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

  1. Weeks 1–2

    Fact Strategies Within 20

    1. Make ten to add: sums from 11 to 18
    2. Doubles and near doubles
    3. Use ten to subtract
    4. Think addition to subtract, and start the daily facts

    Standards, Common Core: 2.OA.B.2

  2. Weeks 3–6

    Place Value to 1,000

    1. Bundle ten ones
    2. Ten tens make one hundred
    3. Count by fives and tens
    4. Hundreds, tens, and ones
    5. Expanded form and the value of a digit
    6. Expanded form with a zero
    7. Compare and order three-digit numbers
    8. 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

  3. Weeks 7–11

    Adding and Subtracting Within 100

    1. A number line that does not start at zero
    2. Jumps on the hundreds chart
    3. Jumps on an open number line
    4. Add tens and ones, then put them together
    5. Subtract and open a ten
    6. Add and subtract vertically
    7. Add and subtract within 100
    8. Add three and four two-digit numbers
    9. Why does it work?

    Standards, Common Core: 2.MD.B.6, 2.NBT.B.5, 2.NBT.B.6, 2.NBT.B.9

  4. Weeks 12–13

    Story Problems Within 100

    1. One-step stories with a bar model
    2. What was there at the start?
    3. Compare stories: more and fewer
    4. Two-step stories

    Standards, Common Core: 2.OA.A.1

  5. Weeks 14–16

    Adding and Subtracting Within 1,000

    1. Add with blocks
    2. Add three-digit numbers and make a new ten or hundred
    3. Subtract with blocks
    4. Subtract three-digit numbers with regrouping
    5. Subtract across zeros

    Standards, Common Core: 2.NBT.B.5, 2.NBT.B.7

  6. Weeks 17–21

    Measurement, Time, and Money

    1. Measure with a ruler
    2. Same length, two units
    3. Estimate, then measure
    4. How much longer?
    5. Length story problems
    6. Tell time to the nearest five minutes
    7. Read a calendar
    8. Count mixed coins
    9. 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

  7. Weeks 22–24

    Graphs and Grids

    1. From tally marks to a bar graph
    2. Make a graph from counts
    3. Find a square on a grid
    4. Read a line plot
    5. Measure and make a line plot
    6. Each picture counts as two

    Standards, Common Core: 2.MD.D.9, 2.MD.D.10

  8. Weeks 25–29

    Equal Groups and Equal Shares

    1. Odd and even with equal parts
    2. Equal groups
    3. Rows and columns
    4. Rows and columns of squares
    5. Count by threes and fours
    6. Share fairly and make groups
    7. Halves, thirds, and fourths
    8. A fraction of a group

    Standards, Common Core: 2.G.A.2, 2.G.A.3, 2.OA.C.3, 2.OA.C.4

  9. Weeks 30–32

    Shapes, Solids, and Symmetry

    1. Sort shapes by sides
    2. Solid shapes around us
    3. Faces, edges, and vertices (corners)
    4. Is it a line of symmetry?
    5. Finish the other half
    6. Which one matches the shadow?

    Standards, Common Core: 2.G.A.1

Print the scope and sequence

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Scope and sequence (PDF)

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