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

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

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

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!

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

Graph are a great way to organize information. Your child will get to practice graphing by creating a bar graph and a pictorial graph of her friend's names.

Increase your child's confidence in interpreting bar graphs and throw a little candy into the mix to sweeten the learning process.

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