Math Puzzle with Animals — Grade 2

This Grade 2 math puzzle turns two-digit addition and subtraction into a picture of animals. Every piece holds a problem within 100, and solving it places the piece. Working with numbers to 100 — two-digit sums and differences, sometimes with regrouping — is exactly the 2nd-grade base-ten practice this sheet builds, and reassembling the picture makes the arithmetic feel like play. A child solves, places, and completes.

Within-100 addition and subtraction is the 2nd-grade leap into two-digit, base-ten thinking. A picture puzzle of animals makes that leap inviting — the child solves each two-digit equation to place a piece. Working numbers up to 100, with the tens-and-ones reasoning second graders build, is the genuine skill here, dressed as a puzzle a child wants to finish.

Children enjoy watching the picture come together as they solve each problem, and a finished math puzzle is a satisfying proof of within-100 skill. When this is easy, solve the puzzle in math puzzle with household things, or try math puzzle with more birds. You can also browse every Grade 2 math puzzle or the whole second-grade collection — each sheet prints cleanly or plays online for free, and the more within-100 problems a child solves, the surer their two-digit addition and subtraction grows, one solved piece at a time.