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

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!

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

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

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

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.

Practice of math facts is usually limited to drill sheets and flashcards. But kids are more likely to tune in to math facts if practice is presented as a game!

Dive into the world of cooking oil and smoke points to discover just how fast some oils start smoking.

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

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.

Getting kids to memorize their times tables can be worse than pulling teeth. Sweeten the deal with this activity that combines math and sugar.

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!

Thanksgiving is a time to be with loved ones. It's also a time to chow down! Need help in the kitchen? There's no better helper than an avid fourth grader.

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

In this cool project, create a lighted, scale model of the different layers of the Sun, including the core, radiation and convection zones, and photosphere.

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

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

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!

Here is a fun middle school science project on factors affecting solubility. Learn how dissolved solids can "crash out" to form crystals when conditions change.

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

How does salinity affect the point at which water freezes? Kids will find out by performing this cool melting ice experiment.

Celebrate Dia de los Muertos by baking pan de muerto. In this 5th-6th grade activity, your child will explore another culture while learning about baking.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

This science fair project looks one of the most important factors affecting seed germination: water. A fun and easy plant biology experiment for 3rd graders.

This little chick is so cute that your child will want to make a whole flock to call her own.

Help your child practice multiplication tables with this mental and physical multitasking game that uses a hula hoop to get into the swing of things.

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

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

Kids will create their own version of Richard Feynman's rubber band heat engine to learn about thermodynamics with this cool science fair project idea.