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

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

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

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

Play a game of "restaurant" to reinforce real-world applications of counting and using money.

Practice measurement using centimeters in this fun math race designed for your second grade student!

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

Here's a simple math activity that has your child using her basic addition facts to solve a secret code.

This cool science fair project teaches kids about temperature, density and buoyancy using balloons that float with normal air. No helium required!

Create addition problems using critical thinking skills in this fun second grade math card game.

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

Does your second grader want to learn a magic trick? Here is a simple trick using only 3 dice and a little bit of addition and subtraction.

Learn about borrowing in subtraction using a deck of cards and a die! Your first grader will have fun playing this math game.

Play a math logic and critical thinking game using a deck of cards. Use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in this fun activity.

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.

Engage your third-grader in this version of the classic game and she will get lots of practice using mental math to solve addition and subtraction problems.

Playing the Number Sentence Game with your child gives him the opportunity to practice ordering and comparing numbers using symbols.

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.

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.

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.

How does frost form? How fast does it form? Do this simple science project using a plastic glass, rock salt and some water to learn about deposition.

Defend your cards in this multiplication math game! Your kid will enjoy using strategy to build equations and win points in this activity.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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