Grade 2 · Math · Scope and sequence
Grade 2 Math Scope and Sequence
9 units in teaching order: 59 lessons, about 32 weeks in all.
These units do not fill a whole school year. Use the order and the number of weeks to fit them into your own year.
The units week by week
Weeks 1–2
Fact Strategies Within 20
- Make ten to add: sums from 11 to 18
- Doubles and near doubles
- Use ten to subtract
- Think addition to subtract, and start the daily facts
Standards, Common Core: 2.OA.B.2
Weeks 3–6
Place Value to 1,000
- Bundle ten ones
- Ten tens make one hundred
- Count by fives and tens
- Hundreds, tens, and ones
- Expanded form and the value of a digit
- Expanded form with a zero
- Compare and order three-digit numbers
- 100 more, 100 less
Standards, Common Core: 2.NBT.A.1, 2.NBT.A.1.a, 2.NBT.A.2, 2.NBT.A.3, 2.NBT.A.4, 2.NBT.B.8
Weeks 7–11
Adding and Subtracting Within 100
- A number line that does not start at zero
- Jumps on the hundreds chart
- Jumps on an open number line
- Add tens and ones, then put them together
- Subtract and open a ten
- Add and subtract vertically
- Add and subtract within 100
- Add three and four two-digit numbers
- Why does it work?
Standards, Common Core: 2.MD.B.6, 2.NBT.B.5, 2.NBT.B.6, 2.NBT.B.9
Weeks 12–13
Story Problems Within 100
- One-step stories with a bar model
- What was there at the start?
- Compare stories: more and fewer
- Two-step stories
Standards, Common Core: 2.OA.A.1
Weeks 14–16
Adding and Subtracting Within 1,000
- Add with blocks
- Add three-digit numbers and make a new ten or hundred
- Subtract with blocks
- Subtract three-digit numbers with regrouping
- Subtract across zeros
Standards, Common Core: 2.NBT.B.5, 2.NBT.B.7
Weeks 17–21
Measurement, Time, and Money
- Measure with a ruler
- Same length, two units
- Estimate, then measure
- How much longer?
- Length story problems
- Tell time to the nearest five minutes
- Read a calendar
- Count mixed coins
- Shopping with money
Standards, Common Core: 2.MD.A.1, 2.MD.A.2, 2.MD.A.3, 2.MD.A.4, 2.MD.B.5, 2.MD.C.7, 2.MD.C.8
Weeks 22–24
Graphs and Grids
- From tally marks to a bar graph
- Make a graph from counts
- Find a square on a grid
- Read a line plot
- Measure and make a line plot
- Each picture counts as two
Standards, Common Core: 2.MD.D.9, 2.MD.D.10
Weeks 25–29
Equal Groups and Equal Shares
- Odd and even with equal parts
- Equal groups
- Rows and columns
- Rows and columns of squares
- Count by threes and fours
- Share fairly and make groups
- Halves, thirds, and fourths
- A fraction of a group
Standards, Common Core: 2.G.A.2, 2.G.A.3, 2.OA.C.3, 2.OA.C.4
Weeks 30–32
Shapes, Solids, and Symmetry
- Sort shapes by sides
- Solid shapes around us
- Faces, edges, and vertices (corners)
- Is it a line of symmetry?
- Finish the other half
- Which one matches the shadow?
Standards, Common Core: 2.G.A.1
Print the scope and sequence
The same table on paper, with a column for your own dates and a box to check off when you have taught a unit.
Scope and sequence (PDF)The printable scope and sequence comes with the paid Teacher plan.