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Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Your kindergartener will learn basic math concepts and create a beautiful keepsake with this African flag reference book.

Here's an innovative math puzzle that you can create with your fourth grade math student.

This fun game helps children learn to estimate the most basic unit of time--a minute--without a clock.

Learning to identify prime numbers can be tricky. But this fun card game can make memorizing some basic prime numbers a breeze.

Teach your kid a fun mathematical magic trick! All you'll need is a deck of cards and basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication skills.

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.

This game is a great way to help your child remember the names of shapes. Give it a go and before you know it, your kid will have all her shapes down pat.

Find the area in this fun math card game. You'll help your child start thinking in terms of units as you create shapes out of playing cards.

Tangrams are a kindergarten staple, but now it's time to take them to the next level! Get your child started on geometry with this tangram puzzle.

This experiment examines whether storing your orange juice at different temperatures affects its acidity.

This science fair project idea explores whether factors such as temperature and concentration affect the pH of a solution.

Have your child observe, measure and record the amount of space objects occupy, and you'll have an inside space explorer on your hands in no time!

This heart print makes the perfect simple and sweet gift for Valentine's Day!

Get back into school with this exciting architecture exploration! In this craft activity your child will research, draw, and build his own school.

Draw your own beautiful mandala with this easy technique that ensures symmetrical results every time!

This fun geometry game requires players to use measurement, find perimeter, and draw polygons. It's great for a fourth grade math student!

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.

Help your child "step up" to second grade math fact challenges with a fun addition and subtraction game in your very own kitchen.

Thousands of witches that come out to celebrate Halloween. Now, your child can make her very own self-standing witch.

In this activity, your child will get a review of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division using classic domino pieces.

Make math fun for your child by turning it into a game and challenging him to beat the calculator with this cool math race!

Think you need a special dehydrator to make your own fruit leather? You can actually make a delicious version of this popular kid's snack in your own oven.

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

Your child can turn cookie dough into a big pile of colorful painted fall leaves ready for eating!

For most second graders, a good secret code is just about irresistible. Here's one that builds math facts while you're at it!

Competitors go head-to-head only this time it's a race to figure out the lowest common multiple of two numbers; an important step to working with fractions!

Making decorative pottery is a great way to experiment with making patterns and texture on a traditionally smooth surface.

Have your child construct his own Christmas tree from construction paper while cutting, overlapping and measuring to create an adorable modern design.

For a fun activity that takes the dull out of decimals, show you child how to gain a better understanding of decimals...as dollar amounts!