math tips
Easy ways to improve your child's math skills.
Math activity: Weather graph
How you can help at home: In this activity your child observes the weather and makes a bar graph.
Your second grader and math
Building on the basics, second graders should be able to add, count, write whole numbers up to 1,000, and much more.
7 ways to raise a financially literate child
With schools focused on core subjects, there isn't a lot of room for teaching financial literacy. If you want your child to be smart about money, it's up to you.
Math activity: Number sense
How you can help at home: This number-sense game played with dice helps your first grader build math concepts such as greater than and less than.
Raising a financially intelligent child: focus on allowances
The authors of The Financially Intelligent Parent recommend giving your child an allowance - but don't tie it to chores.
Raising a financially savvy child
Our readers offer their advice about how to teach money management to children.
Activity: Food fractions
Try these tasty and creative ways to review fractions with your child.
Take a shape walk
In this activity, you and your child look for shapes outside.
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