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Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

Incorporate some math and science thinking into your annual fall fun with this pumpkin investigation activity! Your child will have a blast investigating various ways of measuring pumpkins, making estimates, taking measurements, and recording their findin

Bring out your child’s creative side with this fun Halloween-themed craft.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

What’s the best part of fall? Pumpkins! Use this easy recipe to help your child make some delicious smelling pumpkin play dough. They can use their math skills to measure and mix and then have hours of fun playing!

Engage your children with this fun fall activity that integrates math and science. First, your child will excavate to find leaves. Next, they'll examine them to determine the colors. Then, your child will graph their findings.

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!

It’s the season for falling leaves, fall colors, and corn! Use this easy activity to help your child make some amazing paintings. They can use their math skills to design patterns for cards, paper, presents and more!

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

This activity will further your child's ability to interpret graphs and apply math skills in a real-world situation.

Here's a super fun game to get in some place value practice with your child!

This kinesthetic game will help your child practice rounding and get the adrenaline rushing!

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

This activity turns your kid into the family weatherman. Plus, it teaches him to collect data and begin to understand graphing.

You don't need to spend big bucks to buy a pre-boxed version of a matching game at the store. You can make your own easily. Here's how:

With this activity, you child will get an opportunity to apply skills she's learning in second grade math, and maybe learn something new about Dad.

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

Here's an interactive, fast-paced game that will make your fifth grader feel more comfortable with simple equations.

One way to "trick" your child into getting extra practice with one-step equations is to play a variation of the classic game, tic tac toe.

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!

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.

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

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!

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.