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Okay, engaging in a graphing activity may sound ho-hum, but if you use fun data, it changes the picture entirely.

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

Practice plotting points on a graph when learning is wrapped up in a game. This one will help your child practice the concept of ordered pairs.

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

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.

In this plant habitats activity, children play the role of an ecologist and take surveys of different areas to discover the best habitat for dandelions.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

By tracking nutritional information from candy wrappers, your teen can use statistics to find which treats offer the fewest tricks on Halloween!

Future whistleblowers can learn about product safety standards with this exercise in writing and researching.

Your child can brush up on her math skills by charting the length of time that each candle on the menorah takes to burn.

Here are three activities you can do at home and around town to bring algebra into your daily lives.

Analyze this simple betting game with your fourth grade student in order to discuss probability.

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

How sensitive is your skin? Here's a fourth grade science experiment that lets your child figure it out.

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.

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

Work on finding means and medians in this fifth grade math card game.

Test your skills as a weather forecaster, and learn some science terms on the way!

This first grade science activity is great for winter! Your child will grow and observe her own amaryllis bulb, keeping a journal of her scientific findings.

In this challenge, students are tasked with creating an insulated cup that will keep beverages colder for longer than a regular cup.

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

Here's an activity that uses second-semester high school algebra to determine which pizza gives you the most bang for your appetite. Here's how to get started:

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

Help your child learn one of the most beautiful mathematical expressions in nature as she uses the Fibonacci sequence to create a "spiral of beauty."