3rd - 5th Grade Math Activities : Page 4

Here's a fun, geometric puzzle activity that will capture your child's interest and strengthen his number awareness and graphing skills.

Get ready to make a dollar...using playing cards! The first player to accumulate the amount of points equal to a dollar wins.

What keeps a an item cooler, polymer crystals or ice? Find out in this cool science experiment!

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

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

Here's an activity that will get your child's attention with a back-to-school shopping spree. He'll use decimal skills to add, subtract, multiply, and divide!

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

Learning to identify prime numbers can be tricky. But this fun card game can make memorizing some basic prime numbers a breeze.

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.

Making decorative pottery is a great way to experiment with making patterns and texture on a traditionally smooth surface.

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!

Your third grader will be amazed at the explosive combination of vinegar and baking soda in these chocolate volcano cupcakes with white chocolate "lava."

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

In this matching activity, your kid will match the clock faces representing analog time with the numeric readings representing digital time.

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

Here's an interactive, fast-paced game that will make your fifth grader feel more comfortable with simple equations.

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

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.

Science fair project which simulates the global conveyor belts on a small scale, and observes the effects of wind, density and temperature on water movement.

Here's a hands-on activity you can do with your fourth-grader to practice measurement and directly apply the concept of area.

Homemade Halloween treats make great party foods for an All Hallow's Eve get together. These four homemade Halloween treats are scary-good.

This fun science project helps to investigate how much water can a plant take up and release in a certain period of time through the process of transpiration.

Probability can be a tough concept to master. Try playing this fun card game in order to help your third grader understand it a little better.

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

Most parents probably wouldn't mind subtracting 8-9 years off their age. Here's a fun third grade subtraction activity that may do just that.

Toss playing cards into boxes while you practice addition and multiplication with decimals in this fun, fifth grade math game.

Kids will learn about insulation, heat conduction, and the economic benefits of energy efficient windows in this cool science fair project.

You've heard the expression "burn rubber" but do you know how heat affects rubber? Examine the impact of temperature on rubber in this fun science experiment.

Your child will be cheering for 8s and 9s as she tries to create a larger number than her competitors. Whoever ends up with the largest number wins!

Using simple materials found around your home, you can reinforce the static electricity concept by helping your child build a simple device with zapping power!