NC.2.MD.7

• If a cell phone alarm beeps every 5 minutes, how many times will it beep in 1 hour? In 30 minutes? In 2 hours?

• You eat dinner between 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. What are some possible times you can eat?

• What difference do you notice between the hour hands for 6:25 and 6:55? Why does it change?

• To make 4:45, how can you use your knowledge of equal parts to figure out where to draw the minute hand?

• What is the difference between 12 a.m. and 12 p.m.? (not just morning and night) What might you be doing at these times?

• When you are sleeping, are you sleeping in the a.m., p.m., or both? Explain your thinking.

NC.2.OA.4

• There are some flowers in a vase. Each flower has equal amounts of petals. How many flowers are in the vase? How many petals are there? Draw an array and repeated addition sentence to show your work.

• How does using an array help you count quicker?

• How would you explain to a friend how to best count an array? Is there a number sentence that can match how you count?

• Draw an array that has a total less than 12. If you add more columns would your array look like a train or tower?

NC.2.NBT.2

• If you count by 5’s, and start at 27, what other numbers will be in the pattern?

• If you start at 438 and count by 5s and then start at 438 and count by 10s, what are three numbers that will come up in each pattern?

• Starting at 100, what are all the numbers you can skip count by to get to 150? Give examples to support your answer.

• If you start at 17 and count by 10s, will you land on 100? Why or why not?

• What patterns do you see in the ones, tens, and hundreds place when skip counting by 5s? 10s? 100s?

• If you count by 5’s, and start at 27, what other numbers will be in the pattern?

• If you start at 438 and count by 5s and then start at 438 and count by 10s, what are three numbers that will come up in each pattern?

• Starting at 100, what are all the numbers you can skip count by to get to 150? Give examples to support your answer.

• If you start at 17 and count by 10s, will you land on 100? Why or why not?

• What patterns do you see in the ones, tens, and hundreds place when skip counting by 5s? 10s? 100s?

NC.2.NBT.1

• Represent the number 592 two different ways using base ten blocks (or another base ten manipulative).

• Does this model represent the number 321? Why or why not? Can you show 321 a different way?

• How many bundles of tens are equivalent to 500? How do you know? Show me.

• Are 7 tens and 5 ones the same as 5 tens and 7 ones? Why or why not? Explain your thinking.

• A number is less than 200, the ones digit is 2 more than the hundreds digit, the tens digit is less than the ones digit and two of the digits are the same. What is the number? (113)

• Sam created a number using 9 base ten blocks. What different numbers could Sam have made?

• How many different numbers can you make between 700 and 750 with a 6 in the tens place? With a 6 in the ones place?

• How are 867 and 464 alike and how are they different?

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NC.2.NBT.2

• If you count by 5’s, and start at 27, what other numbers will be in the pattern?

• If you start at 438 and count by 5s and then start at 438 and count by 10s, what are three numbers that will come up in each pattern?

• Starting at 100, what are all the numbers you can skip count by to get to 150? Give examples to support your answer.

• If you start at 17 and count by 10s, will you land on 100? Why or why not?

• What patterns do you see in the ones, tens, and hundreds place when skip counting by 5s? 10s? 100s?

• Summer started on 205. She counted by 100s. Is 808 in her pattern? Explain how you know.

• Mr. Sawyer is having a popcorn and movie party for his class.  Each student will get a bag of popcorn to eat during the movie.  If each student gets 2 scoops of popcorn in his or her bag, how many scoops will it take to fill bags for 5 students?  How many scoops will it take to fill bags for 7 students?

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NC.2.NBT.3

• Write 3 numbers where the digit in the tens place is 2 more than the ones place.

• Write the expanded form for a number that is 100 more than 546.

• List all the different numbers you can make between 400 and 450 that have a 2 in the tens place? With a 2 in the ones place?

• Using the digits 8, 3, and 7, make the largest possible number. Make the smallest possible number.

• A two-digit number has more ones than tens. What could the number be? Name five possibilities.

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NC.2.NBT.4

• Summer and Tara are comparing numbers. Summer wrote 59 and Tara wrote 112. Summer says you start at left when comparing numbers, so she says her number is largest because 5>1. Tara says her number is largest because it has more digits. Who is correct and why? Use what you know about place value to explain your answer.

• Using the digits 4, 6, and 2, create three different three-digit numbers and then order them greatest to least.

• Write three numbers that are even and greater than 300. Write three numbers that are odd and less than 300.

• Sue and Julie each have a 3-digit number that contains the digits 2, 8, and 6. Sue’s number is larger. What could Sue and Julie’s numbers be? What are two other numbers they could be?

• 432 > 423 even though each number has the same digits. Using place value vocabulary, explain why this is true.