3rd - 5th Grade Math Activities

This St. Patrick's day, stretch your child's social studies and math skills with this fun, cooperative learning game.

Science fair project in which you will examine how crystals are formed by creating your own crystal using charcoal briquettes, salt, and ammonia.

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

In this fun science fair project, make two different scale models of our solar system using Astronomical Units and planets' relative size!

Play multiplication war, a fun card game, with your child and before long those annoying multiplication facts will be part of her mathematical skill set.

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

Draw your own beautiful mandala with this easy technique that ensures symmetrical results every time!

Most people assume that cold water freezes more quickly, but could that be false? Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? Let's find out!

Does your fifth grader need a study buddy for geometry? Forget about a tutor. Help him make his own geometry dictionary!

Practice multiplication facts by playing baseball in this fun, third grade math board game.

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!

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

Teach your third grader about the concepts money and purchasing with this "Mock Card Shop" activity.

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

Simplify fractions with your child in this fast-paced math card game.

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.

Help your child improve his coin counting skills in these two math games that have him race to reach $1.00.

Why does honey crystallize? This science fair project project answers this question and identifies the variable that makes this sweet solute crystallize faster.

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

This interdisciplinary card game will have your third grader working on math facts as he travels through the solar system!

Check out this game that provides an enjoyable way of demonstrating how recorded results can be expressed in whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.

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

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

Practice conversions within the metric system in this fun math card game for third graders.

Exponents can be tricky to learn. Fortunately this game provides plenty of multiplication practice for your math student!

Practice math and social studies skills with this fun game based on the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

In this science fair project, we'll use a liquid crystal thermometer to find out whether exercising makes a difference in people's temperature.

Playing a tactile game with multiplication will help your child get a better grasp of basic math concepts and transform your kid into a master multiplier.

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

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