Kindergarten algebra is a lot different than high school. In kindergarten math, algebra means grouping like things, or noticing what doesn't belong in a set.

Need help encouraging your preschool child to organize her toys? Start with this activity, and turn sorting and categorizing into a fun game.

Have a lot of loose buttons lying around the house? Here are four ways to turn those loose buttons into an easy and positive learning experience. Button up!

Here's a fun math-oriented arts and crafts activity for your preschool or kindergarten child: create a gumdrop topiary and practice counting along the way.

Put your kid in charge of her own survey! She'll poll her relatives and friends, collect information, and then create a colorful chart to display her findings.

In this simple math activity, your young learner will compare two types of Valentine's Day candy using a Venn diagram.

Make an edible bracelet from Froot Loops and a shoelace! This Block Institute art activity will engage your special needs or mainstream child at snacktime.

Help your child learn the language of mathematics through cupcakes with this fun counting activity.

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.

Your child will learn more about coins and their denominations as he's asked to identify similar coins.

Play this fun matching game with your kindergartener! It's a great way to practice math and number skills with playing cards.

Challenge your kindergartener to finding out if a coin toss is really fair by conducting this coin toss experiment.

Have fun with the kids by "shaping up" your standard chocolate chip cookie recipe, and teach kids about sorting and shapes while you're at it.

In this preschool counting game, kids learn to count with their fingers, but without their eyes!

Help your preschooler grasp the concept of ordering and sequence while teaching him valuable vocabulary with simple activities around the house.

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.

Here's a fun math activity for your preschooler: play Sock Sort and help your pre-kindergartener recognize numbers!

Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

In this fun snack-time activity, kids boost counting, sorting, and color recognition skills as they make a delicious and nutritious snack.

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

Teach your preschooler color recognition using this handy egg carton sorter. She will group objects by color and learn to recognize their names with this tool.

Help your preschooler practice counting, matching, and learning colors with this fun game!

Try a 100th Day of School Scavenger Hunt with your preschooler, and send her on the search for objects of different colors!

Put your junk mail to good use! Armed with a stack ads and a few simple art supplies, your preschooler can make a cool poster for his room.

This activity is a great way to practice sorting, counting, matching, and other early math skills--- on the fly.

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

With this fun activity, you can help your preschooler make an cute shopping notepad to keep and use or give away as a gift. Here's how:

Sorting objects by size, color, shape, or function is an important concept in kindergarten math, and it's the perfect excuse for a little housekeeping!

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