“Answering mats” are mats for sitting at morning activity. Every child has his own mat and it’s made of old textile for example wool, silk, denim material and so on.  Mat has done one type of material, but there is many different mats made of different tekstiles.
Teacher can ask a quiestion (for example discribe todays weather) and says which material/tekstile has to anwer (hor example cotton mats please answer).
Using different tekstile mats children can see and discover the material world can learn to make difference and notice those things.
Also we can do different games with those mats, for example eyes are covered and child has to find same tekstile pairs.