How
fast does your heart beat? How many Fridays are Friday the thirteenths?
Which shape holds the most popcorn? These are some of the family math
challenges described on this site. Click on Challenge Index to see
a full list of these activities. They all have hints to help you solve
them, and most have hands-on activities too.
Developed
by the National Science Foundation and Time magazine for kids, this
site provides lots of fun activities and experiments that families
can do together--things like building a star clock and making a
thermometer. The site also explains basic science behind the activities.
To get to these activities, click on the current volume or scroll
through past volumes. Some of the experiments provided here may
require a parent's supervision.
This
site has a number of activities that adults and children can do
together to explore money management skills (budgeting, saving,
spending wisely, building credit and paying off debts). The site
also includes some tools like financial calculators. Be sure to
click on the link to "Teaching Kids about Money" when you visit
this site.
This
page is a reading kit for adults and kids in grades 3-6. Some of the
activities that parents and children can do together are "In Laughing
Order: The Comic Strip" and "Tall Tale Retell."
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