Mathematics — Grade 2

Smart money

Students will practice making money trades to equal $.25 kinesthetically and with manipulatives.

Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics)

By Sherry Griffith.

Place the value

This activity allows students to create 3-digit numbers while strategically trying to "out value" their opponents' values.

Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics)

By amy cord.

Money counts

Lesson introducing counting money and making change.

Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics)

By Angie Horne.

Making change to $1.00.

In this lesson students will work in small groups making change to $1.00 using coins and pictures of items priced from Sunday fliers. In advance the teacher will cut out pictures of items costing less than $1.00.

Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics)

By Julie Hohns.

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Zero Our Hero

Students explore sets of zero items and practice writing the numbers 0 through 5. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Writing numerals to five

In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students construct groups of a given size, recognize the number in the group, and record that number in numerals. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Who's in the Fact Family?

Students explore the relationship of addition to subtraction. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Where Will I Land?

Students find differences using the number line, a continuous model for subtraction. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

What's the Difference?

Students use reasoning to find differences from numbers up to 10, using real and virtual calculators and an addition chart as tools. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

What's Left?

Students practice addition facts. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

What balances?

In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students explore another meaning of subtraction: the balance. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Try for Five

Students explore the many ways to decompose numbers and then build on their knowledge of addition and subtraction to find missing addends. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Trading for Quarters

Students listen to a book and then find sets of coins equivalent to a quarter using pennies, nickels, and dimes. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Toy Shop Numbers

Students participate in activities in which they focus on the role of numbers and language in real-world situations. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Three in a Set

Students construct sets of three, compare them with sets of two, and write the numeral 3. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Taking Away Sets

Students explore another model for subtraction, the familiar set model. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Take Away

Introduces elementary students to subtraction by creating a link between students' experiences and mathematics. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Sum Search

Students practice addition facts in a concentration-game format using dominoes. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Sorting foods

Students visit a website to play a game related to the food pyramid and sort foods using the categories of the food pyramid. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K and 2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Some Special Sums

Students practice doubles and doubles-plus-one addition facts. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics