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.

In this fun math activity, second graders will learn to estimate items in a jar! 

Try this fun addition game with your second grader! Arrange playing cards to find the largest possible sums.

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

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

In this activity, have your second grader practice measuring by finding the height, weight, and length of their most treasured toy!

Try this fun math card game and practice place value with your second grader! Decide which number is bigger in order to earn points!

Support your first grader's counting and reading skills while laughing and running in this fun playground game.

Give your smart second grader a rich challenge with this activity that combines graphing practice with money!

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

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

Use empty soda bottles to create a fun bowling set that helps your first grader practice addition skills!

Add simple fractions in this fun math card game for second graders. This game is very similar to Blackjack, or 21, but it's entirely kid friendly!

Learn about borrowing in subtraction using a deck of cards and a die! Your first grader will have fun playing this math game.

Your first grader will love this addition challenge! Roll dice and keep a running total as you try to achieve the highest score.

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

First graders are learning basic addition and subtraction math facts. Practice in the sandbox with this fun outdoor math activity!

This fall, bake some festive caramel apple cupcakes with your second grader and help her build her math skills while you're at it!

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!

Invite your first grader to play this subtraction sacks game to get her actively involved in understanding and memorizing subtraction facts.

Play this fun game with your kindergarten or first grader. It's a great way to practice important math skills, including counting and addition.

Give your second grader a chance to get his feet wet with measurement before he moves onto the more complicated stuff by trying this activity with him at home.

Work on measurement by sliding cards along a table with your second grader in this fun game. Use centimeters or inches, add up your totals, and see who's won!

The Math Monster will save your second grader from repetitive math flashcards. Guessing mystery math facts is a fun way for him to polish arithmetic skills!

Make a fun refrigerator graph with your first grader in order to help her develop those crucial graphing skills, while engaging with the whole family.

Does your second grader want to learn a magic trick? Here is a simple trick using only 3 dice and a little bit of addition and subtraction.

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"!

Using just an egg carton and some beans or pennies, you can play this game with your first grader and see real gains in core math skills.

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

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.