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Help your second grader to a better understanding of how to count and represent money with age old game of tic-tac-toe.

How much does 100 weigh? Play this fun guessing game with your child to commemorate the 100th day of school.

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

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

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

Create a fun hands-on game to practice long division, using magnetic numbers on a fridge.

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.

Most timeline activities are all about history. Make timelines more relevant and personal for your child by focusing on the hours and minutes of his day.

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.

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

Money is a difficult concept to grasp. Help your kid get the hang of it with this pocket change triple Venn diagram activity.

Work on division with remainders in this fun fourth grade math board game.

Help cement the concept of place value with this simple activity that involves creating a set of dials made from Styrofoam cups.

This activity is a great starting point for practicing mental math because it is quick, easy and involves only simple addition facts.

This first grade science activity is great for winter! Your child will grow and observe her own amaryllis bulb, keeping a journal of her scientific findings.

Make math fun for your child by turning it into a game and challenging him to beat the calculator with this cool math race!

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

Is your child struggling to remember the rules of place value? Here's a fun series of hands-on activities to help your child put the value in place value!

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

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.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

Delay your child's sugar overload, and develop his critical thinking skills, by doing some "sweet sorting" of his Halloween treasures!

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.

Is your third grader bombing around on a bike these days? Here's a way to put all that fun time together with some math learning, too.