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Create beautiful spirals by drawing a straight line. This sounds crazy, but you can with a turntable (a record player or lazy susan), paper, and pen.

In this activity, learners explore a surprising method for calculating the mathematical constant pi, known as Buffon's Needle.

Wheels aren't the only things that can "roll" objects that are placed on top of it. Make non-intuitive shapes from cutouts and a compass to demonstrate this.

This math challenge, played with two players or a whole group, engages your problem solving skills.

Get a roll of pennies, throw them on the ground, then remove those that only show tails, and repeat with the ones left over.

In this activity, learners use a string and pair of scissors to find pi in the world all around them. Take the circumference of a round object with string and cut the string to that length.

In this activity, learners play a guessing game to explore classification.

In this math activity, learners create symmetrical designs for paper models of special blouses known as huipiles.

Make a camouflage cut-out animal! Using patterned paper or magazine pictures from around the house, use your craft skills to make a paper animal that blends into its background.

In this math activity, learners make and explore patterns using the letters in their names, a grid, and some colors.

In this math activity, learners find patterns in telephone numbers.

In this game, learners strategize to be the first player to make three in a row.

In this activity, learners find as many combinations of a hundred as they can using various puzzle pieces from a hundred square grid paper.