1st and 2nd Grade Math Activities

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

This activity is based on the popular card game, Slapjack. It's rip-roaring fun, and it reinforces the concepts of odd and even.

Your child will love making this adorable clover clock that will help him learn how to tell time.

Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.

In this hands-on craft project, kids will make an analog clock of their own, and then use it to learn how to tell time.

Why doesn't the ocean freeze? Students answer this question by simulating the chemical composition and temperature of arctic waters in their own home.

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

Review fractions with your budding mathematician when you play this fun, educational math board game.

This activity will put those Halloween treats to good use by using candy corn to help your child with her subtraction skills.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

Kids will learn how to make a thermometer to to explore liquid density in this great science fair project. Which liquids are affected by temperature the most?

Celebrate 100 fantastic days of school by creating a school-themed collage with 100 pieces in this unique arts and crafts activity.

Help your child improve his coin counting skills in these two math games that have him race to reach $1.00.

This project determines whether Styrofoam, paper, or plastic cups are best for preventing ice from melting.

Learn how to make a paper snowflake with these simple instructions. Help your child learn how to make a paper snowflake with only paper and scissors.

For most second graders, a good secret code is just about irresistible. Here's one that builds math facts while you're at it!

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.

Run, jump, and skip your way to physical fitness as your exercise with dice! It's a perfect party or family game.

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Make subtraction practice more fun with this outdoor review game that's great for beginning math learners and more advanced!

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

Thanksgiving placemats are a great craft for your kid, and a beautiful addition to the dinner table. Make Thanksgiving placemats with your kid for the holiday.

This caterpillar math game gets your child to work on addition and subtraction. Challenge your child's math prowess with this fast-paced caterpillar math game.

Using just an egg carton and some beans or pennies, you can play this game with your first grader and see real gains in core math skills.

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

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

Simple and straightforward, this money math game helps kids practice counting, adding change, and working with decimals.

Make counting coins make "cents" to your second grader while giving her the chance to practice her math skills by playing this fun game with her.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.