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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.

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!

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

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.

Create a graph based on the interests of family member's to see who has what in common. Your child will practice her math skills and get to know the family!

Engage your children with this fun fall activity that integrates math and science. First, your child will excavate to find leaves. Next, they'll examine them to determine the colors. Then, your child will graph their findings.

Okay, identifying place value isn't as fun as eating ice cream, but with a few index cards and a competitive spirit, it can be disguised a game!

Looking for a fun way for your child to practice the basics of addition, subtraction, and multiplication? Look no further than this fun card game!

What's my number? Go ahead and guess! This logic game focuses on number sense that suits all ability levels, as players' questions can be simple or complex.

Sharing can be a challenge, and division doubly so! Practice halving numbers in this competitive card game.

Try this fun addition game with your second grader! Arrange playing cards to find the largest possible sums.

Trying to find sums of groups of multiples is a great way to practice your addition. Be sure to double check your work. If you clear all of the cards, you win!

Check out this simple version of a pairs game that's played all over the world. It's a great way to practice estimating and predicting mathematical outcomes.

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

Make practicing addition facts more fun and teach your child some helpful strategies with this spin off of the traditional "Go Fish" game.

Multiplication facts are a necessary skill, and this board game provides a fun way for your third grader to practice them!

Race to double numbers in this competitive card game. Try one-digit or two-digit numbers, or more!

Play tic-tac-toe and help your kid memorize multiplication facts!

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.

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.

It's important to be able to add and subtract quickly and accurately, and this activity is the perfect way to practice.

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

Your child will be cheering for 8s and 9s as she tries to create a larger number than her competitors. Whoever ends up with the largest number wins!

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

Work on measurement by sliding cards along a table with your second grader in this fun game. Use centimeters or inches, add up your totals, and see who's won!

Play this fun basketball game to help your third grader master their multiplication tables.

Teach your third grader about the concepts money and purchasing with this "Mock Card Shop" activity.

Create some cards and a factor board and get ready to practice multiplication. This game will help your kid get one step closer to memorizing times tables!

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

Help your child practice multiplication tables with this mental and physical multitasking game that uses a hula hoop to get into the swing of things.