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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

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 out the mixed number equivalent to 7/2, ask your student, “How many whole numbers are in 7/2?” Have your student step on 7/2. Ask how many whole numbers that they can see on the mat before 7/2? Ask how many fraction pieces are left over. Have your student count the halves after the whole number three up to 7/2. Your student will be able to count “one half” Then your student will see that the improper fraction 7/2 is the same as three and one half (½).
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 whole numbers, and the black lines at the top of each box – if they are at an equal height on the mat to other lines – show equivalency. 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 half” while hopping with one foot in the 1/2 box. Then have the student jump (with two feet) on the 2/2, clap, and say, “two halves.” Continue alternating between one foot and two-footed movements to the end of the mat. Repeat activity for quarters. 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

Let’s start off with a question: how many halves are in five?

Have your student count how many halves are in five by stepping on each half while counting their steps from one to ten. 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 ½ and says, “One half.” The student hops on 2/2 and says, “Two halves 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 twos, and can see that there are two halves in each of the whole numbers, then they can skip count to figure out how many halves are in the other numbers on the mat. To figure out how many halves are in three, have your student count 2-4-6. To figure out how many halves are in five, count 2-4-6-8-10. To figure out how many quarters are in fives, count 4-8-12-16-20.

When students become solid with multiplication, they can multiply to find the number of halves in any whole number. For example, to figure out how many halves are in four, they multiply two times four. To figure out how many quarters are in five, multiply four times five.

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

Grade 3
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Odds and Evens

Challenge your students to create a factor board with only even number products. Then, have them try to create one with only odd number products.

Grade 4, Grade 5
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Missing Number

Set up the mat with some products and some factors, leaving some spaces blank. Have the student figure out all the missing products and factors.

Grade 4, Grade 5
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Factoring

Place a number in the first product space. For example, 12. Then, have students find all the numbers that can be multiplied together to get a product of twelve. Add more 12s to product squares if they can find more than one set of factors. When finished, they can read the factors starting with the smallest and ending with the largest (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12). Pick a different product and repeat.

Grade 4
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Division Facts

This example uses factors of four and three. Have a student hop on the 12 and say, “12 divided by…” Then jump on the four and say, “Four is equal to…” Then hop on the three and say, “Three.” Repeat exercise for other division problems.

After your student has practiced division, add additional rows and columns of factor cards and repeat the above exercise.

Grade 4
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Factor Fun

To use this mat, place the factor cards in their places along the edges of the mat, multiply two of the factors to find the answers (the products), and place the product cards in the corresponding places in the middle.

Grade 4
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