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The Christmas Addition Tree is a great way to get kids actively involved in math practice through art projects over the holiday break.

Create a counting book, in order from 1-30, to help your child figure out a variety of ways of recognizing and representing numbers.

Lots of everyday objects can be fun, whether it's buttons, beans, or Lego blocks. Here's an activity that uses coins to build problem-solving strategies.

Find sums of 10 in this fun first-grade math card game that helps kids build addition skills. Help your child use critical thinking skills to find the sums.

Declare a "Pocket Day" in your house and help your child practice his addition skills as he counts how many pockets the family is wearing that day!

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

Make counting coins make "cents" to your second grader while giving her the chance to practice her math skills by playing this fun game with her.

Tangrams are a kindergarten staple, but now it's time to take them to the next level! Get your child started on geometry with this tangram puzzle.

Looking for a cool game to help your first grader learn her 11s? Look no further than this clever one-person card game.

It's important to be able to add and subtract quickly and accurately, and this activity is the perfect way to practice.

Support your first grader's counting and reading skills while laughing and running in this fun playground game.

Want a fun way to teach your kid to tell time? Making a plate clock is a great way for him to learn how to tell time in a way he'll actually find exciting.

Show your kindergartener how to count to 100 by tens, and he'll get an adorable cheerio necklace in the process!

Big bags hold a lot of candy, but they're hard to tote around. Have your kid construct a candy corn candy holder perfect for carrying a few lightweight treats.

Help your child practice her counting as she makes this fun and festive holiday decoration!

Your child will enjoy getting math practice as they use bugs in addition and subtraction problems.

Pfeffernusse are spicy and sweet Christmas cookies from Germany. Make a batch of traditional pfeffernusse this holiday season.

Work on measurement by sliding cards along a table with your second grader in this fun game. Use centimeters or inches, add up your totals, and see who's won!

Invite your first grader to play this subtraction sacks game to get her actively involved in understanding and memorizing subtraction facts.

Build your child's vocabulary by exploring and discussing spatial relationships during everyday activities such as building, rearranging, and ordering.

Use this fun spin-off of Bingo to help your child practice number recognition and listening skills!

Recycle old materials to create a fun, brain-teasing maze toy that also strengthens your child's math reasoning skills.

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the effects of temperature on salt and water solutions, as they form crystals over time.

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

Play this game to help froggie hop home...and teach the number line to your kindergartener while you're at it!

This activity will put those Halloween treats to good use by using candy corn to help your child with her subtraction skills.

This simple bookmaking activity will introduce and reinforce alphabet and number recognition skills that have been taught at home or learned in preschool.

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

Have some fun with your first or second grader, looking for creative ways that 100 cents can make $1.00!