Grade 2 Curriculum

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Important: this is a guide only.
Check with your local education authority to find out their requirements.

Grade 2 | Counting
☐ Skip count to 100 by 2's, 5's, 10's
☐ Skip Counting by 10
☐ Skip Counting by 2
☐ Colorable Number Chart
☐ Skip Counting
☐ Definition of Skip Counting
☐ Skip Counting by 5
☐ Skip Counting Game
☐ Count back from 100 by 1's, 5's, 10's using a number chart
☐ Counting: Number Names to 100
☐ Skip Counting Backwards
☐ Skip Counting Backwards by 10
☐ Skip Counting Backwards by 5
☐ Colorable Number Chart
☐ Skip Counting
☐ Activity: Make a Number Chart
☐ Skip count by 3's to 36 for multiplication readiness
☐ Skip Counting by 3
☐ Colorable Number Chart
☐ Skip Counting
☐ Skip Counting Game
☐ Skip count by 4's to 48 for multiplication readiness
☐ Skip Counting by 4
☐ Colorable Number Chart
☐ Skip Counting
☐ Skip Counting Game
☐ Name the number before and the number after a given number, and name the number(s) between two given numbers up to 100 (with and without the use of a number line or a hundreds chart)
☐ Counting: Number Names to 100
☐ Scrolling Number Line
☐ Skip count by 3's to 99
☐ Skip Counting by 3
☐ Colorable Number Chart
☐ Skip Counting
☐ Skip Counting Game
☐ Three Times Tables
☐ Skip count by 4's to 100
☐ Skip Counting by 4
☐ Colorable Number Chart
☐ Skip Counting
☐ Skip Counting Game
Grade 2 | Addition
☐ Use zero as the identity element for addition
☐ Definition of Additive Identity
☐ Determine sums of number sentences by various means (e.g., families, related facts, inverse operations, addition doubles, and doubles plus one)
☐ Addition
☐ Use a variety of strategies to solve addition problems using one and two-digit numbers with and without regrouping
☐ Who Wants to be a Mathionaire - Addition Quiz
☐ Addition
☐ Addition Tips and Tricks
☐ Math Trainer - Addition
☐ Addition Math Worksheets
☐ Fix the Equation
☐ Test your Math
☐ Play Number Square Puzzle Game
☐ Using The Number Line
☐ Addition Table
☐ Number Blocks Puzzles
☐ Play with Number Blocks Online
☐ Demonstrate fluency and apply addition facts up to and including 18
☐ Play Speed Math Challenge
☐ Addition
☐ Math Trainer - Addition
☐ Number Blocks Puzzles
☐ Play with Number Blocks Online
☐ Addition Math Worksheets
☐ Addition Table
☐ Flipping Discs Puzzle
☐ Test your Math
☐ Who Wants to be a Mathionaire - Addition Quiz
☐ Addition Tips and Tricks
☐ Fix the Equation
☐ Play Number Square Puzzle Game
☐ Use doubling to add 2-digit numbers
☐ Addition Tips and Tricks
☐ Use compensation to add 2-digit numbers
☐ Addition in Columns
☐ Addition Math Worksheets
☐ Develop readiness for multiplication by using repeated addition
☐ Definition of Multiply
☐ Two Times Tables
☐ Understand and use the commutative property of addition
☐ Commutative Associative and Distributive Laws
☐ Definition of Commutative Law
☐ Smart Blocks
☐ Activity: Commutative Associative and Distributive
Grade 2 | Subtraction
☐ Use a variety of strategies to solve subtraction problems using one and two-digit numbers with and without regrouping
☐ Test your Math
☐ Math Trainer - Subtraction
☐ Subtraction
☐ Subtraction Math Worksheets
☐ Determine differences of number sentences by various means (e.g., families, related facts, inverse operations)
☐ Subtraction
☐ Demonstrate fluency and apply subtraction facts up to and including 18
☐ Broken Calculator Puzzles
☐ Math Trainer - Subtraction
☐ Subtraction
☐ Subtraction Math Worksheets
☐ Test your Math
Grade 2 | Division
☐ Develop readiness for division by using repeated subtraction, dividing objects into groups (fair share)
☐ Division
Grade 2 | Numbers
☐ Read written ordinal terms (first through ninth) and use them to represent ordinal relations
☐ Definition of Ordinal Number
☐ Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers Chart
☐ Recognize the meaning of zero in the place value system (0-100)
☐ Place Value
☐ Zero Definition
☐ Use concrete materials to justify a number as odd or even
☐ Even and Odd Numbers
☐ Definition of Odd Number
☐ Even Number Definition
☐ Colorable Number Chart
☐ Compare and order numbers to 100
☐ Play In Order Memory Game
☐ Ordering Game
☐ Ordering Numbers
☐ Definition of Ordering
☐ Compare Numbers to 10
☐ Compare Numbers to 100
☐ Develop an understanding of the base ten system: 10 ones = 1 ten 10 tens = 1 hundred 10 hundreds = 1 thousand
☐ Definition of Base Ten System
☐ Definition of Decimal Number System
☐ Place Value
☐ Use a variety of strategies to compose and decompose two-digit numbers
☐ Composing and Decomposing Numbers
☐ Use and understand verbal ordinal terms
☐ Definition of Ordinal Number
☐ Cardinal Ordinal and Nominal Numbers
☐ Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers Chart
Grade 2 | Measurement
☐ Use non-standard and standard metric units to measure both vertical and horizontal lengths
☐ Activity: Compare Lengths
☐ Vertical Definition
☐ Horizontal Definition
☐ Definition of Ruler
☐ Metric Length
☐ Activity: Discover Lengths
☐ Activity: Personal Measures
☐ Select and use standard metric and non-standard units to estimate measurements
☐ Metric Length
☐ Definition of Estimate
☐ Definition of Estimation
☐ Activity: Discover Lengths
☐ Activity: Compare Lengths
☐ Activity: Personal Measures
☐ Use a ruler to measure standard metric units
☐ Metric Length
☐ Definition of Ruler
☐ Definition of Linear Scale
☐ Activity: Discover Lengths
☐ Activity: Personal Measures
☐ Compare and order objects according to the attribute of length
☐ Ordering Numbers
☐ Activity: Discover Lengths
☐ Metric Length
☐ Recognize mass as a qualitative measure (e.g., Which is heavier? Which is lighter?)
