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If your 2nd grade child asks for time often, encourage him to read time on his own by talking about time throughout the day.

Want to make math a little more exciting? This single-player game is designed to help your child practice combining cards to create sums of 14.

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

Create equations in this strategic math card game. Your second or third grader can practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in a new way!

Whatever is stacked in your cupboard can be used to help your child learn how to compare fractions and decimals. A great hands-on math lesson!

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

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

Creating number patterns with pencil and paper can be dull, but creating hopscotch pattern can bring exciting math learning!

Finding the greatest number is great math practice! This strategic card game will help reinforce the concept of number value as well as addition facts.

Try a new approach to working with variables and equations by playing this tic-tac-toe game with your math student.

Probability can be a tough concept to master. Try playing this fun card game in order to help your third grader understand it a little better.

Play this "subtraction war" card game with your second grader and watch his math facts mastery leap forward!

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

Use this fun math board game to improve your first grader's confidence with addition facts.

This competitive inequalities card game is a great way to help your child understand the connection between numerals and the values they represent.

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.

Think you need a special dehydrator to make your own fruit leather? You can actually make a delicious version of this popular kid's snack in your own oven.

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!

Help your child "step up" to second grade math fact challenges with a fun addition and subtraction game in your very own kitchen.

Here's a fun, geometric puzzle activity that will capture your child's interest and strengthen his number awareness and graphing skills.

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

This interdisciplinary card game will have your third grader working on math facts as he travels through the solar system!

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

In this activity, your child will create a red envelope that can be filled with money to spread good will and ward off evil spirits in the New Year.

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.

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!

This activity will further your child's ability to interpret graphs and apply math skills in a real-world situation.

Use the holiday gift giving season as an excuse to give your fourth grader a valuable lesson in making and keeping a budget!

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