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2nd grade critical thinking math cultural activities
My Place in the World Project: "Me on the Map" Geography for Kids
This hands-on geography project "My Place in the World" has kids create a visual representation of how we fit into the world. Teachers often use it with the kids' geography book "Me on the Map," by Joan Sweeney. Ideal for integrated Social Studies, ELA, Geography, Literacy, and Map Skills.Using a series of nesting circles to show the relative sizes of different geographic places, this simple but effective geography lesson helps kids sort out their relation to one another. This activity includes
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K - 5th
Also included in: Geography for Kids Bundle: Three Essential Hands-on Activities
Diwali Craft - Rangoli Diya
A fun craft activity when celebrating Diwali / Deepavali (The Hindu Festival of Lights). This activity incorporates two aspects of Diwali: the rangoli and the diya.Design a pattern (use the grid lines to help keep your shapes consistent).Write a fact about Diwali, or a message (or use the template with the pre-printed message).Add colour.Cut.Glue the two flames together and insert into the diya. Glue together.Hang.Alternatively, you could make this into a greeting card and write a message ins
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2nd - 5th
Freedom Quilts - MINI UNIT
This freedom quilts mini unit is the perfect addition to your social studies curriculum with 4 different math connections!
This freedom quilts mini unit includes information pages to give students background knowledge on the underground railroad and the use of freedom quilts, printable of quilt patterns, and 4 different math connection printables. There are also book ideas to read aloud to your class on the topic!
The following are included in this product:
- 16 information pages (these can be
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1st - 4th
First Nations People in Early Canada, Six People Groups: Gr. 3 NEW BC Curriculum
Learn about the 6 different groups of early First Nations People in Canada according to their geographic location. Learn how the environment influenced food, home, community, travel, trade, government, traditions and celebrations. Graphic organizers help students to sort information visually and compare similarities and differences. A wide range of thinking activities are include throughout.Created for Grade 3 BC's NEW Curriculum.Contents Curricular and Content Competencies AddressedIntroduction
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2nd - 4th
3/D Tipi, Circle and Welcome Pole Craft, EASY Native American Art Fall Activity
This bundle includes 3 Native American themed craft projects made for students using circles (Mandela) cones (3/D tipi), and cylinders (welcome poles) These crafts are a great way to integrate the arts with your Native American curriculum. This is three of my students favorites put together in a money saving bundle! See descriptions for each project, and check out the teacher reviews of individual items! Crafts include a 3/D tipi, mandella, and 3/D welcome pole. Great for Bulletin boards, door
Grades:
1st - 7th
Day of the Dead Multiplication and Addition Math Craft
Celebrate El Dìa De Los Muertos with this beautiful multiplication craft! This project includes a sugar skull which students can decorate. Students will be able to apply their knowledge of multiplication strategies or addition/subtraction fact families to complete this festive craft. Multiplication Strategies included: arrayfact familiesnumber lineequal groupsrepeated additionmultiplication wheel Addition Strategies included: number bondfact familiesnumber lineten frameaddition wheel Included is
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1st - 5th
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3d Printable Paper Houses Coloring Pages - STEAM Activity for Geometry & Maths
Set of 9- 3d Paper House Printable Coloring Pages - STEAM Activity & MindfulnessNOTE: this is a duplicate product, as was unable to highlight the freebie otherwise. Please only purchase once!This is the full set of our 9 Printable Paper House Templates. They are a quirky little STEAM project looking at 3d shapes. Lots of fun to be had with coloring and design the details of these paper houses.Designed to stimulate imagination (e.g. see our student creating little paper dolls to go with it!).
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1st - 5th
First Nations in Early Canada, Activities Book: Indigenous People, Grade 3
Engaging activities on First Nations in Early Canada include: read, complete graphic organizers, play with words, critical thinking, crosswords, word search PLUS more. This book of activities was created as a companion to "Early First Nations People of Canada". Use for "fast finishers". The booklet may also stand alone. Grade 3 Social Studies curriculum. Great for differentiated learning. Answer keys provided.Activities Include:examine and interpret tipi designscritical thinking exercise on the
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Mardi Gras Mini Pack (Informational Booklet, Craft, Puzzles)
This Mardi Gras Mini Pack would be a great way to introduce the holiday in your classroom. It's designed with grades 2-5 in mind.
