Supplement Me
Material: Yardsticks Have a student make an angle with the yardsticks on the mat. Ask a second student what the supplementary angle is to the first. Do this with several different starting angles.
Make Angles
Material: Yardsticks Give students different degree measurements and they will make them on the mat with either yardsticks or their limbs.
Right/Acute/Obtuse
Material: Yardsticks Ask students to make an acute/obtuse/right angle. Have several students make varying acute and obtuse angles. Challenge a student to make the smallest acute angle, or the largest acute angle, the smallest obtuse angle, and if they can figure out what the largest measure of an obtuse angle would be.
How Many Degrees?
Material: Yardsticks Have students practice reading a protractor by explaining how to place one side of the angle pointing to the 0 degree mark and the other side of the angle on the measurement requested. Ask students to make different degree angles using either their limbs or yardsticks.
What is a Degree?
Take time to observe the mat and all of its small marks. Ask students to count how many small marks there are. Ask students what shape the protractor is (half of a circle). Ask how many degrees would be in a full circle if this is half and it has 180. Notice that there is […]
What is an Angle, Anyway?
Optional Material: Yard Sticks Have students take turns making angles on the mat using their limbs or yardsticks. After one makes an angle ask another to make one larger or smaller than it.
Division
Make several of the fraction image that you see on the mat (rectangles) on pieces of paper that are equivalent sizes. Have a student toss two bean bags onto the mat, find the equivalent paper fractions and find how many of one fits into the other. For example, if the bean bags land on 1/2 […]
Arrays
Use blocks or a different manipulative to make an array for each multiplication fact.
Division
Ask students to hop down the mat towards zero while dividing each number in a lone square by the number below it while reciting the number sentence. e.g. Hops on one foot on 25, “25 divided by,” hops to one 5, “5 is”, hops to the other five, “5!”
Ordered Pairs
MATERIALS: Add/Subtract Mat, small markers, optional: Cartesian Coordinate Mat Have your students start off the mat at “0”. Add five and step on that number and place a marker on it. Continue throughout the mat. Then, do the same with another multiple, such as 10. Where they have placed two markers, have them write the […]
