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Build your child's vocabulary by exploring and discussing spatial relationships during everyday activities such as building, rearranging, and ordering.

Lots of everyday objects can be fun, whether it's buttons, beans, or Lego blocks. Here's an activity that uses coins to build problem-solving strategies.

Challenge your 1st grader to skip count with this sequence game. Help him find missing numbers by figuring out the pattern and building on math skills!

Practice counting with this winter kindergarten art project! As your child sculpts a clay igloo, he will work on math and dexterity and learn about snow.

In this activity, students build a house of sticks, just like the second little pig in the classic story, The Three Little Pigs. Then, they program an educational robot to push down the house, much like the wolf who “blows the house down.”

Make math fun for your child by turning it into a game and challenging him to beat the calculator with this cool math race!

Build this game, and give your kid some hands-on practice ordering numbers. Soon your first grade kid will be Master of the number line!

In this activity, have your second grader practice measuring by finding the height, weight, and length of their most treasured toy!

Your child can count out six pumpkins or six crayons, but what is a six all by itself? ThatÃs a much harder concept to grasp.

Make a fun refrigerator graph with your first grader in order to help her develop those crucial graphing skills, while engaging with the whole family.

Get back into school with this exciting architecture exploration! In this craft activity your child will research, draw, and build his own school.

This hands-on activity practices skip counting, a key first grade math skill. But it's silly fun!

Help your child build ice cream cones as she practices her counting skills

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

First graders will love practicing addition with this fun math game.

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

This fun game helps children learn to estimate the most basic unit of time--a minute--without a clock.

Play a game of "restaurant" to reinforce real-world applications of counting and using money.

Compare and order numbers and introduce mathematical inequalities in this fun math card game.

Here's a math game for your preschooler or kindergartener that'll make number recognition as easy as a pizza pie!

First graders are learning basic addition and subtraction math facts. Practice in the sandbox with this fun outdoor math activity!

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

Pfeffernusse are spicy and sweet Christmas cookies from Germany. Make a batch of traditional pfeffernusse this holiday season.

The Kindergarten Personal Record Book makes measurement fun & active! Kids record their vital statistics from head to toe using unusual tools like paper clips.

Here's a hands-on activity that first grade use to help kids get a feel for equations. It uses popsicle sticks to practice addition and subtraction!

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

Sorting objects by size, color, shape, or function is an important concept in kindergarten math, and it's the perfect excuse for a little housekeeping!

Make practicing addition facts more fun and teach your child some helpful strategies with this spin off of the traditional "Go Fish" game.

These bean bag games are a fun and inexpensive way to keep your first grader learning! Work on social skills, coordination, math, or even spelling!

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