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Here's a hands-on way to help your child understand how common fractions can be equivalent.

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!

Explore the wattage of microwaves in relevance to cooking time.

This activity will further your child's ability to interpret graphs and apply math skills in a real-world situation.

For a fun activity that takes the dull out of decimals, show you child how to gain a better understanding of decimals...as dollar amounts!

Check out this game that provides an enjoyable way of demonstrating how recorded results can be expressed in whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.

Test whether cutting up meats will make it cook faster than just cooking it whole.

Find out whether cast iron or regular teflon pans heat up faster and also retain their heat longer.

Find out whether freezing or refrigerating destroys more bacteria. This is essential to consuming safe and germ-free food.

Learning to identify and categorize different geometric shapes is a big goal for early learners. And your neighborhood is the perfect place to start!

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

Based on the concept of water's "freezing point," this activity entails the lowering of water's freezing point to chill ice cream!

Compare air temperature with the infrared temperature from a reflecting surface at different times of the day, in shade and in sunlight.

This copying game is like a hopped up version of Simon Says, but it lets kids use their bodies to practice patterning, a key skill in early math.

When your child is itching for a game, consider ditching Hide and Seek in favor of Shape and Seek. Here's how it works:

Determine how salinity affects the circulation of warm and cold water. Note whether the warm water mixes or forms a layer with cold water.

Science fair project that determines the correlation between the ability of selected materials to conduct heat and a material's density.

This experiment uses a yeast solution, liquid detergent, and hydrogen peroxide to produce an exciting reaction like no other!

This science fair project teaches you about what makes persimmons so tart and how astringency can be removed by studying the effect of tannins on fruit.

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

This do-it-anywhere guessing game helps reinforce number concepts. And it's a blast to play.

A food groups plate shows your child what category her foods belong in. Make a food groups plate with your child before dinnertime.

Help your preschooler or preschooler with shape recognition, math, and matching by creating your own personal shapes cards, good for home or car.

The purpose of this science project is to determine which chemical best lowers the temperature of water in a cold pack and if the amount affects its use.

This flexible activity for preschoolers features jellybeans, counting, coloring, and the five senses.

Your child will need to combine his sporty hand-eye coordination skills with his math skills to become the bullseye king.

Here's Twist 'N Turn: let your preschooler or pre-kindergartener be outside and active while learning about shapes, colors, directions, and word recognition.