2nd and 3rd Grade Math Activities

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

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!

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

Why doesn't the ocean freeze? Students answer this question by simulating the chemical composition and temperature of arctic waters in their own home.

Help your child improve his coin counting skills in these two math games that have him race to reach $1.00.

This little chick is so cute that your child will want to make a whole flock to call her own.

Teach your third grader about the concepts money and purchasing with this "Mock Card Shop" activity.

This project determines whether Styrofoam, paper, or plastic cups are best for preventing ice from melting.

How powerful is the reaction between baking soda and vinegar? Find out here!

Practice multiplication facts by playing baseball in this fun, third grade math board game.

Here's a math activity that uses coin riddles to help your third-grader improve his coin-counting and logical thinking skills.

With this fun craft activity, your child can design and "make" his own money, for use as currency and math practice at home.

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

Kids will learn how to make a thermometer to to explore liquid density in this great science fair project. Which liquids are affected by temperature the most?

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.

Why does honey crystallize? This science fair project project answers this question and identifies the variable that makes this sweet solute crystallize faster.

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.

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.

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

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

Math Facts Game: A mix of musical chairs and Twister meets math. Nipping multiplication problems in the bud was never this much fun!

Make your own marshmallows and mix up some very interesting third grade chemistry lessons while you're at it!

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.

Here is a fun middle school science project on factors affecting solubility. Learn how dissolved solids can "crash out" to form crystals when conditions change.

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

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

Give your child some practice with even numbers, while creating a cute Christmas keepsake. Create this skip counting book.

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

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