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

Hone observational skills and introduce the basics of data interpretation with this data gathering activity all about the different colors people wear.

This activity will help your child tackle those tricky fraction word problems by way of a hands-on method.

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

Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen math skills using high and low temperature data, and become a master temperature tracker!

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

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.

Chlorine and chloramine are added to our tap water to kill harmful microorganisms. What is the best way to filter these disinfectants in your drinking water?

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.

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

Instead of drilling facts, grab sidewalk chalk and head outside for a rousing game of this Math Run game. Play the Math Run game with your child.

Delay your child's sugar overload, and develop his critical thinking skills, by doing some "sweet sorting" of his Halloween treasures!

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.

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

Analyze this simple betting game with your fourth grade student in order to discuss probability.

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

Create a fun hands-on game to practice long division, using magnetic numbers on a fridge.

Challenge your third-grader to sharpen her new math skills--and maybe do the planet a favor, too.

Want to ensure that your child's math knowledge stays sharp? This mean, median, and mode game is the perfect way to reinforce these essential math concepts.

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

What's your problem? I'll show you my math if you show me yours! Critical thinking and computation skills are the focus of this strategic math card game.

Play tic-tac-toe and help your kid memorize multiplication facts!

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!

This science fair project idea teaches how the gases and pollution in the air affect the earth's atmosphere temperature.

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

Check out this cool science fair project idea to explore the risk of mechanical deterioration of artifacts placed in a storage box due to mold outbreaks.

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

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

Work on division with remainders in this fun fourth grade math board game.

This activity is a great starting point for practicing mental math because it is quick, easy and involves only simple addition facts.