Elementary School Math Activities : Page 3

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

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

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Playing a tactile game with multiplication will help your child get a better grasp of basic math concepts and transform your kid into a master multiplier.

Make math fun and easy with this activity that challenges your child to use their addition and multiplication skills to win a race!

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.

Turn learning fractions into a pizza party in this fun second grade math game.

This is a great game to help your child learn number concepts in multiplication and division.

Introduce your fourth or fifth grader to volume by having him build rectangular prisms, and then count each sugar cube to check his volume calculations.

This interdisciplinary card game will have your third grader working on math facts as he travels through the solar system!

Play this "subtraction war" card game with your second grader and watch his math facts mastery leap forward!

Create equations in this strategic math card game. Your second or third grader can practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in a new way!

Check out this dice game perfect for teaching your savvy kid the fundamentals of probability.

In this science experiment, observe convection currents forming and learn about how heat energy moves in liquids from hot to cooler areas through convection.

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

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

Have your student draft a blueprint for a haunted house, and trick (or treat) them into learning about geometry in the process.

Create addition problems using critical thinking skills in this fun second grade math card game.

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

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

Create a graph based on the interests of family member's to see who has what in common. Your child will practice her math skills and get to know the family!

This fun math card game is a great opportunity to discuss probability with your third grader.

This hands-on activity gives your child an opportunity to apply various strategies to solve a problem and to check if his answer makes sense.

Get estimating with this spooky activity that asks your young mathematician to rely on their problem-solving skills to figure out how many items they believe are in spooky Halloween jars!

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

The goal of this golf science fair science fair project is to determine whether the temperature of a golf ball affects its elasticity and its rebound.

Young physicists will wrestle with a discrepant event: the Hammer Ruler Trick. They'll make some inferences about torque, balance, and center of gravity.

A hands-on guessing game that teaches kids to recognize different coins. First graders will learn their money and their math at the same time!

Use this fun spin-off of Bingo to help your child practice number recognition and listening skills!