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Make math fun and easy with this activity that challenges your child to use their addition and multiplication skills to win a race!

This hands-on activity gives your child an opportunity to apply various strategies to solve a problem and to check if his answer makes sense.

The crust is fun for kids to mix and roll out, and the filling overflows with vitamin and anti-oxidant packed berries!

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?

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

This science fair project idea explores whether boiling and freezing water will have an effect on how much it weighs.

Here's a hands-on way to help your child understand how common fractions can be equivalent.

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

Find out whether cast iron or regular teflon pans heat up faster and also retain their heat longer.

All you need are pencils, paper and some scissors to get started on this easy and fun game to review astronomy information, or other types of study concepts.

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

Here's a fun, geometric puzzle activity that will capture your child's interest and strengthen his number awareness and graphing skills.

Have your child observe, measure and record the amount of space objects occupy, and you'll have an inside space explorer on your hands in no time!

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.

Science fair project that compares the freezing temperature of salt water and freshwater in order to learn about supercooling and condensation nuclei.

For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

In this activity, your child will get a review of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division using classic domino pieces.

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

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

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.

Little scientists will make inferences about hearing loss, pitch, and frequency in this great science fair idea that puts the human ear to the test.

Any time is the perfect time to whip up a delicious batch of fluffy pumpkin cookies.

Turn any sunny summer day into a fun and special occasion by having a watermelon seed spitting contest!

Instead of loading up on mayonnaise based potato salad, your child can whip up something healthier: German potato salad!

Teach your fifth grader an important math concept with this quick and simple activity that shows them how to divide whole numbers by fractions.

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

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

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

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