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.

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!

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

For most second graders, a good secret code is just about irresistible. Here's one that builds math facts while you're at it!

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.

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

Run, jump, and skip your way to physical fitness as your exercise with dice! It's a perfect party or family game.

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.

Make subtraction practice more fun with this outdoor review game that's great for beginning math learners and more advanced!

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

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.

Is your child struggling to remember the rules of place value? Here's a fun series of hands-on activities to help your child put the value in place value!

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.

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

Simple and straightforward, this money math game helps kids practice counting, adding change, and working with decimals.

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.

This kinesthetic game will help your child practice rounding and get the adrenaline rushing!

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