Second Grade FOCUS: Math
Thinking and Academic Success Skills: Intellectual Risk Taking and Flexibility
What question do we ask ourselves?
 What are efficient strategies for adding and subtracting
numbers?
 How can you model, represent, and interpret addition and
subtraction situations?
 How does the size of a unit relate to the number of repetitions
needed to cover a given length?
 What determines the choice of a measurement tool?
 How do defining attributes of shapes help you recognize, draw
and classify them?
 How can time be represented on clocks and in written time?
What words do we need to know to master the objectives?
attributes
standard units
measurement
partition
inch
centimeter
meter
yard
perimeter
foot
equal shares
represent
digital
analog
thirds
halves
fourths
estimate
array
scale
line plot
How will we master the objectives?
 Writing and solving story problems
 Use various standard units of measurement to determine
length and perimeter
 Practice telling time to the nearest 5 minutes
 Sort partitioned shapes in multiple ways
 Work in collaborate groups, in centers, and on the computer
 Participate in activities to reinforce learned skills
Quarter 3
January 23March 22
What do we need to know and be able to do?
o Write and solve story problems
o Demonstrate and explain multiple ways to measure
length of objects (both metric and standard units)
o Partition shapes into halves, thirds, and fourths
o Tell and write time using digital and analog clocks to
the nearest quarter hour and 5-minutes
o Demonstrate fluency adding and subtracting numbers
to 20
o Choose and use measurement tools properly
o Estimate lengths
What resources will we use?
Rulers
Yard sticks/meter sticks
Measuring tapes
Demonstration clocks
Geoboards
Color tiles
Computer software
FASTT Math computer program
Commercial and teacher made games/centers
Appropriate mathematically related literature