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Trivia Hop

Ask students trivia questions about a state on your mat/s. Have them hop on the block of the state when they answer. Although this information might not be essential to the student’s curriculum, it’s a fun and stimulating way to use the mat. Examples: Which state is known as the sunshine state? What is the […]

Wild Worksheets

Have students use the mat to help them answer the questions on the worksheets in the following pages.

Appendix includes State Cards and Worksheets

Hop the Mat – Square Number

Have students start on START HERE. The students will hop down the mat as they read through the multiplication problems that create each square number. For example: Hop on the first block. “One times one equals one.” Hop on the second block. “Two times two equals two.” etc.

Hop the Mat – Addition

Have students start on START HERE. The students will jump down the mat as they read through the addition problems that create each square number. For example: Hop on the first block. “One.” Hop on the second block. “Two plus two equals four.” Hop on the third block. “Three plus three plus three equals nine.”

Square Root Hop

As students jump the mat, ask students to announce the square root of each number. For example, “Nineteen is the square root of three hundred and sixty-one!”

How Many Groups?

Have a student throw a bean bag onto a box on the floor mat. Ask them how many groups there are of that number. Then ask them how much that number equals when it is squared. For example, the student tosses the bean bag on to the 20. The student will answer, “20 groups. 20 […]

Bean Bag

Have a student throw a bean bag onto the mat and jump to the square it lands on. The student will say the information on the square out loud.

What is the Square Root?

Ask a student what the square root of one of the squares is on the mat. They jump down the mat to find the answer and then say it out loud. For example, “What is the square root of 289?” The student would jump to the block ‘289’ and answer 17.

Make It

Have small tiles, blocks, or square pieces of paper next to the mat. Have students take turns making each square next to its corresponding block. This visually demonstrates that these two numbers make a square and shows the square root clearly as the length of one side of the square. Example: Make an 8 x […]