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2nd grade · Math · Unit 2 of 14

Facts to 20

Add and take away

What your child practices

Fluent facts to 20 using strategies like making ten and thinking addition to subtract.

Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards benchmark: 2.3.5.8 · fluently adding and subtracting within 20 with mental strategies

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Use 10 as a stepping stone.
  2. Break one number to make a 10 with the other.
  3. Then add what is left over.

Example: 8 + 5 = ? 8 needs 2 more to make 10. Take 2 from 5. That leaves 3. 10 + 3 = 13. Answer: 13

Facts to 20 in Minnesota

In the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards, this is unit 2 of 14 in 2nd grade Math, after Bigger or Smaller and before Adding to 100.

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: Minnesota Department of Education (MDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    What is 7 + 4?

    7 + 4 = ?

    • 11
    • 7
    • 9

  2. Question 2

    What is 6 + 7?

    • 7
    • 13
    • 8

  3. Question 3

    What number is missing?

    10 + = 14

    • 4
    • 8
    • 3

  4. Question 4

    What is 14 − 7?

    14 − 7 = ?

    • 7
    • 1
    • 4

  5. Question 5

    What is 18 − 7?

    18 − 7 = ?

    • 11
    • 9
    • 8

  6. Question 6

    What is 6 + 4?

    6 + 4 = ?

    • 10
    • 20
    • 6

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