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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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Building Place Values

Once your students are gaining a better understanding of the place values with the activity above, you can have them add on and build the number with blocks or popsicle sticks. Example: We will use a smaller number for this example. Create the number 7,869. Put the number 9 card in the box at the top of the mat above the “ones.” Put the numbers 6, 8, and 7 in their boxes at the top of the mat. Have students build the number to show the value of each digit with the place value blocks or popsicle sticks. Place nine “ones” (single sticks) in the ones box. Place six “tens” (bundles of ten sticks) in the tens box. Place eight “hundreds” (bundles of one hundred sticks or ten bundles of ten sticks) in the hundreds box. Put seven “thousands” (ten bundles of one hundred sticks) in the thousands box.
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Hopping Place Values

Have students create a number by placing the numeral cards in the boxes at the top of the floor mat.
Example: Create the number 2,345,678. Start at the ones column. Jump on the 8 and say, “8 ones.” Jump on the 7 and say “7 tens.” Jump on the 6 and say, “6 hundreds.” Jump on the 5 and say, “5 thousands.” Jump on the 4 and say, “4 ten thousands.” Jump on the 3 and say, “3 hundred thousands.” Jump on the 2 and say, “2 millions.”

Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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The Place Value Walk – Backwards

Stand on the mat on the millions column. Say, “millions.” Step to the hundred thousands, say, “hundred thousands.” Then to the ten thousands, say, “ten thousands,” and to the thousands, say, “thousands.” Continue to “ones.”

Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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The Place Value Walk

Stand on the mat on the ones column. Say, “ones.” Step to the tens, say, “tens.” Then to the hundreds, say, “hundreds,” and to the thousands, say, “thousands.” Continue to “millions.”

Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Multiplying

Have a student create a number on the mat. Then, have them multiply it by 100, 10, .10 or .01. Which way do the digits shift? Have them move the number cards to reflect the new number.

Grade 5
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Rounding

Have a student create a number on the mat. Then, have them round the numbers to all of the different place values. Use 0 cards for any place after the place value they are rounding to.
Grade 3: Round to 10s and 100s
Grade 4: Round to any place

Grade 3, Grade 4
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Expanded Form

Have a student create a number and jump it out on the mat. After reading the number, have them write each numeral’s value on an index card and place it above each numeral. For example, after reading the number 439 students would write 400 on a card and place it above the 4, 30 and place it above the 3, and 9 above the 9.

Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Clipboard Math

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

Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Adding or Subtracting Numbers

Create notecards, writing + and – with numbers up to the amount of digits you want them to add or subtract (+125, -56, etc.). Mix up the cards and place into a large hat or box (or in a pile on the floor if you do not have those items available).

Have a student create a number on the mat up to the amount of place values from which they are able to add or subtract. Have them select a card and add or subtract this number from the number displayed on the mat (depending on the plus or minus from the index card). Begin with the ones digit. Have them figure out the new number in the ones column and place it above the mat. Check to see if the tens digit needs to be modified, then the hundreds, continuing until they have completed the problem. Then, have them hop out their answer.

Examples using millions:
Build the number 435 then add 742 to the number. What number do you have now?
Build the number 439 then add 2,190 to the number. What number do you have now?
Build the number 4,367 then subtract the number 860. What number do you have now?

Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Bean Bag Decides

Have a student create a number and jump it out on the mat. Then, have them toss a bean bag on one of the number cards on the mat. Have the student remove the number underneath where the bean bag landed and replace it with a new number card. They will remake the number with the place value blocks and hop to read the new number.

Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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