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Give your child some practice with even numbers, while creating a cute Christmas keepsake. Create this skip counting book.

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

Create equations in this strategic math card game. Your second or third grader can practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in a new way!

Celebrate Chinese New Year by teaching your child how to use chopsticks! She'll build her math and fine motor skills as she does this activity.

Make fractions easy for your child to understand by incorporating their discussion and practice into meals and cooking that you two participate in together.

Creating number patterns with pencil and paper can be dull, but creating hopscotch pattern can bring exciting math learning!

Finding the greatest number is great math practice! This strategic card game will help reinforce the concept of number value as well as addition facts.

There's nothing like a treasure hunt to get kids excited about math and sorting.

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

Play this "subtraction war" card game with your second grader and watch his math facts mastery leap forward!

Here's a math game for your preschooler or kindergartener that'll make number recognition as easy as a pizza pie!

Use this fun math board game to improve your first grader's confidence with addition facts.

This competitive inequalities card game is a great way to help your child understand the connection between numerals and the values they represent.

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

Think you need a special dehydrator to make your own fruit leather? You can actually make a delicious version of this popular kid's snack in your own oven.

Help your child "step up" to second grade math fact challenges with a fun addition and subtraction game in your very own kitchen.

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

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!

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.

Does the idea of taking your child to an art museum sound daunting? Create your own museum and give your child some practice with shapes!

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

In this activity, your child will create a red envelope that can be filled with money to spread good will and ward off evil spirits in the New Year.

In kindergarten, your child spent lots of time counting things one by one. But in first grade, he'll need to be able to count in groups, especially by fives.

Here's a hands-on activity that first grade use to help kids get a feel for equations. It uses popsicle sticks to practice addition and subtraction!

Help your child make an imaginative, inexpensive spaceship from recycled materials. When the spaceship is ready, count backwards from ten and then BLAST-OFF!

Make the abstract nature of time and money easier for your kid to understand with some fun ideas that focus on these concepts.

Sorting objects by size, color, shape, or function is an important concept in kindergarten math, and it's the perfect excuse for a little housekeeping!

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

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.