Second Grade FOCUS: Math
Quarter 4
Thinking and Academic Success Skills: Persistence and Synthesis
What question do we ask ourselves?
 How can describing the outcome of a goal motivate
you?
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How does identifying what you know or can do help
you set an achievable and challenging goal?
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How do organizing or combining ideas or information
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Why are we learning this?
 We want to be able to understand why
we use the algorithm to solve addition
and subtraction.
help you create something new or solve a problem?
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How can trying a strategy or choosing a different
strategy help you reach your goal?
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We want to be able to recognize and
compose shapes by their
characteristics.
What words do we need to know to master the objectives?
compose
decompose
thousand
hundreds
tens
ones
addition
subtraction
square
circle
triangle
hexagon
quadrilateral
pentagon
cube
How will we learn these things?
We work in cooperative small groups to collaborate.
We will work independently.
We will use appropriate vocabulary.
We will classify shapes by their attributes.
We will identify and practice the steps and strategies for
composing and decomposing.
What resources will we use?
*ThHTO Chart
*Number Line
*Hundreds/Thousands Chart
*2 and 3 Dimensional Shapes
*Base Ten Blocks
*Technology
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