Ordinary drinking straws are fun for drinking juice and even for spitballs when you're not looking, but also fabulous for learning first grade math.

Declare a "Pocket Day" in your house and help your child practice his addition skills as he counts how many pockets the family is wearing that day!

If your preschooler needs counting practice, try this pared-down game. Kids count clips in each cup and find the playing card to match.

Help your child build ice cream cones as she practices her counting skills

First graders spend lots of time learning double digit numbers. Here's a "green" way to build skills and have some old time family fun, too.

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

Teach your child what a sugar plum is with this easy recipe that gets your child to chop, mix, and roll his way to a delicious treat.

This science fair project idea explores whether boiling and freezing water will have an effect on how much it weighs.

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

Make practicing addition facts more fun and teach your child the helpful strategy of adding quickly to 10 in this fun and easy-to-make card game!

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

Put together a pine forest to help you count down the days until Christmas with your little one.

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

Explore the math concept of probability with your fifth grader on "lucky" St. Patrick's day this year!

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

Play multiplication war, a fun card game, with your child and before long those annoying multiplication facts will be part of her mathematical skill set.

Want to help your kid with math? Get out the grab bag! This game is a great way to practice the tricky business of associating numbers with sets of objects.

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!

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

Science fair project that determines the relationship between the temperature and the rate of cricket chirping. How many times do crickets chirp each minute?

Practice multiplication facts and geography at the same time in this fun third grade math card game.

Teach your fifth grader an important math concept with this quick and simple activity that shows them how to divide whole numbers by fractions.

Here's an Easter themed math game to reinforce your child's logical reasoning and place value skills.

How does bleach kill bacteria? Kids find out in this impressive bacteria science fair project by testing different concentrations on a safe strain of E. coli.

Get your preschooler ready for kindergarten by helping them learn numbers 1-10 with homemade snowflake counting cards in this arts and crafts activity.

Your child can count out six pumpkins or six crayons, but what is a six all by itself? ThatÃs a much harder concept to grasp.

Nothing chases the blues away like a trip to the boardwalk. Bring the fun home with this do-it-yourself version that sneaks in some math practice.

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

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.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.