3rd and 4th Grade Math Activities

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

In this fun science fair project, make two different scale models of our solar system using Astronomical Units and planets' relative size!

Play multiplication war, a fun card game, with your child and before long those annoying multiplication facts will be part of her mathematical skill set.

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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

Here's a super fun game to get in some place value practice with your child!

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.

Play tic-tac-toe and help your kid memorize multiplication facts!

Is your child struggling to remember the rules of place value? Here's a fun series of hands-on activities to help your child put the value in place value!

Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.

Learn to recognize symmetry by playing this game! The more you play, the better you'll get at recognizing this special characteristic many playing cards have.

In this science fair project, we'll use a liquid crystal thermometer to find out whether exercising makes a difference in people's temperature.

Play this fun basketball game to help your third grader master their multiplication tables.