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This measurement activity uses feet to compare objects, but not the ones found on rulers and measuring sticks...the feet on your child's own body!

Here's a hands-on activity that first grade use to help kids get a feel for equations. It uses popsicle sticks to practice addition and subtraction!

Get your child excited about measuring with this fun and easy household measurements activity.

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

In this activity, have your second grader practice measuring by finding the height, weight, and length of their most treasured toy!

Have your child construct his own Christmas tree from construction paper while cutting, overlapping and measuring to create an adorable modern design.

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.

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.

First graders are learning basic addition and subtraction math facts. Practice in the sandbox with this fun outdoor math activity!

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

Homemade Halloween treats make great party foods for an All Hallow's Eve get together. These four homemade Halloween treats are scary-good.

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

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

Make fractions easy for your child to understand by incorporating their discussion and practice into meals and cooking that you two participate in together.

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

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!

Here is an activity that your kids can make for Mother's Day, a garden pot filled with edible "flowers".

Pfeffernusse are spicy and sweet Christmas cookies from Germany. Make a batch of traditional pfeffernusse this holiday season.

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

This fun geometry game requires players to use measurement, find perimeter, and draw polygons. It's great for a fourth grade math student!

Try this recipe with your child and explore Ethiopia through one of its dietary staples: injera, or flat bread!

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.

This science fair project idea teaches how the gases and pollution in the air affect the earth's atmosphere temperature.

If you love the idea of handing out holiday tins of homemade cookies but you're not a baker, chocolate-covered apples are the perfect solution.

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.

This pumpkin dessert recipe tastes like pie but looks like a no-bake cookie.

Invite your second grader to help you measure and mix these fresh, cool concoctions!

This fall, bake some festive caramel apple cupcakes with your second grader and help her build her math skills while you're at it!

How many steps long is the hallway? Kids put their graph-making skills to work as they make a step map of their own house.