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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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Graphing Shapes

Have all of your students stand on their favorite shapes. Which shape has the most students on it? The least? Do any shapes have equal numbers of kids standing on it? Make a simple bar graph on the board to demonstrate their answers.
PreK, Kindergarten
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Match It

Have students find objects around the room and, if able, bring them to the matching shape on the mat. If the object is too large, the student can stand on the shape on the mat and call out the object they found that matches. For example, a student spots the clock, stands on the circle and calls out, “A clock is a circle.” A student finds a tissue box, places it on the rectangle and says, “The tissue box is a rectangle.”

PreK, Kindergarten
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Characteristics

Write the characteristics or questions about the shapes on note cards. Read the card aloud (or have students draw and read) and have the students place the card on the correct shape.
Examples:
This shape has four sides.
Which shape’s name starts with an O?
Which shape’s name ends in a T?

PreK, Kindergarten
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Shape Pictionary

Divide the students into two teams. They will rotate turns having one student draw a shape on the board and another find it on the mat and say its name. The team that gets to the shape their teammate is drawing first wins a point. Play until everyone has had a chance to have a couple turns.

PreK, Kindergarten
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Crawl and Trace

Have your students crawl along the mat while tracing each shape with their fingers.

PreK, Kindergarten
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Matching Cards

Use the shape cards provided below. Have students select a card and match the shape to its location on the mat.

Download Shape Cards

PreK, Kindergarten
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Hopping to say the shape

Have students start on “start here.” Have them jump on each shape and shout the shape as they jump. Make sure they are on the shape they are shouting out. If they move too quickly, take their hand and slowly walk with them saying the shape name as you walk towards the end of the mat.

PreK, Kindergarten
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Determining Equivalence

Create ‘picture frames’ out of colored paper. You can fold a piece of paper in half and cut along the edges to make a rectangular cut out. You can also laminate these ‘picture frames’ to make them more durable to reuse!

There are a number of approaches to help students understand equivalent fractions.

To determine if 3/5 is equivalent to 12/20, consider the following methods:

Method One
Place an orange picture frame on the 3 and 12. Place a green picture frame on the 5 and 20.

Ask the question, 3 times what is 12? Answer is 4. Ask the question, 5 times what is 20? Answer is 4. The answers are the same, thus 3/5 is equivalent to 12/20.

Method Two
Put a red picture frame over the number 3. Put a red picture frame over the number 20. Put a blue picture frame over the number 5 and another over the number 12. Put arrows on mat to indicate that student is to cross multiply.

Is 3/5 equivalent to 12/20? Multiply 3×20 (=60) and 5×12 (=60). Is the answer the same? Yes—so 3/5 is equivalent to 12/20. Fractions are equal if the product of the means equals to the product of the extremes. (From the Means-Extremes Property of Proportions)

Grade 7
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Prime Factors

Have your students put a bean bag on a product. For example, if the beanbag is on 40, then ask the students what the factors of 40 are. If they choose 8 and 5, continue to break down the factors placing a beanbag on each number until they are prime (8=2×4). Identify all the prime factors. E.g. 2, 4, 5

Grade 6, Grade 7
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Square Roots

Use blue painter’s tape to make a box around the square (see example above). The square root is the number of boxes in the row or column.

For example, what is the square root of 9? Have a student stand on 9. Instruct the student to walk in the boxes (Including the box they are standing in) to reach the edge of the mat where the square root is located.

You can also put bean bags in the boxes for your entire class to count to determine the square root.

Grade 5, Grade 6
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