1st - 3rd Grade Math Activities

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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

This little chick is so cute that your child will want to make a whole flock to call her own.

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

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

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

How powerful is the reaction between baking soda and vinegar? Find out here!

Practice multiplication facts by playing baseball in this fun, third grade math board game.

Here's a math activity that uses coin riddles to help your third-grader improve his coin-counting and logical thinking skills.

With this fun craft activity, your child can design and "make" his own money, for use as currency and math practice at home.

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

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.

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.

The goal of this golf science fair science fair project is to determine whether the temperature of a golf ball affects its elasticity and its rebound.

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

Nothing chases the blues away like a trip to the boardwalk. Bring the fun home with this do-it-yourself version that sneaks in some math practice.

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

Playing a tactile game with multiplication will help your child get a better grasp of basic math concepts and transform your kid into a master multiplier.

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

Turn learning fractions into a pizza party in this fun second grade math game.

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

Make your own marshmallows and mix up some very interesting third grade chemistry lessons while you're at it!

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.