4th and 5th Grade Math Activities : Page 3

Teach your kid a fun mathematical magic trick! All you'll need is a deck of cards and basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication skills.

Introduce decimals and place value with this fun math card game for fourth grade students.

This activity with add some fun and education to long car trips. Perfect for family vacations!

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

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.

This game is a great way to help your child remember the names of shapes. Give it a go and before you know it, your kid will have all her shapes down pat.

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!

Introduce your fourth or fifth grader to volume by having him build rectangular prisms, and then count each sugar cube to check his volume calculations.

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

How much does 100 weigh? Play this fun guessing game with your child to commemorate the 100th day of school.

This decimal game is a great way to help your child get familiar with how decimal values work.

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

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

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

This science fair project teaches you about what makes persimmons so tart and how astringency can be removed by studying the effect of tannins on fruit.

This entertaining magic trick will 'trick' kids into using math skill to impress their friends!

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!

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

Got a kid who loves fashion? Help her develop her own unique style with this tie-dye project using natural dyes.

What is the hydrologic cycle and how does it work? Check out this fun and easy science project where you will model and learn about Earth's water cycle!

This experiment examines whether storing your orange juice at different temperatures affects its acidity.

These sparkling earrings look fancy but they're super simple to make using inexpensive craft items.

Science fair project that examines how yeast grows, and which conditions allow for optimal growth. What types of nutrients does yeast prefer?

Whatever is stacked in your cupboard can be used to help your child learn how to compare fractions and decimals. A great hands-on math lesson!

Is horse manure a possible energy source in a crisis? Use calorimetry to find out how much energy horse manure can produce in this 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.

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

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

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

Science fair project that examines how temperature affects density and how density in turn affects the behavior of helium gas.