GRADE 2 LESSON:
Skip Counting by 5s and 10s
40 Minutes
Objective:
Students will practice
skip counting by 5s and
10s (including beginning
with numbers that are not
multiples of 5).
Materials & Prep
Student worksheets (one
per student)
Common Core State
Standards
2.NBT.A.2: Count within 1000;
skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.
ACTIVITIES
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1. Do Now
4. Independent Practice
Review and practice place value with ones
and tens. (5 minutes)
Students may work independently or in
pairs. For the second problem, choose a
simple physical activity for students to
perform during a fixed time period (e.g. four
rounds of as many jumping jacks or squats
as possible in 20 seconds). Have students
record their data before creating their
picture graph. (15 minutes)
2. Introduction
to New Material
Demonstrate and discuss how to interpret and
create graphs that use scales, e.g. a bar graph
or picture graph where 1 unit = 5 puppies.
(5 minutes)
5. Debrief
3. Guided Practice
When is it useful to be able to count by
5s and 10s? (e.g. when counting money
or when computing in our heads).
Distribute worksheets. Students may work
independently or in pairs on the first problems.
(5 minutes)
(5 Minutes)
6. Quick Assessment
(10 minutes)
SKIP COUNTING BY 5S AND 10S
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1
2
John is practicing skip counting by 5 on his way from school.
Fill in the missing blanks for him.
a
0
5
b
14
19
c
23
d
17
22
e
52
57
15
20
24
33
39
38
48
32
42
62
72
When Letisha runs after school, she skip counts by 10s to keep track
of the number of yards she has run. She always starts with a different
number. Help her fill in the missing blanks.
a
12
b
48
c
29
d
53
e
7
22
32
68
69
63
37
3
Dominick is saving money so that he can buy a new pair of running
shoes. He starts with $6. Each week he is able to save $5. How much will
he have saved after 8 weeks? Fill in the blanks below.
1, 11, 16, __, __, __, __, __
Will Dominick be able to buy a pair of shoes that cost $35?
Show your work.
4
When Coach Vaughn is counting jumping jacks, she only counts every
5 jumping jacks, so it sounds like she is skip counting by 5s. If Coach
Vaughn says 8 numbers after zero, how many jumping jacks did her
students do?
0, 5..