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Bean Bag Questions

Have a student toss two bean bags to create and solve an addition or subtraction problem.

Count to 1,000

Have a student toss a bean bag onto the mat. Have them start on that number. Have them figure out how many hops (or hundreds) it takes to get to 1,000.

Hop the Mat by 200

Have students hop across the mat skipping every other block. How many hops does it take?

Hop the Mat by 300

Hop across the mat skipping 200 (two blocks) in between. How many hops does it take?

Dice Decide

Have a student roll two dice. If a three is rolled, the student stands on that many hundreds on the mat (300). Then, have them add or subtract the amount (in hundreds) shown on the second dice.

Word Problems

Give students word problems verbally as they use the mat to help figure out the answer. Examples: If Sarah picks 200 apples and Adam picks 400, how many did they pick all together? John has 1,000 beads and loses 400 of them; how many beads does he have now?

Rounding

Create notecards with numbers ranging from 100 to 1,000. Have a student select a card. The student will round that number to the closest hundred and hop to that number.

Appendix has number cards listed

Homophone Hop

Have students take turns hopscotching down the mat and calling out the words as they land on each.

Crawl and Trace

Have students crouch down on their knees on the floor mat. Starting with the word buy,’ have a student trace each letter of the word with two fingers while spelling the word out loud. Continue through the rest of the mat. Make sure students understand that each grouping of three words is a homophone.