This download includes:
*Mini Informational Booklet that covers the history of Mardi Gras and how it is celebrated
*Design your own Mardi Gras mask templates
*Color by Numbers page (2 versions: 1 is two-digit addition/subtraction and 1 is multiplication/division)
*Vocabulary Word Search
*Creating Words Page
How I use this product in my Classroom:
I use the booklet
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Games Around the World
Connect children to their peers around the world through versions of traditional games like tag, hopscotch, tic-tac-toe, and dominoes. This fun and engaging product includes 35 games from 23 different countries* for students to explore and compare all year long. Each game card includes clear instructions to prepare and play the game, its country of origin, and printables when necessary.Also included...a world map for locating the country of the game they will be playinga summary list for the ma
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1st - 4th
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South Africa! Ndebele Community—Lesson, “Painted” House Craft w Geometry
Introduce students to the Ndebele community of South Africa, and learn how this small community is famous for its beadwork, attire, and painted houses! This product includes the following, all as Adobe files:An images file in a slideshow format with embedded lessons on each slide. Lessons explore the Ndebele community and the heritage they display in their arts and crafts. There is no printout needed.An art project with step-by-step instructions for making an Ndebele painted house, full of color
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K - 8th
Also included in: South Africa! The BIG Bundle Grades 3 to 5—Crafts, Lessons & Activities
Holidays Around the World: Diwali ~ Common Core Aligned
Diwali Lesson Plan: Diwali is the Festival of Lights celebrated in India. Teachers often include Diwali in "Christmas Around the World" or "Holidays Around the World" units because teaching multicultural celebrations can give us a glimpse into a new culture. As teachers we can open our kids' eyes to global holidays AND also instill pride in children as we feature their heritage.
Use the following Diwali activities and crafts to teach your children about a holiday celebrated by millions of India
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PreK - 3rd
Picasso Pumpkins: Hispanic Heritage Month, EASY Fall or Halloween Craft Cut&Glue
A fun Fall art activity for Hispanic Heritage Month. Learn about Spains most famous artist while creating a cubist style pumpkin in the likeness of Picasso’s famous paintings. Several pumpkin images and sizes are included for student choice, including one created after Picasso's "Girl in the Mirror" painting. There are 2 pages of facial features drawn from Picasso’s most popular paintings including “Skull with Leeks. Students of all ages and abilities will have fun mixing up the face features
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K - 6th
Morning Meeting Sharing Questions- 200 Fun Discussion Questions
Do you participate in morning meetings? Do you ever get to the sharing time and find yourself asking the same types of questions or simply having trouble thinking of new questions to promote a safe and fun classroom community? This download contains 180 unique morning meeting sharing questions--one for each day of the school year. It is a great addition to any morning meeting space. You can choose to print out the master copy of the questions if you have a way of organizing the questions on your
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K - 5th
Also included in: Morning Meeting BUNDLE: Greetings, Sharing Questions, and Activities
Holidays around the World: Day of the Dead / Día de los Muertos ~ CC Aligned
As an alternative or an addition to Halloween activities, teachers can celebrate Day of the Dead with their students. This holiday also occurs at the end of October/beginning of November. Through a range of multicultural activities, crafts, and Common Core-aligned math and reading exercises, students can learn about a holiday celebrated by millions of people in Mexico, in other countries of Latin America, in the Philippines, in some countries Europe, and even in the US: Day of the Dead, or Día
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1st - 3rd
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Valentine' Day Geometry Craft | Pizza Shapes Activity | Math craftivity
Valentine's Day Shapes Activity | Valentine's Math Craft and Center | 2d Pizza This activity is included in my Craftivities for the whole year Bundle and cointains: MATH CRAFT, a fun and easy activity to encourage students to count and write the number of shapes they use to make a 2D shape pizza.SHAPE PIZZA CENTER, with templates for counting shapes. A great review of 2D shapes and includes squares, circles, rectangles, rhombus, triangles and ovals.=>Follow me to be the first to know about
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: Seasonal craftivities for Kinder and Writing activities
Ovoid Shape Northwest Native Art 2D Shapes Math Indigenous Inclusion
Learn and draw the ovoid shape--the most dominant shape in Northwest Native Art.Learn about its qualities, where it is reflected in nature and practice drawing it on various animals that look similar to the art of First Nations People. Add this project to your study of 2D shapes. The ovoid is part of the NEW BC Curriculum to study for Grade 2. A great way to integrate Math and Art.Suitable for: Grades 1-3 integration of Math and Art Please find included activities for:learning the basic characte
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1st - 3rd
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Build Your Own SEL Calming Center [Classroom Cool Down Corner]
Research shows that teaching students to self regulate their emotions and learn to calm down is a crucial component to social emotional learning and overall student success! When students have the tools and strategies to calm themselves, they can be better focused and engaged.
This resource is the perfect starter to kit to crafting a high quality calm down corner or space in your classroom!
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Grades:
K - 6th
Fall Crafts Picasso Style: Pumpkin, Turkey, Portraits. Thanksgiving Art Bundle
This Fall or Autumn, Thanksgiving and Halloween craft collage bundle is a student and parent favorite! Each lesson contains a variety of student choices, resulting in amazing unique student Art. I tested them with students in Kindergarten through 5th grade with amazing results. My grade 5 students were especially engaged when I challenged them to invent new ways of using patterns and colors like Picasso did in his “Blue and Rose” period’s. Lessons take students 2 to 3 art classes to finish, depe
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K - 6th
Read Across America with Diverse Books
During Read Across America, this is a time to explore books from across America that shows our diversity as a country. In this product it includes 10 books with different activities. Books included are:-The Word Collector (explaining powerful words)-Those Shoes (wants vs. needs)-What If... (creating something from everyday objects)-The Most Magnificent Thing (inventing one thing or coming up with one goal)-Stella Brings The Family (labeling your own family)-All Are Welcomed (writing about when y
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Cinco de Mayo Math Worksheets: Color by Number Rounding
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with these fun coloring worksheets. Students practice or review rounding concepts. Students will round the numbers indicated on the worksheets and use specified colors in the key to color the pictures.
