Mathematics — Grade 2

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Finding Addition Patterns

Students explore commutativity and examine addition patterns. Then they record known facts on a personal addition chart. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Fact Family Fun

The relation of addition to subtraction is explored with fish-shaped crackers. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Fact Families

Students use books and connecting cubes to explore the relationship of addition to subtraction. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Exploring Pennies and Dimes

Students examine pennies and dimes and model subtraction as they listen to a children's book. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Exploring Other Number Patterns

Students make and extend patterns with numbers in a variety of mathematical contexts. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Exploring Equal Sets

Reading the children's book What Comes in 2's, 3's, and 4's sets the stage for this lesson in which students find products using equal sets and present results in the form of a table. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Draw a math story: From the concrete to the symbolic

This ReadWriteThink activity begins with the reading aloud of several math-oriented stories, identifies key mathematical vocabulary terms, models math story writing, and then gives students an opportunity to write addition and subtraction stories. Students... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts and Mathematics)

Provided by: ReadWriteThink

Do it with dominoes: Looking back and moving forward

In this lesson, students show that they have mastered addition by applying the skill to playing a domino game. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Counting to Find Sums

Students model the numbers with counters as the book is read. Then they count the spots on each side of a domino and write in vertical and horizontal format the sums suggested by dominoes. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Counting in Different Ways

Students generate products in several ways, including making unifix cube trains and using calculators and hundreds boards. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Counting Back and Counting On

Students make a train of connecting cubes and write in vertical and horizontal format the differences suggested by adding to and subtracting from the train one cube at a time. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Counting Back and Counting On

Students model numbers as a counting book is read. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Comparing Sets

Students write subtraction problems and model them with cubes. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Comparing Columns on a Bar Graph

Students apply what they know about comparison subtraction by constructing bar graphs and using the graphs to answer questions. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Combining Foods

Students explore addition and comparison subtraction by modeling and recording related addition and subtraction facts for a given number. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Changes in change

Students visit a website that gives them practice in counting money. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council on Economic Education

Calculating Patterns

Students use an Internet-based calculator that is linked with an interactive “Hundred Chart” to create, extend, and record numerical patterns in different ways. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Block Pounds

Students explore the use of variables as unknowns as they solve for the weights of objects using information presented in pictures. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Balancing Discoveries

This lesson, one of a nine-part unit from Illuminations titled “Do It with Dominoes,” encourages students to explore another model of addition, the “balance” model. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Balancing

Students are encouraged to explore another model of subtraction—the balance. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics