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Hone observational skills and introduce the basics of data interpretation with this data gathering activity all about the different colors people wear.

Put your kid in charge of her own survey! She'll poll her relatives and friends, collect information, and then create a colorful chart to display her findings.

Graph are a great way to organize information. Your child will get to practice graphing by creating a bar graph and a pictorial graph of her friend's names.

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

Liven up a lesson about graphing by helping your third grader compile a bar graph from his classmates' birthday data.

Make an edible bracelet from Froot Loops and a shoelace! This Block Institute art activity will engage your special needs or mainstream child at snacktime.

Does your kid have a stash of sweets left over from Halloween? Turn that pile of candy into a learning opportunity with this sorting and categorizing activity.

Make a fun refrigerator graph with your first grader in order to help her develop those crucial graphing skills, while engaging with the whole family.

When you're studying the Mayflower, numbers can be an important part of the history...and a great chance to practice elementary math!

For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen math skills using high and low temperature data, and become a master temperature tracker!

You don't need to spend big bucks to buy a pre-boxed version of a matching game at the store. You can make your own easily. Here's how:

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

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

Kindergarten algebra is a lot different than high school. In kindergarten math, algebra means grouping like things, or noticing what doesn't belong in a set.

Want to ensure that your child's math knowledge stays sharp? This mean, median, and mode game is the perfect way to reinforce these essential math concepts.

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

Have fun with the kids by "shaping up" your standard chocolate chip cookie recipe, and teach kids about sorting and shapes while you're at it.

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

Give your smart second grader a rich challenge with this activity that combines graphing practice with money!

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

With this fun activity, you can help your preschooler make an cute shopping notepad to keep and use or give away as a gift. Here's how:

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

This fun math card game is a great opportunity to discuss probability with your third grader.

This do-it-anywhere guessing game helps reinforce number concepts. And it's a blast to play.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Your child can brush up on her math skills by charting the length of time that each candle on the menorah takes to burn.

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

Head out to the driveway, ball in hand, for a bouncing challenge. Then use those results to make a colorful graph that lets your child compare results.