☐ Metric Mass
☐ Activity: Discover Mass
☐ Compare and order objects, using 'lighter than' and 'heavier than'
☐ Ordering Numbers
☐ Metric Mass
☐ Identify compass direction: North, South, East, West
☐ Play Mazes Online or Print Them
☐ Definition of Direction
☐ Play Follow the Direction
☐ Compass: North South East and West
☐ Use non-standard and standard US units to measure both vertical and horizontal lengths
☐ Vertical Definition
☐ Activity: Compare Lengths
☐ Horizontal Definition
☐ Definition of Ruler
☐ Activity: Discover Lengths
☐ Activity: Personal Measures
☐ Select and use standard US and non-standard units to estimate measurements
☐ US Standard Lengths
☐ Definition of Estimate
☐ Definition of Estimation
☐ Activity: Discover Lengths
☐ Activity: Compare Lengths
☐ Activity: Grass for the Garden
☐ Activity: Personal Measures
☐ Use a ruler to measure standard US units
☐ US Standard Lengths
☐ Definition of Ruler
☐ Definition of Linear Scale
☐ Activity: Discover Lengths
☐ Activity: Personal Measures
Grade 2 | Time
☐ Tell time to the half hour and five minutes using both digital and analog clocks
☐ Clocks - Digital and Analog
☐ Analog and Digital Clocks Animation
☐ Time Worksheets
☐ Date and Time Clock
Grade 2 | Geometry (Plane)
☐ Experiment with slides, flips, and turns to compare two-dimensional shapes
☐ Shapes Freeplay
☐ Definition of Slide
☐ Definition of Flip
☐ Definition of Turn
☐ Congruent
☐ Identify and appropriately name two-dimensional shapes: circle, square, rectangle, and triangle (both regular and irregular)
☐ Shapes Freeplay
☐ Play Math Match Memory Game
☐ 2D Shapes - Polygons and More
☐ Circle Definition
☐ Square Definition
☐ Triangle Definition
☐ Definition of Rectangle
☐ Compose (put together) and decompose (break apart) two-dimensional shapes
☐ Shapes Freeplay
☐ The Letter F Puzzle
☐ The Letter H Puzzle
☐ The Letter T Puzzle
☐ Group objects by like properties
☐ Definition of Property
☐ 2D Shapes - Polygons and More
☐ Play Math Match Memory Game
☐ Concentration Memory Game
☐ Activity: Sorting Shapes
☐ Explore and predict the outcome of slides, flips, and turns of two dimensional shapes
☐ Definition of Slide
☐ Definition of Flip
☐ Definition of Turn
☐ Shapes Freeplay
☐ Explore line symmetry
☐ Symmetry Artist
☐ Reflection Symmetry
☐ Geometry - Reflection
☐ Definition of Line Symmetry
☐ Activity: Symmetry of Shapes
☐ Lines of Symmetry of Plane Shapes
Grade 2 | Pre-Algebra
☐ Use the symbols <, >, = (with and without the use of a number line) to compare whole numbers up to 100
☐ Compare Numbers to 10
☐ Scrolling Number Line
☐ Comparing Numbers
☐ Compare Numbers to 100
☐ Introduction to Inequalities
☐ Number Line Definition
☐ Describe and extend increasing or decreasing (+,-) sequences and patterns (numbers or objects up to 100)
☐ Patterns
☐ Definition of Number Pattern
☐ Play Pattern Match - Numbers
☐ Make your own Number Patterns
Grade 2 | Data
☐ Formulate questions about themselves and their surroundings
☐ Activity: Improving Questions
☐ Activity: Asking Questions
☐ Collect and record data (using tallies) related to a question
☐ Activity: Most Loved Pet
☐ Tally Marks
☐ Activity: Day of the Week Born
☐ Display data in pictographs and bar graphs using concrete objects or a representation of the object
☐ Showing the Results of a Survey
☐ Pictographs
☐ Bar Graphs
☐ Make a Bar Graph
☐ Data Graphs
☐ Discuss conclusions and make predictions from data graphs
☐ Activity: Most Loved Pet
Grade 2 | Estimation
☐ Estimate the number in a collection to 100 and then compare by counting the actual items in the collection
☐ Estimation Games
☐ Visual Estimation
☐ Definition of Estimate
Grade 2 | Money
☐ Know and recognize coins (such as 10c, 50c etc) and bills (such as $5, $10, etc)
☐ Money Master
☐ Currencies of the World
☐ Activity: Counting Coins
☐ Make the Amount
☐ Recognize the whole dollar notation as $1, etc.
☐ Money Master
☐ Currencies of the World
☐ Make the Amount
☐ Identify equivalent combinations to make one dollar
☐ Money Master
☐ Activity: Counting Coins
☐ Make the Amount