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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!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Prove that the Earth is not flat. The objective of this science fair project is to measure the angle of the sun and calculate the circumference of the Earth.

This art exercise is great way to help kids learn how to see just like a professional painter, while experimenting and having fun with monochromatic color!

Science fair project that determines whether mass and weight are the same or different.

Help your child create a rebus message for a unique Father's Day card or poster; it's like a collage and encoded message all in one!

Teach kids about a fun way they can remember this more efficiently- the power of mnemonics. Kids will be amazed.

Use the holiday gift giving season as an excuse to give your fourth grader a valuable lesson in making and keeping a budget!