Playing the Number Sentence Game with your child gives him the opportunity to practice ordering and comparing numbers using symbols.

Try this card game to build math fact skills, like addition and subtraction, and have a great time, too!

First graders spend lots of time learning double digit numbers. Here's a "green" way to build skills and have some old time family fun, too.

Have your kid practice completing number patterns and then create her own patterns on the wings of a butterfly with this delightfully simple paper project.

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

Get a leg up on counting concepts with this project where art and math collide.

Ordinary drinking straws are fun for drinking juice and even for spitballs when you're not looking, but also fabulous for learning first grade math.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

In this hands-on craft project, kids will make an analog clock of their own, and then use it to learn how to tell time.

Declare a "Pocket Day" in your house and help your child practice his addition skills as he counts how many pockets the family is wearing that day!

The next time you've got a restless second grade earth scientist on your hands, use this experiment to demonstrate crystals and make a tasty treat, too!

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

This fall, bake some festive caramel apple cupcakes with your second grader and help her build her math skills while you're at it!

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.