In kindergarten, your child spent lots of time counting things one by one. But in first grade, he'll need to be able to count in groups, especially by fives.

Ordinary drinking straws are fun for drinking juice and even for spitballs when you're not looking, but also fabulous for learning first grade math.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Tackle both boredom and mathematics with this inventive arts and craft project!

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

Give your child some practice with even numbers, while creating a cute Christmas keepsake. Create this skip counting book.

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

Expand on your childâs time-telling skills by helping him learn how an analog clock and a digital clock correspond.

Your child can brush up on her math skills by charting the length of time that each candle on the menorah takes to burn.

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

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

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

Big bags hold a lot of candy, but they're hard to tote around. Have your kid construct a candy corn candy holder perfect for carrying a few lightweight treats.

Thanksgiving is a time to be with loved ones. It's also a time to chow down! Need help in the kitchen? There's no better helper than an avid fourth grader.

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.

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 homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

Show your kindergartener how to count to 100 by tens, and he'll get an adorable cheerio necklace in the process!

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

Get a leg up on counting concepts with this project where art and math collide.

Add these fun chocolate Groundhog Day cupcakes to your holiday desert recipe repertoire! They're fun to make with your kids and a delicious winter snack.

In this fun science fair project, make two different scale models of our solar system using Astronomical Units and planets' relative size!

Learn about coins and their value by making an animal piggy bank. Here's how to make a lion, pig, or sheep bank!