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Second Grade Math Kit

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Flashcard Capitals

Cover the state capitals on the mat. Create flashcards with each state capital. Have your students line up behind START HERE. You will stand at the end of the mat. Show the first student one of the flashcards. That student will hop to the block with the matching state/capital. Continue through the cards and repeat.
Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Hop the Capitals

Cover the capital names on the floor mat. Have a student hop on the mat as they say the capital names. Have them check if they have the correct answer as they continue down the mat.

Option 2: Have a student hop on the mat without looking at the blocks. A spectator will watch the student’s feet and say the state name out loud to the “hopper.” The hopper will then be asked to name the capital without looking down.

Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Hop the States

Have students begin on START HERE. Have them hop from state to state, announcing the state and capital as they land.

Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Appendix
Square number cards
Square Number worksheet

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Pattern

Have students discover the pattern that makes squared numbers. Have them start by finding the difference between 1 and 4 (3), and writing 3 on a paper and placing it halfway between the 1 and 4. Then find the difference between 4 and 9 (5) and write 5 on a paper and place it halfway between 4 and 9. Continue doing so for the rest of the mat. Then have students study the pattern that is made and discuss its significance.

Grade 4, Grade 5
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Make It

Have small tiles, blocks, or square pieces of paper next to the mat. Have students take turns making each square next to its corresponding block. This visually demonstrates that these two numbers make a square and shows the square root clearly as the length of one side of the square. Example: Make an 8 x 8 square out of tiles next to the 64 block.

Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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What is the Square Root?

Ask a student what the square root of one of the squares is on the mat. They jump down the mat to find the answer and then say it out loud. For example, “What is the square root of 289?” The student would jump to the block ‘289’ and answer 17.

Grade 4, Grade 5
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Bean Bag

Have a student throw a bean bag onto the mat and jump to the square it lands on. The student will say the information on the square out loud.

Grade 4, Grade 5
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How Many Groups?

Have a student throw a bean bag onto a box on the floor mat. Ask them how many groups there are of that number. Then ask them how much that number equals when it is squared. For example, the student tosses the bean bag on to the 20. The student will answer, “20 groups. 20 groups of 20 equals 400.”

Grade 4, Grade 5
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Square Root Hop

As students jump the mat, ask students to announce the square root of each number. For example, “Nineteen is the square root of three hundred and sixty-one!”

Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 8
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