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Teach your young academic about counting and clocks with a tasty treat!

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

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

Make practicing addition facts more fun and teach your child the helpful strategy of adding quickly to 10 in this fun and easy-to-make card game!

Science fair project idea which teaches you how to make butter by separating cream into butter and buttermilk.

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

This cool science fair project teaches kids about temperature, density and buoyancy using balloons that float with normal air. No helium required!

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

Tangrams are a kindergarten staple, but now it's time to take them to the next level! Get your child started on geometry with this tangram puzzle.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

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.

Does your second grader want to learn a magic trick? Here is a simple trick using only 3 dice and a little bit of addition and subtraction.

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the effects of temperature on salt and water solutions, as they form crystals over time.

Declare a "Pocket Day" in your house and help your child practice his addition skills as he counts how many pockets the family is wearing that day!

Instead of drilling facts, grab sidewalk chalk and head outside for a rousing game of this Math Run game. Play the Math Run game with your child.

Practice conversions within the metric system in this fun math card game for third graders.

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

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!

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!

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.

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.

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

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!