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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.

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

In this simple math activity, your young learner will compare two types of Valentine's Day candy using a Venn diagram.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Challenge your kindergartener to finding out if a coin toss is really fair by conducting this coin toss experiment.

Okay, engaging in a graphing activity may sound ho-hum, but if you use fun data, it changes the picture entirely.

Practice math and social studies skills with this fun game based on the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

This St. Patrick's day, stretch your third grader's social studies and math skills with this fun, cooperative learning game.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Here's a fun math-oriented arts and crafts activity for your preschool or kindergarten child: create a gumdrop topiary and practice counting along the way.

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.

Gather the neighborhood children together and practice graphing with this backyard tournament!

Delay your child's sugar overload, and develop his critical thinking skills, by doing some "sweet sorting" of his Halloween treasures!

Have a lot of loose buttons lying around the house? Here are four ways to turn those loose buttons into an easy and positive learning experience. Button up!

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

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

Most parents probably wouldn't mind subtracting 8-9 years off their age. Here's a fun third grade subtraction activity that may do just that.

Check out this dice game perfect for teaching your savvy kid the fundamentals of probability.

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.