Also included are additional non-rounding, straight ahead color by number sheets for younger kids or just fun coloring time. Featuring cute original drawings with Cinco de Mayo themes.
9 sheets and 2 answer keys.
You will get:
-3 Pinata coloring sheets (rounding to near
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1st - 5th
Grandfather Tang's Tangram Animals
This is a 15 page packet of tangram animal puzzles from the book Grandfather Tang's Story: A Tale Told With Tangrams by Ann Tompert. After reading this wonderful tale, have students try to figure out how the seven tangrams make each of the animals from this book. The answers are of course in the book. My students love to use their tangrams to figure out hoe to make each of the animals from this tale. After they crack the puzzle, they trace their shapes to prove they have solved it. This is
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1st - 3rd
Building Classroom Community:An Anti-Racist Approach to Establishing a Social...
Full Title: Building Classroom Community: An Anti-Racist Approach to Establishing a Social Justice Classroom“The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it—and then dismantle it.” - Ibram X. KendiWhen building classroom community, it is essential to establish routines and procedures. It is important to set the foundation for your classroom culture. Classroom culture can make or break your school year.This resource is intended to help you establish an anti-racist classroo
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2nd - 4th
COLOUR WORDS and INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF CANADA, First Nations, Métis, Inuit
Our busy days make it feel impossible to teach all the subjects. This resource teaches or reviews 9 basic colour words by using the Indigenous Peoples of Canada Medicine Wheel and their beading traditions. The NO PREP activities will provide your students practise in identifying the colours while learning about the culture of Indigenous Peoples of Canada - the Métis, Inuit and First Nations. The worksheets are PRINT and GO. Plus, it is differentiated. There are 3 versions of the activities: Mos
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1st - 2nd
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Importance of learning math skills in 2nd grade
It's no secret that mathematics is a foundational subject for students to learn. Math forms the basis for many other subjects — like science, engineering, and technology. Because of that, it's essential that kids develop strong math skills from a young age as it makes them more likely to succeed in other courses in the future.
Learning math in 2nd grade helps kids begin to develop critical thinking, logical reasoning, and problem-solving skills. It also helps second graders further develop their understanding of numbers and basic operations, which are important tools for everyday life. Lastly, math is an important life skill that children will use in their everyday adult lives, whether they're calculating a tip at a restaurant or creating a budget.
The key concepts for 2nd grade math
The following are the key math skills that students learn in 2nd grade.
Addition and Subtraction
Students will learn how to solve simple addition and subtraction problems with numbers up to 100. They will also learn how to solve word problems using addition and subtraction.
Place Value
Place value is a critical concept that children learn in 2nd-grade math. They will learn how to read and write numbers up to 1,000 and understand the concept of place value.
Geometry
In geometry, students will learn how to identify and classify two-dimensional shapes such as squares, circles, triangles, and rectangles. They will also learn about lines, angles, and symmetry.
Measurement
Measurement is another essential concept that kids will learn in 2nd-grade math. They will learn how to measure length, weight, and volume using standard units.
How to find 2nd grade math resources
Educators can save time preparing 2nd grade math resources with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply search the TPT marketplace for "2nd grade math," and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
Frequently asked questions
What types of math lessons are available on TPT?
There are many different types of math resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular math lessons include: telling time, counting money, addition and subtraction, and word problems.
What are some good resources for practicing 2nd grade math?
Websites like TPT offer free and paid resources for teachers who want to help their students practice 2nd grade math.
What are the key concepts of 2nd-grade math?
Second graders will learn how to count, read, and write numbers up to 1,000, and solve simple addition and subtraction problems. They will also learn basic geometry concepts such as identifying shapes, lines, and angles, and learn how to measure length, weight, and volume.
Why is 2nd grade math important?
Second grade math is important for children because it lays the foundation for more advanced mathematical concepts. It is also an essential life skill that children will use throughout their lives.
How can I help my child overcome math anxiety?
You can help your child overcome math anxiety by providing a supportive and positive environment, breaking down math concepts into manageable chunks, and doing math problems that use real-world examples.
What should I do if my child is struggling with a specific math concept?
If your child is struggling with a specific math concept, you can provide extra support and resources such as worksheets, tutoring, or online educational tools. Sometimes, visual aids like charts, graphs, videos and manipulatives can help children understand abstract concepts better. The use of visuals can help explain math concepts to kids and better engage them in their learning.
How can I make math fun for my child?
Children learn best when they're engaged! Sprinkle a little fun into your math lessons by using games, videos, puzzles, and real-life scenarios. If your class seems to find math boring or uninteresting, you can also try connecting it to their interests or hobbies.
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