3rd - 5th Grade Math Activities

Science fair project in which you will examine how crystals are formed by creating your own crystal using charcoal briquettes, salt, and ammonia.

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Competitors go head-to-head only this time it's a race to figure out the lowest common multiple of two numbers; an important step to working with fractions!

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!

Draw your own beautiful mandala with this easy technique that ensures symmetrical results every time!

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.

Little scientists will make inferences about hearing loss, pitch, and frequency in this great science fair idea that puts the human ear to the test.

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

Simplify fractions with your child in this fast-paced math card game.

This project determines whether Styrofoam, paper, or plastic cups are best for preventing ice from melting.

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!

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

Teach your third grader about the concepts money and purchasing with this "Mock Card Shop" activity.

Try a new approach to working with variables and equations by playing this tic-tac-toe game with your math student.

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

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

Practice conversions within the metric system in this fun math card game for third graders.

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.

Help your child improve his coin counting skills in these two math games that have him race to reach $1.00.

Does your fifth grader need a study buddy for geometry? Forget about a tutor. Help him make his own geometry dictionary!

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.

This simple experiment serves as an introduction to the greenhouse effect.

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.

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

Exponents can be tricky to learn. Fortunately this game provides plenty of multiplication practice for your math student!

This heart print makes the perfect simple and sweet gift for Valentine's Day!

In this science fair project, we learn how air molecules move as a result of density, convection, and air currents.