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Help your child get comfortable with the concept of estimation, which will come in handy during everything from standardized tests to future shopping trips!

During the Passover Seder, many Jewish families pour a cup of red wine for Elijah. This year, help your child create his own welcoming glass for Elijah.

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

Learning to count change can be tough! Help your child become a master money-counter with this simple game.

Creating number patterns with pencil and paper can be dull, but creating hopscotch pattern can bring exciting math learning!

Learning to identify prime numbers can be tricky. But this fun card game can make memorizing some basic prime numbers a breeze.

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

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.

Make this delicious warm apple bread for Hanukkah.

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

Make counting coins make "cents" to your second grader while giving her the chance to practice her math skills by playing this fun game with her.

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.

Try this recipe with your child and explore Ethiopia through one of its dietary staples: injera, or flat bread!

Help your child sharpen time skills by creating a special day and charting each part in a detailed schedule.

Make math fun and easy with this activity that challenges your child to use their addition and multiplication skills to win a race!

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

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!

The next time you've got a restless second grade earth scientist on your hands, use this experiment to demonstrate crystals and make a tasty treat, too!

Introduce your fourth or fifth grader to volume by having him build rectangular prisms, and then count each sugar cube to check his volume calculations.

Recycle old materials to create a fun, brain-teasing maze toy that also strengthens your child's math reasoning skills.

Analyze this simple betting game with your fourth grade student in order to discuss probability.

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

Use familiar household items and decorations to turn estimation into a fun game!

Thanksgiving is a time to be with loved ones. It's also a time to chow down! Need help in the kitchen? There's no better helper than an avid fourth grader.

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.

This pumpkin dessert recipe tastes like pie but looks like a no-bake cookie.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

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

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?

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.