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Second Grade Math Kit

Find the activities below that correspond with the materials found in our Second Grade Math Kit. Please select the material before selecting the grade to make sure your search results only provide activities for the mats in your Second Grade Math Kit.

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Fractions Greater Than One and the Pictures

Notice that this floor mat has pictures that represent the whole and fraction parts of each number. The fraction 8/3 has two squares totally filled in with black and the third square has two of the three parts filled in with black. Have your students use the shaded squares to help their comprehension of fractions.
Grade 4, Grade 5
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Fractions Greater Than One

This floor mat offers a visual opportunity for students to understand the relationships between fractions greater than one and mixed numbers. For example, to have your student figure the mixed number equivalent to 8/3 ask your student, “How many whole numbers are in 8/3?”

Have your student step on 8/3. Ask how many whole numbers that they can see on the mat before 8/3? Ask how many fraction pieces are leftover. Have your student count the thirds after the whole number two up to 8/3. Your student will be able to count “two thirds” Then your student will see that the improper fraction 8/3 is the same as two and two thirds (2/3).

Grade 4, Grade 5
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Equivalent Fraction Hop

Have a student select a fraction and stand on it. Then, have the student hop on all of its equivalent fractions. The activity should go on until the student has reached all fractions equivalent to the one on which they started. Then, have them select another fraction or have the next student take a turn.

Students might not realize right away that the colors/shades correspond with equivalent fractions. If they do not pick up on it, ask them to look closer at the colors on the mat and see if they can find the pattern.

Grade 4
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Bean Bag Decides

Throw a bean bag on the Fraction Walk Floor Mat. Hop up the mat to the bean bag, alternating between one and two-footed movements. Pick up the bean bag and say the fraction underneath where the bean bag landed.

Grade 3
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Hopscotch the Numbers

Have your student start on START HERE. Have the student say “one third” while hopping with one foot in the 1/3 box. Then have the student jump (two feet) on the 2/3, clap and say “ two thirds.” Continue alternating between one foot and two-footed movements to the end of the mat. Repeat activity for halves and sixths. Be sure that your student says the fractions correctly. Tell your student the fractions if your student doesn’t know them.

Grade 3
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The Fraction Walk

How many thirds in 5?

Have your student count how many thirds are in 5 by stepping on each third while counting their steps from one to fifteen. If your student’s counting is out of sync with their steps, have them go back and start over. To help them emphasize each whole number, you can have them hop to the middle box after reaching the fraction that equals a whole. The student hops on 1/3 and says, “one third.” The student hops on 2/3 and says,”two thirds.” The student hops on 3/3 and says, “three thirds equal one whole” as they hop to the one. Continue with this pattern until they reach five.

Knowledge of skip counting helps students understand fractions. If your student knows how to skip count by three, and they can see that there are three thirds in each of the whole numbers, then they can skip count to figure out how many thirds are in the other numbers on the mat. To figure out how many thirds are in three, have your student count 3-6-9. To figure out how many thirds are in five, count 3-6-9-12-15. To figure out how many sixths are in 24, count 6-12-18-24.

When students become solid with multiplication, they can multiply to find the number of thirds in any whole number. For example, to figure out how many thirds are in 4, they multiply 3 times 4. To figure out how many sixths are in 5, multiply 6 times 5.

Have them do the same activity with sixths once they are comfortable with halves.

Grade 3
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Clipboard Math

Clip a math worksheet on a clipboard. Have your students figure out the answers to the fraction problems by walking or hopping on the mat.

Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Bean Bag Multiplication and Division

Have a student toss two bean bags onto the mat. Then, have the student multiply or divide the numbers. Have them write their answer both as a fraction greater than one and as a mixed number.

Using small whiteboards or paper on a clipboard is a great way to have students solve their problems while interacting with the floor mat.

Grade 5
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Bean Bag Addition and Subtraction

Have a student toss two bean bags onto the mat. Then, have the student add or subtract the numbers. To make this activity easier, make sure they toss the bean bags in the same column (only halves or only fourths). To make this activity more difficult, have them toss one bean bag on the halves column and one on the fourths column and find the common denominator to solve. Have them write their answer both as a fraction greater than one and a mixed number.

Using small whiteboards or paper on a clipboard is a great way to have students solve their problems while interacting with the floor mat.

Grade 4, Grade 5
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Fractions Greater Than One and the Pictures

Notice that this floor mat has pictures that represent the whole and fraction parts of each number. The fraction 7/2 has three squares filled in with black and half of the fourth square filled in with black. Have your students use the shaded squares to help their comprehension of mixed fractions. You can use blocks or other objects to build these mixed fractions.

Grade 4, Grade 5
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