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Your first grader will love telling time while playing this fun game of tag! Ask Captain Midnight for the time, but watch out when his watch says "midnight"!

Help your second grader to a better understanding of how to count and represent money with age old game of tic-tac-toe.

How much does 100 weigh? Play this fun guessing game with your child to commemorate the 100th day of school.

In this activity, your child will develop her sensory awareness and build important math skills while having fun outdoors.

Math Facts Game: A mix of musical chairs and Twister meets math. Nipping multiplication problems in the bud was never this much fun!

Grab some dice and play this take on tic-tac-toe. Itâs easy to set up and your child will have a blast.

Play a game of "restaurant" to reinforce real-world applications of counting and using money.

Create a fun hands-on game to practice long division, using magnetic numbers on a fridge.

Using just an egg carton and some beans or pennies, you can play this game with your first grader and see real gains in core math skills.

Let your child lend a helping hand while decorating the Christmas tree this year! This festive activity doubles as a lesson focusing on the number five.

Most timeline activities are all about history. Make timelines more relevant and personal for your child by focusing on the hours and minutes of his day.

Thanksgiving placemats are a great craft for your kid, and a beautiful addition to the dinner table. Make Thanksgiving placemats with your kid for the holiday.

Money is a difficult concept to grasp. Help your kid get the hang of it with this pocket change triple Venn diagram activity.

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

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

Do this fun activity that uses stickers to help your kindergartener with counting, basic addition, and one-to-one correspondence.

Using nothing fancier than old milk cartons and popsicle sticks, create a village full of fun learning for your kindergarten math student.

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 cement the concept of place value with this simple activity that involves creating a set of dials made from Styrofoam cups.

Work on division with remainders in this fun fourth grade math board game.

This activity is a great starting point for practicing mental math because it is quick, easy and involves only simple addition facts.

This first grade science activity is great for winter! Your child will grow and observe her own amaryllis bulb, keeping a journal of her scientific findings.

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.

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

Is your child struggling to remember the rules of place value? Here's a fun series of hands-on activities to help your child put the value in place value!

Give your second grader a chance to get his feet wet with measurement before he moves onto the more complicated stuff by trying this activity with him at home.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

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

Delay your child's sugar overload, and develop his critical thinking skills, by doing some "sweet sorting" of his Halloween treasures!