Square Number Hop
This is the Square Number Hop floor mat. This floor mat is designed to help kids learn square numbers using both multiplication and addition. The numbers include 1 times 1 equals 1 all the way through 20 times 20 equals 400. Each box on the floor mat contains an equation as well as its product in large numerical values.
Grade 4 - Grade 7
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Square Challenge
Once the students are familiar with the squares and roots, cover up some of the numbers, either the squares, the roots, or some of each, and have them hop down...Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6Hop the Mat – Square Number
Have students start on START HERE. The students will hop down the mat as they read through the multiplication problems that create each square number. For example: Hop on the...Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 8Hop the Mat – Addition
Have students start on START HERE. The students will jump down the mat as they read through the addition problems that create each square number. For example: Hop on the...Grade 4, Grade 5Square 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 8How 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...Grade 4, Grade 5Bean 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 5What 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...Grade 4, Grade 5Make 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...Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6Pattern
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...Grade 4, Grade 5
