3rd - 5th Grade Math Activities : Page 2

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!

Check out this dice game perfect for teaching your savvy kid the fundamentals of probability.

In this science experiment, observe convection currents forming and learn about how heat energy moves in liquids from hot to cooler areas through convection.

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.

This hands-on activity gives your child an opportunity to apply various strategies to solve a problem and to check if his answer makes sense.

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.

Young physicists will wrestle with a discrepant event: the Hammer Ruler Trick. They'll make some inferences about torque, balance, and center of gravity.

Teach your kid a fun mathematical magic trick! All you'll need is a deck of cards and basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication skills.

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

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

This Pysanky egg-decorating activity is perfect for young artists. Bring a little color and creativity to any holiday with this traditional Ukrainian craft.

This activity will further your child's ability to interpret graphs and apply math skills in a real-world situation.

Practice multiplication facts and geography at the same time in this fun third grade math card game.

Learn to recognize symmetry by playing this game! The more you play, the better you'll get at recognizing this special characteristic many playing cards have.

Liven up a lesson about graphing by helping your third grader compile a bar graph from his classmates' birthday data.

Find the area in this fun math card game. You'll help your child start thinking in terms of units as you create shapes out of playing cards.

Here's a super fun game to get in some place value practice with your child!

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.

Nothing chases the blues away like a trip to the boardwalk. Bring the fun home with this do-it-yourself version that sneaks in some math practice.

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.

Kids will learn how to measure the viscosity of liquids by making their own homemade viscometer in this great science fair project idea.

Play this fun basketball game to help your third grader master their multiplication tables.