3rd and 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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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

How powerful is the reaction between baking soda and vinegar? Find out here!

Playing a tactile game with multiplication will help your child get a better grasp of basic math concepts and transform your kid into a master multiplier.

Make math fun and easy with this activity that challenges your child to use their addition and multiplication skills to win a race!

Help your second grader to a better understanding of how to count and represent money with age old game of tic-tac-toe.

This is a great game to help your child learn number concepts in multiplication and division.

Introduce your fourth or fifth grader to volume by having him build rectangular prisms, and then count each sugar cube to check his volume calculations.

This interdisciplinary card game will have your third grader working on math facts as he travels through the solar system!

Have your student draft a blueprint for a haunted house, and trick (or treat) them into learning about geometry in the process.

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

Okay, engaging in a graphing activity may sound ho-hum, but if you use fun data, it changes the picture entirely.

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!

This fun math card game is a great opportunity to discuss probability with your third grader.

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!

The goal of this golf science fair science fair project is to determine whether the temperature of a golf ball affects its elasticity and its rebound.