math

Our progress monitoring folders will go home 3 times a year: October, January/February, and March/April. These folders will provide parents with standards based progress monitoring on essentials for reading and math. These also provide parents with grade level resources to support you and your child at home based on these essential skills. 

Click here for the 2nd grade home resources for our math essentials.

Support for math at home.

In second grade, math is still very fundamental as we are still using manipulatives, objects, and pictures to teach. Students will come in to second grade learning basic facts using 2 digit numbers and will leave second grade adding and subtracting 3 digit numbers. You will notice that we do not teach the standard algorithm, instead we meet student's developmental needs by teaching them a variety of strategies. By teaching a variety of strategies we are able to teach students to be flexible in their thinking and we are also able to meet the needs of each students as everyone learns in different ways. Take a look at the videos below to see the different strategies and learn why we teach this way.

One of the online resources we use the most in math is now accessible from home! If you'd like to log your child into Zearn from home, here is how: login information 

Math Strategy Videos:

Why do we teach math this way?

Video: https://youtu.be/mNL2uB5BeOE

Pictorial Addition, with and without regrouping:

Video:  https://youtu.be/3p2EC37kbqw 

Pictorial Subtraction, with and without regrouping: 

Video:  https://youtu.be/JCelPNctji8 

Expanded Addition, with and without regrouping:

Video:  https://youtu.be/E_QX8j_ylGk

Expanded Subtraction, with and without regrouping:

Video:https://youtu.be/lg-hXhdt23o