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.

Additive Comparisons

Use the Add/Subtract mat to solve word problems involving multiplying or dividing. Mark off the multiples of a factor given with markers on the mat. Add the multiple the number of times given in the problem. Point out that they just multiplied by adding repetitively.

Grade 4

Arithmetic Patterns

Have your students begin by starting off the mat at “0”. Add five, step on that number, and place a marker on it. Continue throughout the mat marking and adding five. After marking each multiple, step off the mat and discuss the pattern (if any) the markers make. (Can be done with any multiple.)

Grade 3, Grade 4

Estimation

Materials(s): Count to 10 Mat, Add/Subtract Mat

Using the Count to 10 Mat and the Add/Subtract Nat, give students addition questions to answer, first by estimating (Count to 10) and then exact (Add/Subtract).

For example, ask, “What is 31 + 68”. First, they round both to the closest 10 and add getting 100. Then ask them to figure out the problem exactly by hopping on the Add/Subtract mat.

Grade 3, Grade 4

Money Madness

Materials: 4 round baskets (e.g. laundry baskets), Add/Subtract Mat or Hundred Number Grid, Large Laminated Coins, or Play Money

  1. Lay large paper money/coins on the floor mat. (Use the money your students are currently working on counting.)
  2. Divide all participants into four groups. Place four round baskets outside each corner of the mat.
  3. One person from each team begins by holding a bean bag. Another person on each team is designated as the ‘banker’ who holds the money.
  4. The teacher will say, “Ready, set, go!” The team members with the bean bag move onto the mat and stand on a piece of money. Then they take their beanbag and aim at the laundry basket. If they make their shot, their team keeps the money. They pick it up and hand it to the banker.
  5. If they do not make the bean bag into the basket, they will hand the bean bag to the next person without keeping the money.
  6. If the person makes their shot at the basket, they will hand the bean bag to the next person on their team and repeat the activity. 
  7. The process continues until all the money is gone.
  8. Each team then has a turn counting out their money. Have the students start at the beginning of the floor mat and jump through the numbers while they count their money.
  9. The winner is the team with the most money.

Download Digital Coins: Pennies | Nickels | Dimes | Quarters

Grade 2

Time Conversion Minutes to Hours

Write several different amounts of minutes on index cards (in multiples of 60). Have students take turns picking a card. They then use the mat to convert the number of minutes to hours. Have them start above the 12 on the mat and state how many minutes are on their card. Then, walk the full perimeter and say how many laps they’ve completed (= number of hours) and the time minus 60 minutes when they get back to the start. Have them do this as many times as their card says, subtracting 60 each time they complete a lap.

For 180 minutes, they would start by saying “180 minutes,” walk around once – “One hour, 120 minutes left.” Twice – “Two hours, 60 minutes”. Three times – “3 hours, 0 minutes left.” Say, “One hundred eighty minutes equals 3 hours.”

Grade 5

Time Conversion Hours to Minutes

Write several different amounts or numbers of hours on index cards. Have students take turns picking a card. They then use the mat to convert the number of hours to minutes. Have them start above the 12 on the mat, walk the full perimeter, and say, “60 minutes” when they get back to the start. Have them do this as many times as their card says, adding 60 each time they complete a lap.

For 4 hours, they would walk around once – “60 minutes.” Twice – “120 minutes.” Three times – “180 minutes.” Four times – “240 minutes.” Say, “Four hours is two hundred forty minutes.”

Grade 5

Triangle Match

Have a student toss a bean bag onto the mat (cover all but the first three squares). Then have three students make a triangle of the type it lands on by lying on the floor.

Grade 4

Mystery Dinosaur

Give clues and have the students find the mystery dinosaur on the mat.

Clues could include

  • Appearance
  • letters in the names
  • the meaning of the name
  • how many letters the name has
  • the longest name
  • the shortest name
PreK, Kindergarten

Alphabetical Order

Have students jump on each dinosaur in alphabetical order.

Grade 2, Grade 3

Letters

Have the students jump down the mat as they say the first letter of each dinosaur’s name.

PreK, Kindergarten

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