3rd Grade Math Activities

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

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

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!

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!

Have your student draft a blueprint for a haunted house, and trick (or treat) them into learning about geometry in the process.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Liven up a lesson about graphing by helping your third grader compile a bar graph from his classmates' birthday data.

This science fair project looks one of the most important factors affecting seed germination: water. A fun and easy plant biology experiment for 3rd graders.

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

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

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!

Practice conversions within the metric system in this fun math card game for third graders.

In this matching activity, your kid will match the clock faces representing analog time with the numeric readings representing digital time.

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!

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.

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the effects of temperature on salt and water solutions, as they form crystals over time.

How does salinity affect the point at which water freezes? Kids will find out by performing this cool melting ice experiment.

Help your second grader to a better understanding of how to count and represent money with age old game of tic-tac-toe.

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

Run, jump, and skip your way to physical fitness as your exercise with dice! It's a perfect party or family game.

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

How does frost form? How fast does it form? Do this simple science project using a plastic glass, rock salt and some water to learn about deposition.

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