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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Create a fun hands-on game to practice long division, using magnetic numbers on a fridge.

Getting kids to memorize their times tables can be worse than pulling teeth. Sweeten the deal with this activity that combines math and sugar.

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

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.

Engage your third-grader in this version of the classic game and she will get lots of practice using mental math to solve addition and subtraction problems.

Tangrams are a kindergarten staple, but now it's time to take them to the next level! Get your child started on geometry with this tangram puzzle.

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.

This cool science fair project teaches kids about temperature, density and buoyancy using balloons that float with normal air. No helium required!

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

Increase your child's confidence in interpreting bar graphs and throw a little candy into the mix to sweeten the learning process.

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

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

Kids discover what a homogeneous mixture is by adding sugar to distilled water and identify the various factors affecting solubility.

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

Kids will create their own version of Richard Feynman's rubber band heat engine to learn about thermodynamics with this cool science fair project idea.

How does frost form? How fast does it form? Do this simple science project using a plastic glass, rock salt and some water to learn about deposition.