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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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One Change Leads to Another

Write + 1000, +100, +10, +1, -1000, -100, -10, -1 on notecards. Mix up the cards and add to a large hat or box (or in a pile on the floor if you do not have those items available). Have a student select a card and add or subtract place value blocks (at the bottom of the mat) according to the index card. Then have the student change the number cards (at the top of the mat) accordingly to create the new number.
Grade 2, Grade 3
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Adding Hundreds

Hand a student a hundreds block. Have the student figure out where to put the hundreds block on the mat. Have the student figure out how the numerals at the top of the mat change after one hundred has been added to the hundreds place. Continue to give the student hundreds until there are ten hundreds blocks. Ask them, “What happens to the thousands place? What happens to the hundreds place?” (Answer: The numeral in the hundreds place becomes zero and the numeral in the thousands place increases by one.) Modify the activity and repeat by subtracting hundreds.

Grade 2, Grade 3
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Adding Tens

Hand a student a tens block. Have the student figure out where to put the tens block on the mat. Have the student figure out how the numerals at the top of the mat change after ten has been added to the tens place. Continue to give the student tens until there are ten tens blocks. Ask them, “What happens to the hundreds place? What happens to the tens place?” (Answer: The numeral in the tens place becomes zero and the numeral in the hundreds place increases by one.) Modify the activity and repeat by subtracting tens.

Grade 2
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Adding Ones

Hand a student a ones block. Have the student figure out where to put the ones block on the mat. Have the student figure out how the numerals at the top of the mat change after one has been added to the ones place. Continue to give the student ones until there are ten one blocks. Ask them, “What happens to the tens place? What happens to the ones?” (Answer: The numeral in the tens place becomes 1 and the numeral in the ones place becomes 0.) Modify the activity and repeat by subtracting ones.

Grade 1
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Find the Place

Have a student create a number on the mat. Instruct the student to pick up the card in the thousands place, in the tens place, etc. Continue until they have identified all of the place values in that number.

Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Build and Jump Combo

Combine the Building Place Values and Jump out the Number activities.
Have students create a number with the number cards. Then, have them build the number using place value blocks or popsicle sticks. Once they have finished building the number, have them go through the Jump out the Number activity. As they say each number, have another student check the blocks/popsicle sticks to make sure they have the correct amount! If they both have the same number, the student counting the blocks/sticks will call back, “Check!”

Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Jump out the Number

Create a number on the mat, going up to the place value you are working on in class. Have students jump out the number.
Example: 5,608
Jump on the 5. Say, 5. Jump on the THOUSAND. Say, “thousand.”
Jump on the 6. Say, 6. Jump on the HUNDRED. Say, “hundred:”
Jump OVER the zero. (Emphasize that the zero’s are skipped and not said.)
Jump on the 8. Say, “and eight.”

Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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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 869.
Put the number 9 card in the box at the top of the mat above the “ones.” Put the numbers 6 and 8 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.

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 5,678. 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.”

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 thousands column and say, “thousands.” Continue backwards to “ones.”

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