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Graph are a great way to organize information. Your child will get to practice graphing by creating a bar graph and a pictorial graph of her friend's names.

This St. Patrick's day, stretch your third grader's social studies and math skills with this fun, cooperative learning game.

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

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

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

Create a fun hands-on game to practice long division, using magnetic numbers on a fridge.

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

This activity is a great starting point for practicing mental math because it is quick, easy and involves only simple addition facts.

Your third grader will be amazed at the explosive combination of vinegar and baking soda in these chocolate volcano cupcakes with white chocolate "lava."

Introduce decimals and place value with this fun math card game for fourth grade students.

Help your child apply his math skills the next time you cook a family meal similar to one you'd buy at a restaurant.

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.

This science fair project idea teaches how the gases and pollution in the air affect the earth's atmosphere temperature.

Defend your cards in this multiplication math game! Your kid will enjoy using strategy to build equations and win points in this activity.

Sharing can be a challenge, and division doubly so! Practice halving numbers in this competitive card game.

Add these fun chocolate Groundhog Day cupcakes to your holiday desert recipe repertoire! They're fun to make with your kids and a delicious winter snack.

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

Do you think heat can affect a plant's growth rate?

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

Work on division with remainders in this fun fourth grade math board game.

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

Play a math logic and critical thinking game using a deck of cards. Use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in this fun activity.

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.

Analyze this simple betting game with your fourth grade student in order to discuss probability.

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!

Practice of math facts is usually limited to drill sheets and flashcards. But kids are more likely to tune in to math facts if practice is presented as a game!

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

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

Race to double numbers in this competitive card game. Try one-digit or two-digit numbers, or more!