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Draw some educational value out of a summer stocked full of adventures!

Give your smart second grader a rich challenge with this activity that combines graphing practice with money!

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.

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

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

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

Learn about coins and their value by making an animal piggy bank. Here's how to make a lion, pig, or sheep bank!

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

Teach your young academic about counting and clocks with a tasty treat!

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.

How do animals keep warm? In this experiment, find out whether fat insulation resists cold temperatures and learn how this works in the animal kingdom.

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

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.

Kids will build a turtle habitat in order to observe the climate preferences of this cold-blooded reptile.

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?

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

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

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

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

Okay, identifying place value isn't as fun as eating ice cream, but with a few index cards and a competitive spirit, it can be disguised a game!

Thousands of witches that come out to celebrate Halloween. Now, your child can make her very own self-standing witch.

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

Your child can brush up on her math skills by charting the length of time that each candle on the menorah takes to burn.

In this science fair project, we'll use a liquid crystal thermometer to find out whether exercising makes a difference in people's temperature.

This game is the perfect way to prepare your child for any shopping adventures you may embark upon, all while practicing important math concepts.

Have your child construct his own Christmas tree from construction paper while cutting, overlapping and measuring to create an adorable modern design.

Practice your addition and subtraction in this card game. Disclose is a math activity any first or second grader will love!

Try this fun addition game with your second grader! Arrange playing cards to find the largest possible sums.

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