4th and 5th Grade Math Activities

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

Science fair project in which you will examine how crystals are formed by creating your own crystal using charcoal briquettes, salt, and ammonia.

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.

Competitors go head-to-head only this time it's a race to figure out the lowest common multiple of two numbers; an important step to working with fractions!

Does your fifth grader need a study buddy for geometry? Forget about a tutor. Help him make his own geometry dictionary!

Draw your own beautiful mandala with this easy technique that ensures symmetrical results every time!

Want to ensure that your child's math knowledge stays sharp? This mean, median, and mode game is the perfect way to reinforce these essential math concepts.

Simplify fractions with your child in this fast-paced math card game.

Little scientists will make inferences about hearing loss, pitch, and frequency in this great science fair idea that puts the human ear to the test.

For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

This Pysanky egg-decorating activity is perfect for young artists. Bring a little color and creativity to any holiday with this traditional Ukrainian craft.

This activity with add some fun and education to long car trips. Perfect for family vacations!

Learn how to make a hygrometer to measure relative humidity in this project. Make a sling psychrometer hygrometer with gauze, thermometers, and a bottle.

Check out this game that provides an enjoyable way of demonstrating how recorded results can be expressed in whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.

Try a new approach to working with variables and equations by playing this tic-tac-toe game with your math student.

In this cool project, create a lighted, scale model of the different layers of the Sun, including the core, radiation and convection zones, and photosphere.

Kids will create their own version of Richard Feynman's rubber band heat engine to learn about thermodynamics with this cool science fair project idea.

Check out this dice game perfect for teaching your savvy kid the fundamentals of probability.

Chlorine and chloramine are added to our tap water to kill harmful microorganisms. What is the best way to filter these disinfectants in your drinking water?

Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen math skills using high and low temperature data, and become a master temperature tracker!

Practice math and social studies skills with this fun game based on the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

Have your child observe, measure and record the amount of space objects occupy, and you'll have an inside space explorer on your hands in no time!

In this science fair project, we learn how air molecules move as a result of density, convection, and air currents.

In this science experiment, observe convection currents forming and learn about how heat energy moves in liquids from hot to cooler areas through convection.

All you need are pencils, paper and some scissors to get started on this easy and fun game to review astronomy information, or other types of study concepts.

Here's a fun, geometric puzzle activity that will capture your child's interest and strengthen his number awareness and graphing skills.

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!

Exponents can be tricky to learn. Fortunately this game provides plenty of multiplication practice for your math student!

Making metric conversions is a difficult concept to master. Get in some extra practice by playing this Tic-Tac-Toe game with your learner.