What is the Learning Carpet?

The Learning Carpet is a tool that helps young learners actively create foundational math and literacy skills. This permanently gridded, 100 square floor mat develops critical math and literacy skills in all children Pre-K through Fifth Grade. The Learning Carpet promotes inquiry and collaboration. As students tackle challenges in the whole group, small groups, or individually, they deepen content understanding and build communication skills. Students gather around the six-foot square rug to explore and construct, test and retest, refine and extend individual understanding. If you want to increase student understanding and achievement, then you need The Learning Carpet.

The Learning Carpet

Higher-Level Thinking

Assists flexible thinking of finding multiple paths to a solution
Boosts risk taking and ability to persevere while actively engaged in tasks
Nurtures the use of precise language in explaining reasoning
Encourages visualization/structuring skills to promote conceptual knowledge
Inspires students to construct and share thinking and critique the work of others
Scaffolds learning so each student is challenged and can access content to meet his or her learning needs

Math

Strengthens accurate and efficient counting skills
Supports deeper understanding of word problems in all situations
Promotes strong forward and backward sequencing skills
Refines numeral identification understandings
Creates understanding of place value structure and multi-digit operations
Cultivates the meaning of equality and other big ideas in math
Fosters the use of mental strategies to know basic facts from memory
Develops recognition of patterns to make generalizations in math
Helps to develop measurement skills
Apply properties of operations to add, subtract, multiply and divide.
Fosters meaningful connections as students actively represent and interpret data
Forms foundational understanding of fractions
Builds understanding of coordinate geometry and mapping skills
Deepens geometric reasoning as students define, compose and partition 2-D shapes