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What is the coldest temperature possible? In this cool experiment, you'll calculate absolute zero by extrapolating data on the temperature and volume of gas.

Is your child struggling to remember the rules of place value? Here's a fun series of hands-on activities to help your child put the value in place value!

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Try this fun math card game and practice place value with your second grader! Decide which number is bigger in order to earn points!

Here's a super fun game to get in some place value practice with your child!

Your child will be cheering for 8s and 9s as she tries to create a larger number than her competitors. Whoever ends up with the largest number wins!

Ordinary drinking straws are fun for drinking juice and even for spitballs when you're not looking, but also fabulous for learning first grade math.

Draw some educational value out of a summer stocked full of adventures!

Introduce decimals and place value with this fun math card game for fourth grade students.

Here's an Easter themed math game to reinforce your child's logical reasoning and place value skills.

Help cement the concept of place value with this simple activity that involves creating a set of dials made from Styrofoam cups.

Construct calorimeter and determine the caloric value of a sample of foods by change in temperature for each of the foods.

This activity will not only teach your child important math concepts regarding money and value, but also how to hunt for bargains!

Okay, identifying place value isn't as fun as eating ice cream, but with a few index cards and a competitive spirit, it can be disguised a game!

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.

Learn about coins and their value by making an animal piggy bank. Here's how to make a lion, pig, or sheep bank!

Based on the popular "I Spy" game, this activity lets your kid practice important skills like number identification and place value.

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

This competitive inequalities card game is a great way to help your child understand the connection between numerals and the values they represent.

Here's a simple math activity that has your child using her basic addition facts to solve a secret code.

This activity will further your child's ability to interpret graphs and apply math skills in a real-world situation.

This science fair project idea quantifies exactly how accurate the cricket thermometer is.

This fun geometry game requires players to use measurement, find perimeter, and draw polygons. It's great for a fourth grade math student!

Have some fun with your first or second grader, looking for creative ways that 100 cents can make $1.00!

Challenge your 1st grader to skip count with this sequence game. Help him find missing numbers by figuring out the pattern and building on math skills!

Exponents can be tricky to learn. Fortunately this game provides plenty of multiplication practice for your math student!

Help your child get comfortable with the concept of estimation, which will come in handy during everything from standardized tests to future shopping trips!

This science fair project idea examines the actual cost of three household light bulbs by testing energy consumption.

Figuring out fractions can be a challenge! But with this game your child will become more comfortable converting fractions after only a little practice.

This science fair project idea investigates food preference of birds.