Grade 2 Mathematics Overview

Students will...
➔ Understand that the 3-digits in a 3-digit number stand
Unit 1 for hundreds, tens, and ones.
➔ Understand that 100 is made up of 10 tens.
➔ Model various representations of hundreds using place
value manipulatives.
➔ skip count by 5’s, 10’s, and 100’s, starting at multiples of
5, 10, and 100 to determine patterns, working towards
mentally adding and subtracting 10 and 100 from any
number.
➔ Read and write numbers to 500 using base ten
numerals, number names, and expanded form to justify
representations.
➔ Apply place value knowledge, using the comparing
symbols: <, >, = to make comparisons with two numbers
up to 500.

Students will…
➔ use addition and subtraction counting strategies
Unit 2 (plus/minus 0, 1, 2 and make/break apart 10, and
doubles/halving) working towards fluency within 20.
➔ Develop an understanding of even and odd numbers
(within 20) by using concrete materials.
➔ Use various models based on place value and properties
of operations to show the relationship of adding and
subtracting within 100.
➔ Use different models to solve real world addition and
subtraction story problems using structures with all
subtypes involving one-step with sums and differences
within 100.
 Students will…
➔ tell time to the hour and half hour on an analog clock,
Unit 3 applying the knowledge of a.m. and p.m.
➔ Identify coins (dimes, nickels, and pennies), applying skip
counting strategies to determining the value of a mixed
set in real life situations.
Students will…
➔ Read and write numbers to 1000 using base ten
Unit 4 numerals, number names and expanded form to justify
representations.
➔ Compare two three-digit numbers based on meanings of
the hundred, tens, and ones digits, using >, =, and <
symbols to record the results of comparisons.
➔ Skip count by 5’s , 10’s, and 100’s,starting at any multiple
of 5, 10, and 100, within 1,000 to determine patterns.
➔ Determine whether a group of objects (up to 20) has an
odd or even number of members, e.g., by pairing objects
or counting them by 2s and write an equation to express
an even number as a sum of two equal addends.
➔ Identify coins (quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies),
applying skip counting strategies to determine the value
of a mixed set of coins up to a $1 in real life situations.
➔ Use concrete models to construct rectangular arrays
using repeated addition to record the equation in
expressing the total as a sum of equal addends.

Students will…
➔ Use different models to solve real world one and two-
step addition and subtraction story problems within 100.
Unit 5
➔ Use addition and subtraction counting strategies working
towards fluency.
➔ Understand that the three-digits of a three-digit number
(within 999) represent amounts of hundreds, tens and
ones and can explain that 100 can be composed of 10
tens.
➔ Mentally add 10 or 100 to a given 3-digit number and
mentally subtract 10 or 100 from a given 3-digit number.
➔ Use various models to show, reason, and explain applied
strategies based on place value and the properties of
 operations when adding and subtracting within 100.

Students will…
➔ Explore and use appropriate measuring tools to estimate
Unit 6 and measure the length of objects (inches and feet ) to
compare the differences in lengths with the same unit.
➔ Measure an object with both inches and feet, describe
how the two measurements relate to the size of the unit
chosen.
➔ Use real-life situations involving lengths in inches and
feet to build on their conceptual understanding with
finding length differences through addition and
subtraction (within 100).
➔ Mark and label a number line with equal spaces and solve
an addition or subtraction problem using the number line
to model the solution (within 100).
➔ Tell and write time to the nearest 5 minutes on an analog
clock, using am and pm.
Students will…
➔ Fluently use all addition and subtraction grade level fact
Unit 7 strategies within 20. Students should be able to use all
the previously taught strategies.
➔ Use different models to solve real world addition and
subtraction story problems using all subtypes involving
one step problems within 100. They will also solve two-
step problems involving all subtypes with opposite
operations.
➔ Use various models to show, reason, and explain applied
strategies based on place value and the properties of
operations when adding and subtracting within 100.
➔ Use counting strategies based on place value and
properties of operations to add three 2-digit numbers in
real life situations.
➔ Use word problems to count money of mixed sets up to
a $5 in real life situations.
 ➔ Understand addition and subtraction strategies used with
two-digit numbers can be applied to three-digit numbers
within 1,000 using concrete models and pictures.
Students will…
➔ Measure the length of an object by selecting and using
Unit 8 appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks,
and measuring tapes.
➔ Measure the length of an object twice, using length units
of different lengths for the two measurements; describe
how the two measurements relate to the size of the unit
chosen.
➔ Estimate lengths using units of inches, feet, centimeters,
and meters.
➔ Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve word
problems involving lengths that are given in the same
units.
➔ Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the
nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m. and use
descriptive terms such as: half past, five after, five before
and other similar descriptive terms.
➔ Represent points on a number line within 100 in order to
solve word problems involving lengths of inches, feet,
centimeters, and meters.

Students will…
➔ Analyze and understand a line plot is a representation of
Unit 9 data on a number line.
➔ Use picture and bar graphs to analyze data, with up to
four categories, in order to draw conclusions and solve
problems about the data.

Students will…
➔ fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental
Unit strategies. By the end of Grade 2, know from memory all
10 sums of two one-digit numbers
➔ Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one-
and two-step word problems.
➔ Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies
 based on place value, properties of operations, and/or
the relationship between addition and subtraction.
➔ Use various models to show, reason, and explain applied
strategies based on place value and the properties of
operations when adding (up to four 2-digit numbers) and
subtracting within 100.
➔ Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or
drawings and strategies based on place value, properties
of operations, and/or the relationship between addition
and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method.
➔ Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters,
dimes, nickels, and pennies using $ and c symbols
appropriately.
➔ Represent whole numbers as lengths from 0 on a
number line diagram with equally spaced points
corresponding to the numbers 0, 1, 2, ...., and represent
whole-number sums and differences within 100 on a
number line diagram.

Students will...
➔ Be able to recognize and draw shapes having specified
Unit attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given
11 number of equal faces. Identify triangles, quadrilaterals,
pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
➔ Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the
nearest five minutes, using a.m and p.m
➔ Partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four
equal shares, and describe the shares using the words
halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc., and describe the
whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths.
Recognize that equal shares of identical wholes need not
have the same shape.
➔ Use addition to find the total number of objects arranged
in rectangular arrays with up to 5 rows and up to 5
columns; write an equation to express the total as a sum
of equal addends.
➔ Partition a rectangle into rows and columns of same-size
squares and count to find the total number of them.
 Students will…
➔ Measure lengths of several objects to create a number
Unit line in order to identify patterns and analyze data on a
12 line plot.
➔ Create picture and bar graphs to represent data, with up
to four categories, in order to draw conclusions and make
decisions about the data.