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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!

This fall, bake some festive caramel apple cupcakes with your second grader and help her build her math skills while you're at it!

Here's an activity that will get your child's attention with a back-to-school shopping spree. He'll use decimal skills to add, subtract, multiply, and divide!

If you're looking for a fun way to have your child gain practice pattern-making while working out fine motor skills, making Washi eggs is the perfect activity.

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

Calling all power-shoppers! This game is a fun way for kids to learn life skills, and flex their math muscles at the same 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!

Create a graph based on the interests of family member's to see who has what in common. Your child will practice her math skills and get to know the family!

Use a recycling project to hone your childâs sewing skills and clean up her art supplies when she turns the leg of an old pair of jeans into a storage basket.

What's your problem? I'll show you my math if you show me yours! Critical thinking and computation skills are the focus of this strategic math card game.

When you're studying the Mayflower, numbers can be an important part of the history...and a great chance to practice elementary math!

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!

This science fair project teaches you about what makes persimmons so tart and how astringency can be removed by studying the effect of tannins on fruit.

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.

Science fair project that examines how yeast grows, and which conditions allow for optimal growth. What types of nutrients does yeast prefer?

For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

Make math fun for your child by turning it into a game and challenging him to beat the calculator with this cool math race!

This game provides your child with the opportunity to create, write, and read numbers.

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.

Most parents probably wouldn't mind subtracting 8-9 years off their age. Here's a fun third grade subtraction activity that may do just that.

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

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!

Science fair project which simulates the global conveyor belts on a small scale, and observes the effects of wind, density and temperature on water movement.

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

Learn how to make a hygrometer to measure relative humidity in this project. Make a sling psychrometer hygrometer with gauze, thermometers, and a bottle.

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.

In this fun math activity, second graders will learn to estimate items in a jar! 

If you love the idea of handing out holiday tins of homemade cookies but you're not a baker, chocolate-covered apples are the perfect solution.

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.