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Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

Instead of drilling facts, grab sidewalk chalk and head outside for a rousing game of this Math Run game. Play the Math Run game with your child.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Help your kindergartener learn to manage a telephone with this homemade keyboard that also helps kids practice letters and numbers.

Use Henri Matisse as inspiration for your preschooler or kindergartener to create a unique and funky paper shapes collage in this arts and crafts activity.

Practice conversions within the metric system in this fun math card game for third graders.

If your 2nd grade child asks for time often, encourage him to read time on his own by talking about time throughout the day.

Want to make math a little more exciting? This single-player game is designed to help your child practice combining cards to create sums of 14.

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

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!

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.

Whatever is stacked in your cupboard can be used to help your child learn how to compare fractions and decimals. A great hands-on math lesson!

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

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.

Probability can be a tough concept to master. Try playing this fun card game in order to help your third grader understand it a little better.

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

Challenge your third-grader to sharpen her new math skills--and maybe do the planet a favor, too.

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

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.

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.

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.