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PEMDAS Hop
This is the PEMDAS Hop floor mat. This colorful mat provides a fun way to learn the orders of operations, including parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction. Each box contains the operation as well as the operational symbol used during a PEMDAS equation.
Grade 4 - Grade 6
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Hop the Mat
Have students hop down the mat saying the name of each operation as they hop on the corresponding block.Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6Abbreviation Hop
Have students hop down the mat saying the abbreviation (P, E, M, D, A, S) as they hop on the corresponding block.Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6Symbol Hop
Hold up one of the symbols on the mat (printables found in the following pages). Have a student hop to that symbol on the mat and say what place the...Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6Wild Worksheets
Students will look at a number sentence on a worksheet. The student will jump on the first block (parenthesis) and look to see if there are any in their problem....Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6Bean Bag Decides
The student will throw a bean bag on the mat. Then, the student will give a number sentence that coincides with the operation on which the bean bag landed.Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6Problem Solving
Give your students a math problem. You can write them on note cards or just say them out loud. Then, have the students decide what they will do first and...Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6Mathematical Terms
Use the mat to practice mathematical terms. Have students jump down the mat and say, “Parentheses First, Exponents=Value, Multiplication=Product, Division=Quotient, Addition=Sum, Subtraction=Difference.”Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6Identify
Ask the students to identify parts of an expression using mathematical terms (sum, term, product, factor, quotient, coefficient). Give the student a mathematical term and the student will jump on...Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
