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Free 2nd grade math resources for GATE
FREE Math Logic Puzzles Enrichment 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Grade
6 Picture problems that engage students to develop fact fluency and problem solve using critical thinking skills. - Level 1 includes problems with Addition Facts to 10. It would suit approximately grade one, but could be below or above depending on student ability.- Level 2 includes Addition and Subtraction problems to 30. It would suit approximately grade two, but could be below or above depending on student ability.- Level 3 includes Addition and Subtraction problems to 30 and Multiplication u
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1st - 6th
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Also included in: Math Logic Puzzles 1st Grade - 6th Grade Enrichment BUNDLE Volume One
1st Grade Early Finishers Activities | Fast Finishers Activities for 1st Grade
** This is a sampler of my 1st grade B.A.T. Book Download it to see if you can use this resource in your room! ** First grade can be tricky - kids are finishing projects & assignments at all different times. What are early finishers to do while they wait? Pull out their B.A.T. Book!B.A.T. stands for Brain's Always Thinking! Using the book, your students can complete a variety of fun & appealing activities as they finish their work or can sneak in a few minutes of Free Time! You can read
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K - 2nd
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Boat Building STEM Activities - Marine Engineer Challenges
Students will be delighted and challenged to complete these boat building Marine Engineer STEM challenges! Whether you are teaching about the ocean, community helpers, or are just looking for fun and engaging science activities, these challenges are perfect for students to work on whole group, in a small group, or even as a fun and engaging move on activity.The following pages are included in this freebie:A teacher page with detailed instructions.An “about the engineer” page with a simple introd
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PreK - 5th
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1st, 2nd, 3rd Grade Enrichment Puzzles | Free Sample Advanced Math Puzzles
Do you need a challenge for advanced 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade students? Perfect for GATE or GT, these math and logic puzzles reinforce mathematical thinking by teaching advanced students deductive reasoning skills. This set of Crack the Code© and Deductive Detective Number Mysteries puzzles contain a sample of 10 different products.*** What is included in this packet? ✅ 10 free sample puzzles from Deductive Detective © puzzles for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd students.*** Perfect for➦ Early finishers➦Differ
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1st - 3rd
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Free Math Enrichment | Logic Puzzles | Early Finisher Brain Teasers
Are you looking for math enrichment or critical thinking activities for your fast finishers? Look no further! These are easy to use and perfect as an extra challenge! My gifted and talented students really enjoy these enrichment math activities in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade. Whether you need enrichment for addition and subtraction or multiplication and division, these balance beam activities challenge students to use their logic skills and math abilities to figure out what each item e
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2nd - 5th
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100 Pieces STEM Station Challenge - 100 Days of School STEM Activities FREE
100 Pieces STEM Stations work great for 100 Days of School or any time of year! Stem Station activities use a variety of items that you already have on hand. Includes a 100% TEXT Editable Google Slides presentation to introduce students to the activity and rules. Simply edit the presentation to indicate the materials students will use, the station rules, and time allowed per station. Also includes EDITABLE STEM Stations Recording sheets. Versatile for so MANY GRADE LEVELS because you can change
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K - 8th
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FREE Reasoning Puzzles: Place Value, Addition, Perimeter, Area, Multiplication
If you are looking for ways to set your class discussion on fire, you're in the right place. Keep them engaged all the way to the end of the year! These no prep puzzles just need to be printed and handed to students for instant student to student discourse. In the puzzles they have to try to decide if statements referring to a picture are true or false. There are five different puzzles with 6 prompts each, so in total 30 problems. They vary in levels of difficulty, but the paid product is tier
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2nd - 4th
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Math Choice Board for Math Centers
FREE Math Choice BoardThis FREE choice board contains 6 no-prep math challenges - perfect for 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade math classes that need enrichment! Give early finishers the opportunity to explore these concepts in a deeper and meaningful way with this free math menu! These activities are perfect for your fast finishers and high flying students.This math menu can be used as a tic-tac-toe board, and is full of 6 highly engaging and cross-curricular enrichment activities. A variety of activitie
