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Use familiar household items and decorations to turn estimation into a fun game!

Here's a hands-on activity you can do with your fourth-grader to practice measurement and directly apply the concept of area.

Try this entertaining and educational math activity that will teach your child how to add and subtract decimals.

Here's an activity that will get your child's attention with a back-to-school shopping spree. He'll use decimal skills to add, subtract, multiply, and divide!

Get estimating with this spooky activity that asks your young mathematician to rely on their problem-solving skills to figure out how many items they believe are in spooky Halloween jars!

Most parents probably wouldn't mind subtracting 8-9 years off their age. Here's a fun third grade subtraction activity that may do just that.

Kids learn how to manipulate additive and subtractive colors to send secret messages with red colored filters in this cool science fair project idea.

By using your child's own activity schedule, you can strengthen his understanding of elapsed time, and get him organized along the way!

Making holiday jars with your child will fill their heart with cheer! This activity asks your students to get into the holiday or winter spirit by filling a jar with something sweet, like marshmallows or another favorite treat. They can either gift this t

By taking math on a shopping trip your child will be practicing rounding, estimation and addition with a with a hands-on method.

Here's an interactive, fast-paced game that will make your fifth grader feel more comfortable with simple equations.

Ready for a game that's mostly about strategy with a little luck thrown in for good measure? Make math fact practice exciting and start rolling the dice!

This science fair project will help students learn about non-vascular plants, such as mosses.

This hands-on activity gives your child an opportunity to apply various strategies to solve a problem and to check if his answer makes sense.

Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

Race to create an equation in this game will help your child and his opponents get creative with addition, subtraction and multiplication.

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

This science fair project idea explores whether boiling and freezing water will have an effect on how much it weighs.

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

Science fair project in which you will attempt to throw a ball the greatest horizontal distance possible by using different angles.

Develop your child's hand-eye coordination in a fun and engaging way by challenging her to a game of Drop Catch.

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

Kids will get a kick out of shopping for discounted "kicks" with this creative math game that focuses on percentages.

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.

Science fair project which measures the shadow cast by a meter stick at various times in order to predict the circumference of the earth.

This entertaining magic trick will 'trick' kids into using math skill to impress their friends!

This simple way to help your child understand story problems begins as a quick activity and turns into a study tool for years to come!

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

This decimal game is a great way to help your child get familiar with how decimal values work.

Here's a simple, fun activity which will save you time and reinforce your child's math skills along the way.