2nd grade Math
19 units matched to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS).
Focus areas
- Number and operations: place value to 1,200, adding and subtracting within 1,000, fractions and money
- Algebraic reasoning: even and odd numbers, 10 or 100 more or less, and equal groups
- Geometry, measurement and data: shapes and solids, length, area, time, and bar graphs
- Personal financial literacy: saving, deposits and withdrawals, borrowing and lending, and producers and consumers
Units
Unit 1
Numbers to 1000
Reading and building numbers up to 1000 with hundreds, tens and ones, counting forwards and backwards by 10s and 100s, even and odd numbers, estimating with 100s as benchmarks, and comparing with <, > and =.
TEKS student expectation: 2.2(A); 2.2(B); 2.2(D) · building numbers from hundreds, tens and ones, and comparing and ordering numbers to 1,200
Unit 2
Bigger or Smaller
Comparing and ordering numbers, using <, > and =, and noticing numbers close to 50.
TEKS student expectation: 2.2(C); 2.2(D) · naming a number greater or less than another, and comparing with >, < and =
Unit 3
Skip Counting
Skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s forward and backward from 0 to 100, using a hundred chart or number line.
TEKS student expectation: 2.7(B) · counting on and back by 10s and 100s
Unit 4
Even, Odd and Ordinals
Deciding whether a number up to 100 is even or odd by making pairs, and using ordinal numbers for position.
TEKS student expectation: 2.7(A) · telling whether a number is even or odd
Unit 5
Facts to 20
Fluent facts to 20 using strategies like making ten and thinking addition to subtract.
TEKS student expectation: 2.4(A) · recalling addition and subtraction facts within 20
Unit 6
Adding to 100
Two-digit adding and subtracting by working with tens and ones, including making a new ten.
TEKS student expectation: 2.4(B); 2.4(C) · adding and subtracting two-digit numbers with place value strategies, including word problems
Unit 7
Add & Subtract to 1000
Adding and subtracting three-digit numbers using place value, and adding or taking away 10 or 100 in their head.
TEKS student expectation: 2.4(C); 2.7(B) · adding and subtracting within 1,000, and finding 10 or 100 more or less
Unit 8
Balance It
Finding the unknown number that makes both sides of an equation equal, using symbols for unknowns, and spotting number patterns.
TEKS student expectation: 2.7(C) · solving addition and subtraction problems where the unknown can be any term
Unit 9
Groups & Sharing
Seeing multiplication as repeated equal groups and division as sharing equally, with arrays, pictures and short stories.
TEKS student expectation: 2.6(A); 2.6(B) · joining equal groups to multiply and separating a set into equal groups to divide
Unit 10
Arrays
Adding equal rows to find the total in an array (up to 5 by 5), and cutting a rectangle into rows and columns of squares. This gets ready for multiplication.
TEKS student expectation: 2.6(A); 2.9(F) · adding equal rows in an array and covering a rectangle with square units
Unit 11
Dollars & Cents
US money: pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and dollar bills. Counting a handful of coins, making an amount, and word problems with the ¢ and $ signs.
TEKS student expectation: 2.5(A); 2.5(B) · finding the value of a collection of coins and writing it with ¢, $ and the decimal point
Unit 12
Shapes
Describing shapes by their sides, corners (vertices) and faces, and spotting 3D shapes in real life.
TEKS student expectation: 2.8(A); 2.8(C) · making shapes with a given number of sides and vertices, and sorting polygons
Unit 13
Measuring
Measuring with a ruler from zero and choosing between centimeters and meters.
TEKS student expectation: 2.9(A); 2.9(D) · measuring length in metric units with rulers and meter sticks
Unit 14
Inches, Feet & Yards
Measuring and estimating length in inches, feet and yards (and centimeters and meters), and finding how much longer one thing is than another.
TEKS student expectation: 2.9(A); 2.9(D); 2.9(E) · measuring and estimating lengths in inches, feet and yards, and solving length problems
Unit 15
Five-Minute Clock
Reading clocks to the nearest five minutes, quarter past and quarter to, and knowing when a time is a.m. or p.m.
TEKS student expectation: 2.9(G) · reading and writing time on analog and digital clocks, with a.m. and p.m.
Unit 16
Graphs
Reading picture graphs: how many, which has the most or fewest, and how many more.
TEKS student expectation: 2.10(A); 2.10(C) · reading pictographs and bar graphs and solving problems with their data
Unit 17
Bar Graphs
Reading bar graphs with four groups: how many more, how many fewer, how many in all, and which question a class survey can answer.
TEKS student expectation: 2.10(B); 2.10(D) · organizing data in pictographs and bar graphs and drawing conclusions
Unit 18
Halves, Fourths & Eighths
Your child splits shapes into equal parts and names halves, fourths and eighths, and learns that the more equal parts a whole is cut into, the smaller each part is.
TEKS student expectation: 2.3(A); 2.3(B); 2.3(D) · naming halves, fourths and eighths, and seeing that more equal parts make smaller parts
Unit 19
Saving & Borrowing
Personal financial literacy: your child sees how savings grow over time, tells a deposit from a withdrawal, talks about responsible borrowing and lending, and tells producers from consumers, including the cost to make a simple item.
TEKS student expectation: 2.11(A); 2.11(B); 2.11(C); 2.11(D); 2.11(E); 2.11(F) · saving over time, deposits and withdrawals, borrowing and lending, and producers and consumers
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