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Here's a hands-on way to help your child understand how common fractions can be equivalent.

Check out this game that provides an enjoyable way of demonstrating how recorded results can be expressed in whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.

Find out whether cast iron or regular teflon pans heat up faster and also retain their heat longer.

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

All you need are pencils, paper and some scissors to get started on this easy and fun game to review astronomy information, or other types of study concepts.

Help your child "step up" to second grade math fact challenges with a fun addition and subtraction game in your very own kitchen.

This fun game helps children learn to estimate the most basic unit of time--a minute--without a clock.

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

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.

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

Here's a fun, geometric puzzle activity that will capture your child's interest and strengthen his number awareness and graphing skills.

Have your child observe, measure and record the amount of space objects occupy, and you'll have an inside space explorer on your hands in no time!

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

Try this entertaining and educational math activity that will teach your child how to add and subtract decimals.

You've heard the expression "burn rubber" but do you know how heat affects rubber? Examine the impact of temperature on rubber in this fun science experiment.

Whatever is stacked in your cupboard can be used to help your child learn how to compare fractions and decimals. A great hands-on math lesson!

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

This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.

Science fair project that compares the freezing temperature of salt water and freshwater in order to learn about supercooling and condensation nuclei.

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 fractions easy for your child to understand by incorporating their discussion and practice into meals and cooking that you two participate in together.

Get your child excited about measuring with this fun and easy household measurements activity.

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

This activity will help your child tackle those tricky fraction word problems by way of a hands-on method.

In this activity, your child will get a review of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division using classic domino pieces.

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

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

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

Practice of math facts is usually limited to drill sheets and flashcards. But kids are more likely to tune in to math facts if practice is presented as a game!

This activity is a great starting point for practicing mental math because it is quick, easy and involves only simple addition facts.