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

Hone observational skills and introduce the basics of data interpretation with this data gathering activity all about the different colors people wear.

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

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

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

Practice measurement using centimeters in this fun math race designed for your second grade student!

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

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

Create addition problems using critical thinking skills in this fun second grade math card game.

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

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.

Play a math logic and critical thinking game using a deck of cards. Use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in this fun activity.

Engage your third-grader in this version of the classic game and she will get lots of practice using mental math to solve addition and subtraction problems.

Playing the Number Sentence Game with your child gives him the opportunity to practice ordering and comparing numbers using symbols.

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.

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.

How does frost form? How fast does it form? Do this simple science project using a plastic glass, rock salt and some water to learn about deposition.

Defend your cards in this multiplication math game! Your kid will enjoy using strategy to build equations and win points in this activity.

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

Graph are a great way to organize information. Your child will get to practice graphing by creating a bar graph and a pictorial graph of her friend's names.

Give your smart second grader a rich challenge with this activity that combines graphing practice with money!

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!

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

This project determines whether Styrofoam, paper, or plastic cups are best for preventing ice from melting.

What keeps a an item cooler, polymer crystals or ice? Find out in this cool science experiment!

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

This project tests the hypothesis that dark colors absorb more heat than light colors.

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

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.

Kids will build a turtle habitat in order to observe the climate preferences of this cold-blooded reptile.