Grade 2 math
Lessons commonly taught in grade 2, each with worked examples, practice problems, and complete solutions. Topics often span more than one grade, so you may see a lesson listed under a neighboring grade too.
15 lessons · 34 standards
Addition and Subtraction
- Addition and Subtraction Strategies Within 20
Add and subtract within 20 in your head: count on, turn a sum around, make a ten, use doubles, subtract through ten, and use a fact you know. Grades 1–2.
- Arrays: Rows, Columns and Equal Groups
Grade 2: find the total in an array by adding equal rows or columns, write it as a sum like 4 + 4 + 4, and count the squares in a rectangle cut into rows and columns.
- Odd and Even Numbers
Second grade: tell whether a group of up to 20 objects is odd or even by pairing them or counting by 2s, and write an even number as a double, like 12 = 6 + 6.
- Word Problems Within 100: One and Two Steps
Second grade word problems: add and subtract within 100 to solve one-step and two-step problems, using tape diagrams and number sentences with a box for the unknown.
Place Value
- Adding and Subtracting Within 100
Grade 2: add and subtract within 100 with place value — tens with tens and ones with ones, making a ten, counting up — add up to four numbers, and explain why it works.
- Adding and Subtracting Within 1,000
Grade 2: add and subtract three-digit numbers — hundreds with hundreds, tens with tens, ones with ones — making or breaking tens and hundreds, and write it in columns.
- Counting and Skip-Counting to 1,000
Second grade: count to 1,000, skip-count by 5s, 10s and 100s from any number, and add or subtract 10 or 100 in your head.
- Hundreds, Tens and Ones: Place Value to 1,000
Second grade place value: see a hundred as ten tens, read three-digit numbers as hundreds, tens and ones, write them in words and expanded form, and compare them.
Measurement & Data
- Telling Time: Hours, Half Hours and Minutes
Tell and write time on analog and digital clocks: to the hour and half hour in first grade, to five minutes with a.m. and p.m. in second grade.
- Counting Money: Coins, Dollars and Cents
Grade 2 money: know pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and dollar bills, count mixed coins by skip-counting, use the ¢ and dollar signs, and solve money word problems.
- Length Problems and the Number Line
Second grade: show numbers as lengths from 0 on a number line, add and subtract with jumps, and solve word problems about lengths in the same unit.
- Measuring in Inches, Feet, Centimeters and Meters
Second grade measurement: measure with rulers and meter sticks, estimate lengths, see why bigger units give smaller numbers, and find how much longer one thing is.
Data and Graphs
- Picture Graphs, Bar Graphs and Line Plots
Second grade data: measure objects and show the lengths on a line plot, draw picture graphs and bar graphs with up to four groups, and answer questions from them.
Geometry
- Equal Shares: Halves, Thirds and Fourths
Cut circles and rectangles into two, three or four equal shares, name them halves, thirds and fourths, and see why more shares means smaller shares. Grades 1–2.
- What Makes a Shape: Sides, Angles and Faces
Tell what names a shape, like being closed with three sides, from what does not, like color and size; then name quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons and cubes.
Standards covered
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- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.OA.A.1
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