to create a super sweet mosaic. They'll make a candy corn pumpkin and then decide if they want to eat it, or keep it!

Create equations in this strategic math card game. Your second or third grader can practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in a new way!

Celebrate Chinese New Year by teaching your child how to use chopsticks! She'll build her math and fine motor skills as she does this activity.

Whatever is stacked in your cupboard can be used to help your child learn how to compare fractions and decimals. A great hands-on math lesson!

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

The purpose of this science project is to investigate which will grow larger plants: compost, soil and Miracle - Gro, a mixture of both.

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

Make fractions easy for your child to understand by incorporating their discussion and practice into meals and cooking that you two participate in together.

Creating number patterns with pencil and paper can be dull, but creating hopscotch pattern can bring exciting math learning!

Finding the greatest number is great math practice! This strategic card game will help reinforce the concept of number value as well as addition facts.

Try a new approach to working with variables and equations by playing this tic-tac-toe game with your math student.

There's nothing like a treasure hunt to get kids excited about math and sorting.

Build your child's vocabulary by exploring and discussing spatial relationships during everyday activities such as building, rearranging, and ordering.

Help your preschooler grasp the concept of ordering and sequence while teaching him valuable vocabulary with simple activities around the house.

Probability can be a tough concept to master. Try playing this fun card game in order to help your third grader understand it a little better.

Play this "subtraction war" card game with your second grader and watch his math facts mastery leap forward!

Challenge your third-grader to sharpen her new math skills--and maybe do the planet a favor, too.

In this activity your little one will throw a beanbag at a numbered target to help improve her number recognition skills.

Here's a tasty way to give your child some counting practice.

Check out this interactive number line. It's a great way to strengthen your preschoolers understanding of basic numbers and the numerals that represent them.

Do your laundry and your science project simultaneously! This science fair project investigates whether the color of a garment affects the time needed to dry.