1st - 3rd Grade Math Activities

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

Most people assume that cold water freezes more quickly, but could that be false? Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? Let's find out!

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

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

This heart print makes the perfect simple and sweet gift for Valentine's Day!

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

Teach your third grader about the concepts money and purchasing with this "Mock Card Shop" activity.

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.

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.

Practice multiplication facts and geography at the same time in this fun third grade math card game.

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

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

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!

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

This heart paper chain is the perfect way to celebrate Valentine's Day. Include some decorations in a simple AB pattern and work on pattern recognition.

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?

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.

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

Make the abstract nature of time and money easier for your kid to understand with some fun ideas that focus on these concepts.

Here is a fun middle school science project on factors affecting solubility. Learn how dissolved solids can "crash out" to form crystals when conditions change.

Why does honey crystallize? This science fair project project answers this question and identifies the variable that makes this sweet solute crystallize faster.

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?

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

Math Facts Game: A mix of musical chairs and Twister meets math. Nipping multiplication problems in the bud was never this much fun!

Have your student draft a blueprint for a haunted house, and trick (or treat) them into learning about geometry in the process.

Get estimating with this spooky activity that asks your young mathematician to rely on their problem-solving skills to figure out how many items they believe are in spooky Halloween jars!

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.

Get back into school with this exciting architecture exploration! In this craft activity your child will research, draw, and build his own school.

This kinesthetic game will help your child practice rounding and get the adrenaline rushing!