Kindergarten - 3rd Grade Math Activities

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

Your child will love making this adorable clover clock that will help him learn how to tell time.

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

Most people assume that cold water freezes more quickly, but could that be false? Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? Let's find out!

Take paper football to the next level by creating a "field" with objects from around the house. A great indoor and rainy-day activity.

Why doesn't the ocean freeze? Students answer this question by simulating the chemical composition and temperature of arctic waters in their own home.

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

Help your kindergartener review shapes - and build early reading skills - with this creative book project.

Practice multiplication facts by playing baseball in this fun, third grade math board game.

Try this new twist to the traditional memory game to help your learner match number symbols to the correct quantity while sharpening their memory skills!

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

Play this game that lets you create your own silly monster drawing and helps your child practice her counting skills!

Teach your third grader about the concepts money and purchasing with this "Mock Card Shop" activity.

How powerful is the reaction between baking soda and vinegar? Find out here!

This activity is based on the popular card game, Slapjack. It's rip-roaring fun, and it reinforces the concepts of odd and even.

In this hands-on craft project, kids will make an analog clock of their own, and then use it to learn how to tell time.

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

Help your child stay physically and mentally active with this group aerobic fitness game that's good for the heart and mind alike.

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

Turn learning fractions into a pizza party in this fun second grade math game.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

Take math off the page and into the real world. This simple game gives kindergarten kids hands-on practice with basic addition.

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

Help your child improve his coin counting skills in these two math games that have him race to reach $1.00.

Counting with one-to-one correspondence is an important kindergarten math skill. This simple activity turns it into a play-anywhere game.

Combine an introduction to shape and counting with a springtime art project by showing your kindergartener how to create a vibrant rainbow mosaic.

This caterpillar math game gets your child to work on addition and subtraction. Challenge your child's math prowess with this fast-paced caterpillar math game.

Why does honey crystallize? This science fair project project answers this question and identifies the variable that makes this sweet solute crystallize faster.

This interdisciplinary card game will have your third grader working on math facts as he travels through the solar system!

This project determines whether Styrofoam, paper, or plastic cups are best for preventing ice from melting.