In second grade math, children need total mastery of their addition and subtraction facts since they are expected to do two-digit and three-digit addition and subtraction. If they don’t know these math facts instantaneously, their hesitation will make it hard to keep their pace in those second grade math problems.
In second grade math, children start to learn fractions and need to get comfortable with the concept of a half, a third, a quarter, and an eighth. In geometry, second grade math students move beyond recognizing shapes to becoming fluent with the language of geometry so they can use terms such as ‘curves’, ‘vertices’, ‘edges’, ‘faces’ and ‘angles’ to describe the attributes of two and three-dimensional shapes.
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Second grade math includes use of ordinal numbers to 100th. The children will compare and order whole numbers to 1000. They will group objects into hundreds, tens and ones, relating the groupings to a written numeral.
Second grade math includes fractions. Students should understand halves, thirds, quarters, and eighths as parts of a set. They should know that a complete set makes one whole. The children will be skip-counting by 2s, 3s, 5s, 10s, 25s, 50s and 100s. They should learn to count forward or backward by 1s or 10s starting with any number less than 1000. They should also understand the difference between odd and even numbers.
Coins are used in teaching second grade math. The children will count mixed groups of coins including pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and half-dollars. They’ll be taught to recognize equivalent forms of money values, and should count coins up to one dollar or more during the course of the year.
During second grade, math students learn place values to 1000. They should be able to use place value patterns using 0 as a place holder (10, 100, etc.) and should understand that ten 10s equal 100. In numbers up to 1000, the children should know the place value of any designated digit.
By the end of the year second grade math students should recall addition and subtraction facts from memory. They should understand the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction, and be able to predict the relative size of solutions for both addition and subtraction - in other words they should understand that adding two whole numbers will result in a number larger than either of the two original numbers. Students should be able to add or subtract two-digit numbers with or without regrouping.
There are 116 math activities in the second grade curriculum, and children can either move through them sequentially, or pick and choose from the lessons, using the Activity Finder. Parents can easily follow their child’s progress by logging into the child’s portfolio and viewing day by day lessons or a customizable and printable report than can be sorted by subject, lesson type, or date range.
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This post was written by Kerry on July 10, 2009
