“Home work” can be fun! Here are several fun Math in the Home games and activities that you can do with your grandchildren that they’ll enjoy so much they won’t know they’re learning! Everything you need can be found in your home.

A-Weigh We Go!
Kindergarten-Grade 1
Using simple bathroom and kitchen scales at home prepares children for using equipment in school to weigh and measure.
Observing, estimating, weighing and comparing are all essential mathematics skills.
What You Need

Bathroom or kitchen scales
Objects to weigh, such bags of sugar, flour, potatoes or onions; boxes of detergent …

Your home is full of opportunities to explore math with your grandchild and, at the same time, build his or her self-confidence and understanding of mathematical ideas. This is a chance for you and your grandchild to “talk math” that is, to communicate about math while discovering relationships between numbers. Being able to describe mathematical patterns and relationships, such as those between “addition and subtraction” or “odd and even numbers,” is important to later success in math.
The activities in this section are intended to be enjoyable and inviting and use …

How is your young grandchild doing in math? Is your grandchild having difficulty in grasping the concept of telling analog time? I’ve searched the web to save you time looking for interactive web sites for online math games that teach how to tell analog time. You’ll find links to four  six online games below the poem, “The Clock.”
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Here are a couple of activities grandparents can do to help your grandchild learn how to tell analog time:

To help your child or grandchild learn how to tell analog time, place an …

Learning to tell time using an analog clock helps promote a better understanding of number concepts. It is usually introduced at the end of first grade and re-introduced at the beginning of second grade. Are your grandchildren having difficulty learning to tell time using an analog clock? Are you wondering how you can help them learn to tell analog time?
When our children learned to tell time, analog clocks were the only clocks around; they were everywhere. Today, our grandchildren see digital clocks much more often than analog clocks. Digital time …

Look what Nana found! Grandparents, do you have grandchildren that want to learn how to play basketball or improve their skills? The 9 Magic Fundamentals downloads (beginner, comprehensive, advanced, conditioning) are designed to teach and show your grandchildren how to get the skills they need. Preview the videos with your grandchildren, find the one they want to start with and click on the link. Magic Fundamentals will take them from there! For just $2.99 each, you can’t go wrong!
Have fun and enjoy the game!

Pretend and Play Healthy Food Snack Set

Teach your child how to make good nutritional choices with this pretend play food set. Includes fruits and vegetables, milk, cheese, yogurt, pretzels and crackers, all packaged in a vinyl lunch bag. Milk carton measures 2.75″ x 3.25″. Made of durable plastic.

ABC Food Fun
When it comes to learning, serve it up farm-stand fresh with ABC Food Fun. Chock full of brain-building fun, this nifty set is a new and innovative challenge for budding Einsteins. The set contains 26 food-shaped magnets that display a food’s …

Save with Sale Items and Promotional Codes at the Crayola Store Online…
Just like any good grandmother, I had to visit the Crayola Online Store. The first thing I went to was at the very bottom of the list of categories…Sale Items, of course.

What Nana found were some good Crayola products on sale!

Follow this link to find them, too: On Sale at CrayolaStore.com and don’t forget to visit the Silly Putty Store.
You can get FREE Silly Putty with purchase of $15 worth of Total Tools products! Use promo code TOOLS07 at checkout.
Here’s another way you …