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1st - 3rd
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Multiplication Math Journal Error Analysis and Problem Solving FREE
Go beyond computational skills and give students practice with rigorous math tasks that will help prepare them for end of year assessments. Perfect for 3rd and 4th grade, or advanced 2nd graders, this FREEBIE multiplication math journal includes a 4 sample prompts (2 error analysis and 2 solve and explain word problems).The complete Multiplication Math Journal includes 24 unique math prompts; half of the prompts are error analysis, with an incorrect solution provided, and your students’ job is t
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2nd - 4th
FREE Math Logic Puzzle Activities Birthday
6 challenging birthday themed logic puzzle tasks that are no prep ready to print and give straight to your students. Perfect for extension and enrichment for gifted and talented and high ability students. These activities engage students to develop problem solving skills and use critical thinking. Kimberly Jayne Creates is TWO! To celebrate I created this birthday themed Logic Puzzle resource for all of my followers to enjoy ♥ Thanks for your support, it means the world!Level 1 includes problems
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1st - 6th
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Also included in: Math Activities Logic Puzzles 1st-6th Grade Volume Four Bundle
Second Grade Choice Boards Choice Menus Early Finishers Fast Finishers FREEBIE
This sampler contains two math, two ELA, one writing, and one multiple intelligence choice board for second grade. These are perfect for early finishers, enrichment, additional practice, homework, and your accelerated kiddos.
You can find the bundles here:
Volume OneVolume Two
You can view the individual products for volume one here:
Common Core Math Choice Boards Operations and Algebraic ThinkingCommon Core Math Choice Boards Number and Operations in Base TenCommon Core Math Choice Boards Me
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1st - 2nd
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FREE Morning Work for 2nd Graders
Free Daily Logic Puzzle Morning WorkWhether you are looking for logic puzzles with numbers, creative thinking challenges, or logic puzzles elementary school students can do on their own, this download is for you!In this freebie, you’ll get 5 pages of these logic morning work printables… that’s one for each day of your first week!In each month of the paid product, you will find 22 days worth of high level activities to keep your creative thinkers busy during the first few minutes of the day along
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2nd - 4th
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What's the Difference? Subtraction Puzzles for Critical Thinking
This resource is one of my favorite, go-to math enrichment activities for my little geniuses and fast finishers. As students work through the subtraction puzzles they not only develop their computation skills, but also learn important problem solving skills like problem solving and perseverance.
I hope you and your students enjoy it as much as mine do! If you have any questions, please let me know! I'd love to hear from you!
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2nd - 5th
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FREE Choice Board Direction Posters for Early Finishers and Enrichment
Do you need choice board direction posters for your students who are early finishers, gifted, or in need of enrichment? These no-prep, printable, and digital choice board posters are excellent for distance learning and can be used with Google Slides™ or printed. Pair them with any choice board, and give your students the directions they need!Printable and digital versions are both included, so it's ready to be used!What Is Included in This Resource?Three options for you to choose from:Digital Po
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2nd - 5th
Halloween Critical Thinking Logic Puzzles
These two logic based puzzles are great for deductive reasoning and critical thinking skill reinforcement. Enjoy! Please take a moment and rate this product.
If you like these, you may be interested in checking out other logic puzzles in my store. Just look in the Logic Puzzles catergory.
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1st - 3rd
Witch's Brew - a Halloween Math and Writing Activity FREEBIE!
I love using this Witch's Brew Halloween Math and Writing center with younger students. It is fun and engaging, yet it requires students to use some higher level thinking. There are 28 task cards for this center. All task cards are open ended so there is no one right solution to the problem. Students are given a number of ingredients and a total of all the ingredients in the witch’s brew recipe they are to create. For example, they might be told the brew has 4 ingredients for a total of 12 items
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1st - 3rd
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How to Survive as a Shark - FLOAT or SINK
Get this free activity to accompany the AWESOME book How to Survive as a Shark by Kristen Foote. All images created by Erica Salcedo are used with permission from The Innovation Press.
