When you're studying the Mayflower, numbers can be an important part of the history...and a great chance to practice elementary math!

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

Engage your children with this fun fall activity that integrates math and science. First, your child will excavate to find leaves. Next, they'll examine them to determine the colors. Then, your child will graph their findings.

Okay, engaging in a graphing activity may sound ho-hum, but if you use fun data, it changes the picture entirely.

Increase your child's confidence in interpreting bar graphs and throw a little candy into the mix to sweeten the learning process.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Your child can brush up on her math skills by charting the length of time that each candle on the menorah takes to burn.

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

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

Liven up a lesson about graphing by helping your third grader compile a bar graph from his classmates' birthday data.