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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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Make it

Have students take turns jumping on different shapes on the mat while other students make the chosen shape with either their bodies or popsicle sticks.

Grade 3, Grade 4
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Right Angles

Manipulative Needed: Book

Have students observe and point out which quadrilaterals have right angles. Use a book corner to see if they are correct. Discuss that the shapes with four right angles are called rectangles and that a square is a rectangle with equal length sides.

Grade 4
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Similarities

Have students observe all of the different shapes on the mat. Ask what they have in common. Explain that closed polygons with four sides are all called quadrilaterals.

Grade 3, Grade 4
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Shaping Up

Manipulative Needed: Popsicle Sticks

Have students use popsicle sticks to add other shapes to the ones on the mat to make new shapes and images. E.g. A student might add a triangle to the top of the square to make a house.

Grade 1
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Sentence Coordinates

Do Word Coordinates, using words (out of sequence) that will make a sentence. Have each student that jumps to a word to stay by the word. Ask the class to determine the sequence that will make a sentence. Everyone then says the sentence 3-5x, jumping/clapping once for each word.

Grade 2, Grade 3
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Word Coordinates

This combines math and literacy. Make two sets of index cards with the numbers 1-10. (Each set should be a different color.) Stand at the bottom left corner of the grid. Explain the concept of coordinates (“across” and “up”) and the numbering system of coordinates (ex.: “may”=1,1 and “it”=10,10). Give a student one card of each color and have him find the word at that coordinate. The instructions would be “Find the word at 3,5” or “Find the word at 4,6.” The student should jump to the horizontal coordinate and put the number card on it. Then he should jump to the vertical coordinate, put the card on it, and say the word at that coordinate. There is an attached worksheet for this activity.

Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
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“Skip Counting” by 3’s and 4’s

This is a progression of “Skip Counting” by 2’s and 5’s because the rows of 10 are not multiples of either 3 or 4. You need to explain to the students that there will be leftover numbers at the end that they can’t use.

Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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“Skip Counting” by 2’s and 5’s

Have students on the left side of the mat. Tell the student by row 1 that he/she will be stepping on each word in the row, saying either “one” or “two” all the way across. Direct the student as follows: “Step on the first word and say ‘one.’ Step on the second word and say ‘two.’ Read the word you’re on. Jump on it 3x while saying it. Now step on the next word and say ‘one.’ Step on the following word and say ‘two.’ Read the word you’re on. Jump on it 3x while saying it. Continue to the end of the row.” Ask different students to follow this procedure for as many rows as you wish. (Grades K-1)

Do the same activity but counting by fives instead. (Grades 1-2)

Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
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The Dice Have It

This is a variation on “The Tens Have It.” Distribute word cards to a few students and ask them to identify and then jump to their words. Ask another student to roll a die while a different student calls “plus” or “minus” (or rolls a +/- die.) The students advance toward the bottom of the mat or retreat toward the top of the mat by that many steps. They take turns jumping on their words 5x while saying them.

Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
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The Tens Have It

Write +10, -10, +20, and -20 on index cards. Toss a bean bag towards the center of the mat. Have a student travel to it and then clap 3x while saying the word. Pull one of the cards and tell the student to advance or retreat from that point by that many steps, moving horizontally across the mat. For example, +10 means take 10 steps along the rows, heading toward the bottom of the mat. Likewise, -20 means take 20 steps along the rows, heading toward the top of the mat. When he/she lands on this new word, the student jumps on it 5x while saying it.
(+/-10 = Grades K-2; +/-20= Grades 2-4)

Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4
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