2nd grade · Math · Unit 3 of 16
Adding to 100
Bigger adding and take-aways
What your child practices
Two-digit adding and subtracting by working with tens and ones, including making a new ten.
Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: 2.NBT.B.5; 2.OA.A.1 · adding and subtracting within 100 using place value, including word problems
How we explain it
Children can open this short lesson before they practice.
- Add the tens first.
- Then add the ones.
- Put the two answers together. To take away, work the same way.
Example: 34 + 25 = ? Tens: 30 + 20 = 50. Ones: 4 + 5 = 9. 50 + 9 = 59. Answer: 59
Adding to 100 in Arizona
In the Arizona Academic Standards, this is unit 3 of 16 in 2nd grade Math, after Facts to 20 and before Measuring.
Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.
Source: Arizona Department of Education
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Ollie has 25 shells. He finds 34 more. How many shells now?
🐚25 + 34- 59
- 69
- 58
59
Hint: Add them together: 25 + 34. Add the tens, then the ones.
Question 2
What is 64 − 20?
64 − 20 = ?
- 44
- 38
- 41
44
Hint: Taking away tens? Only the tens change. 64 take away 2 tens is 44.
Question 3
What is 22 + 55?
- 77
- 82
- 81
77
Hint: Add the tens: 20 + 50 = 70. Add the ones: 2 + 5 = 7. Together: 77.
Question 4
What is 57 − 21?
57 − 21 = ?
- 33
- 35
- 36
36
Hint: Take away the tens: 50 − 20 = 30. Take away the ones: 7 − 1 = 6.
Question 5
What is 41 + 34?
41 + 34 = ?
- 85
- 69
- 75
75
Hint: Add the tens: 40 + 30 = 70. Add the ones: 1 + 4 = 5. Together: 75.
Question 6
What is 14 + 10?
14 + 10 = ?
- 26
- 24
- 25
24
Hint: Adding tens? Only the tens change: 1 tens + 1 tens = 2 tens.