2nd - 4th Grade Math Activities

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

In this fun science fair project, make two different scale models of our solar system using Astronomical Units and planets' relative size!

Play multiplication war, a fun card game, with your child and before long those annoying multiplication facts will be part of her mathematical skill set.

This St. Patrick's day, stretch your third grader's social studies and math skills with this fun, cooperative learning game.

Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.

Most people assume that cold water freezes more quickly, but could that be false? Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? Let's find out!

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

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

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

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!

Practice multiplication facts and geography at the same time in this fun third grade math card game.

Why doesn't the ocean freeze? Students answer this question by simulating the chemical composition and temperature of arctic waters in their own home.

Help your child improve his coin counting skills in these two math games that have him race to reach $1.00.

Enjoy this kid-friendly recipe for Irish soda bread, just in time for St. Patrick's Day!

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

Get estimating with this spooky activity that asks your young mathematician to rely on their problem-solving skills to figure out how many items they believe are in spooky Halloween jars!

Have your student draft a blueprint for a haunted house, and trick (or treat) them into learning about geometry in the process.

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

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

Kids will learn how to make a thermometer to to explore liquid density in this great science fair project. Which liquids are affected by temperature the most?

Try this fun math card game and practice place value with your second grader! Decide which number is bigger in order to earn points!

Turn learning fractions into a pizza party in this fun second grade math game.

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

How powerful is the reaction between baking soda and vinegar? Find out here!

Review fractions with your budding mathematician when you play this fun, educational math board game.

Why does honey crystallize? This science fair project project answers this question and identifies the variable that makes this sweet solute crystallize faster.

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

Here's a math activity that uses coin riddles to help your third-grader improve his coin-counting and logical thinking skills.

Playing a tactile game with multiplication will help your child get a better grasp of basic math concepts and transform your kid into a master multiplier.

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.