Our brains love patterns. Patterns can be a helpful strategy and resource for young children to use. To help 1st and 2nd grade students understand the patterns of place value we often have them work with a hundreds chart. Once students learn these patterns they can...
It’s usually pretty easy for students to learn addition. But when you have addition with regrouping it can be trickier for students. Our goal as 2nd grade teachers is to help students fluently add within 100 using strategies based on place value. When students...
It’s a common core state standard that has 2nd grade students fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value. One of these strategies is the break apart addition strategy. Break Apart Addition Strategy When I first began...
The beginning of the school year is such a fun time. But let’s face it… It’s also an exhausting time for teachers. You are trying to get students settled in with routines. You are beginning to teach your curriculum. And you want to ease your students in with fun math...
When it comes to math facts for 2nd graders, they need to know their basic addition and subtraction facts within 20. They can have them memorized or they can quickly use mental strategies to help them get to the answer. As 2nd grade students learn these facts...
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