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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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Fractions Greater Than One and the Pictures

Notice that this floor mat has pictures that represent the whole and fraction parts of each number. The fraction 8/3 has two squares totally filled in with black and the third square has two of the three parts filled in with black. Have your students use the shaded squares to help their comprehension of fractions.
Grade 4, Grade 5
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Fractions Greater Than One

This floor mat offers a visual opportunity for students to understand the relationships between
fractions greater than one and mixed numbers. For example, to have your student figure the mixed number equivalent to 8/3 ask your student, “How many whole numbers are in 8/3?”
Have your student step on 8/3. Ask how many whole numbers that they can see on the mat before 8/3? Ask how many fraction pieces are left over. Have your student count the thirds after the whole number two up to 8/3. Your student will be able to count “two thirds” Then your student will see that the improper fraction 8/3 is the same as two and two thirds (2/3).

Grade 4, Grade 5
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The Fraction Walk

How many thirds in five?

Have your student count how many thirds are in 5 by stepping on each third while counting their steps from one to fifteen. If your student’s counting is out of sync with their steps, have them go back and start over. To help them emphasize each whole number, you can have them hop to the middle box after reaching the fraction that equals a whole. The student hops on 1/3 and says, “one third.” The student hops on 2/3 and says,”two thirds.” The student hops on 3/3 and says, “three thirds equal one whole” as they hop to the one. Continue with this pattern until they reach five. Knowledge of skip counting helps students understand fractions. If your student knows how to skip count by three, and they can see that there are three thirds in each of the whole numbers, then they can skip count to figure out how many thirds are in the other numbers on the mat. To figure out how many thirds are in three, have your student count 3-6-9. To figure out how many thirds are in five, count 3-6-9-12-15. To figure out how many sixths are in 24, count 6-12-18-24. When students become solid with multiplication, they can multiply to find the number of thirds in any whole number. For example to figure out how many thirds are in 4, they multiply 3 times 4. To figure out how many sixths are in 5, multiply 6 times 5.
Have them do the same activity with sixths once they are comfortable with thirds.

Grade 3
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Matching

Write all of the percentages/fractions/decimals from the mat on note cards. Cover up all of the examples of one type of number, such as all of the percentages, all of the decimals, or all of the fractions on the mat. Have students take turns matching a notecard to its place on the mat. For example, if you cover all the percentages on the mat, write them all on note cards. A student may pick a card that says 75% and lay it onto the ¾ block on the mat.

Grade 6, Grade 7
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Equivalence

Cover up all of the examples of one type of number, such as all of the percentages, all of the decimals, or all of the fractions on each block of the mat. Have students figure out what each would be based on the other information given on the block. For example, for the ½ block, cover the decimal and ask the students what the equivalent decimal would be to one half/50%.

Grade 6, Grade 7
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Percentage

Use this mat to help students understand the relationships of fractions, decimals, and percentages.

Sample Questions:
What is equivalent to 350%?
What fraction?_____________ What decimal?________________
What is equivalent to 250%?
What fraction?_____________ What decimal?________________
What is equivalent to 325%?
What fraction?_____________ What decimal?________________
What is equivalent to 225%?
What fraction?_____________ What decimal?________________
What is equivalent to 475%?
What fraction?_____________ What decimal?________________

Grade 6, Grade 7
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Adding and Subtracting Positive and Negative Fractions

Important: Have students face the positive numbers when adding and the negative numbers when subtracting, and make a 180 degree turn for each negative sign (not including the first number in the equation). Two negatives require a 360 degree turn canceling the change in direction.
Sample Questions:
3/2 – 4/2 =
-3/4 – 1/4=
10/4 – 7/4=
-5/4 + 7/4=
-3/2 + 4/2=

Grade 6
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Clipboard Math

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

Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Problem Interpretation

Students will read a problem from a worksheet or flashcard. Have them reinterpret it, solve it, and then hop to that answer on the mat.
Examples:
½ x 2 = 1…SO…1 x 2 ÷ 2 = 1
¼ X 4 = 1…SO…1 x 4 ÷ 4 = 1
¾ x 3 = 9/4…SO…3 x 3 ÷ 4 = 9/4
4/2 x 8 = 32/2 or 16…SO…4 x 8 ÷ 2 = 16
½ x 4 = 2…SO..4 x 1 ÷ 2 = 2

Grade 4, Grade 5
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Bean Bag Division

Follow the same instructions as Bean Bag Addition and Subtraction, but instead of adding or subtracting, have students divide.

Grade 5
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