Second grade math starts with a review of the basics from first grade and then moves to a series of new skills. Your budding mathematician will learn to order, label, and express quantities to solve problems. He or she will also begin to convert language into mathematical problems – understanding the math of everyday life while getting a little more formal with the way he or she expresses math problems. Pretty soon “take away” becomes minus and subtraction. Suddenly a simple “and” between phrases can make it an addition problem. Soon fractions become a part of your child's math world, as do patterns and spatial relationships.
Here's what your child should be able to do before starting second grade math:
- Work with patterns and sequences
- Add and subtract single and two-digit numbers
- Tell time by hours and minutes
- Estimate and predict simple outcomes
- Count money
- Identify place values to hundreds
- Practice measuring length, capacity, and weight
- Work with geometric shapes
- Become familiar with the concept of symmetry
- Count higher that 100
- Identify the fractions 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4
- Solve simple word problems
By the end of second grade students working at the standard level:
- Add and subtract two-and-three-digit numbers
- Collect and compare seasonal temperatures using a thermometer
- Use time to sequence events of the day
- Recognize, identify, and create a circle, quadrilateral, rhombus, square, triangle, trapezoid, hexagon, and parallelogram
- Compare and contrast the characteristics of shapes
- Model and find the perimeter of simple shapes
- Estimate and measure length, weight, and capacity using standard units of measurement
- Use appropriate tools and terms to explore measurement
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