These are 2 great activities to teach and reinforce the concepts of floating and sinking. The first lesson discusses whether solid objects can float or sink and the second lesson discusses whether liquids can float on not. This ties in with the concept that the oil in a shark's liver gives it buoyancy so it
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1st - 3rd
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Addition and Subtraction Pumpkin Path Math Challenge FREE!
Want a fun open ended math challenge for your high achievers this fall? This pumpkin math challenge adds rigor and challenges your students to think! They are a quick and easy way for you to differentiate and add rigor to instruction for all students! The goal of this activity is for students to demonstrate understanding of addition and subtraction in a challenging way. I like to use these in a center or as an activity for early finishers. You will find:• 1 demo math challenge for you to mo
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Halloween Math Activities and Games + Halloween Language Arts Activities
FREE Math Problem Solving Activities Birthday Gifted and Talented Extension
7 Challenging Birthday themed Problem Solving tasks that are no prep ready to print and give straight to your students. Perfect for extension and enrichment for gifted and talented and high ability students. These activities engage students to develop problem solving skills and use critical thinking. Kimberly Jayne Creates is ONE! To celebrate I created this birthday themed Problem Solving resource for all of my followers to enjoy ♥. Thanks for your support, it means the world!What Will I Receiv
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1st - 6th
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Miss Nelson is Missing
Math Center: Miss Nelson is Missing
This freebie is provided for you to examine math task cards available in my store as well as the general quality of my work. If you feel this product would be of benefit to your students, please visit my store for the entire product!
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Literature meets math as students will be engaged and challenged with various math tasks.
Skills Reinforced
* addition
* subtraction
* multiplication
* division
* even
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1st - 4th
FREE Choice Board Teacher's Guide for Differentiation and Enrichment
Do you need engaging, no-prep resources for your students, including early finishers or students in need of enrichment? Choice boards are excellent for differentiating your instruction for ALL students! The Teacher's Guide to Using Choice Boards gives you details about why you should use choice boards, suggestions for how to use choice boards, and more!What Is Included in This Resource?Details about why to use choice boards Choice board folder cover optionsSuggestions for how to use choice board
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2nd - 5th
Snowman Matter Science and STEM Pack
Teaching the three states of matter has never been so fun! Grab some snow or shaved ice and watch as your snowman melts away! This is also a great way to measurement and process writing!This mini science and STEM includes:Lesson plan, guiding questions, book connectionsvideo science connectionschanging states of matter postersnowman record sheetchanging states of matter connectionssolids/liquids/gas snowman connections sheetSTEM Activity: Build the tallest snowman out of paper and masking tapele
Fishy Math- Logic and Critical Thinking Worksheets Freebie
Engaging worksheets help kids use logic and critical thinking to solve problems. Basic arithmetic such as adding, subtracting multiplying and dividing help kids solve problems. Students learn to follow steps in a sequence to find a solution. Deductive reasoning is reenforced when learning to eliminate wrong answers. The worksheets are first, second, and third grade appropriate. GATE inspired activities work for any student with guidance and support. An answer sheet is provided.Worksheets include
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1st - 3rd
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Claim Evidence Reasoning: "The Bad Dog Mystery" Worksheet
Students will be introduced to using Claim Evidence Reasoning to solve The Bad Dog Mystery. This worksheet follows along with the step by step powerpoint that allows students to make a Claim, review the Evidence, and lastly, determine their Reasoning with support. This evidence sheet is provided to allow students to review their work and discuss their findings with other students. This lesson allows students to analyze data, make measurements, and think critically. It is interactive and fun!
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1st - 5th
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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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