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Create addition problems using critical thinking skills in this fun second grade math card game.

This first grade addition math game helps your child use critical thinking skills while practicing his computation.

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.

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.

Practice problem solving skills with your kindergarten or first grade student in this fun connect-the-dots game!

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

In this fun math activity, second graders will learn to estimate items in a jar! 

Try this fun addition game with your second grader! Arrange playing cards to find the largest possible sums.

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

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.

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

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.

Get estimating with this spooky activity that asks your young mathematician to rely on their problem-solving skills to figure out how many items they believe are in spooky Halloween jars!

Challenge your 1st grader to skip count with this sequence game. Help him find missing numbers by figuring out the pattern and building on math skills!

Do a little kitchen chemistry as you make your own bubble solution and bubble-wand shapes!

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

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

Celebrate the 100th day of school by creating a geometric, math-inspired mural in the style of Henri Matisse in this creative kindergarten grade art activity.

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

In this activity, students build a house of sticks, just like the second little pig in the classic story, The Three Little Pigs. Then, they program an educational robot to push down the house, much like the wolf who “blows the house down.”

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.

Make math fun for your child by turning it into a game and challenging him to beat the calculator with this cool math race!

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

Kindergarten algebra is a lot different than high school. In kindergarten math, algebra means grouping like things, or noticing what doesn't belong in a set.