Maths for 2nd Class

From secure facts within 20 to two-digit addition within 99, finishing at renaming. Pupils build a toolkit of strategies and end by choosing the right strategy for a story sum, with the meaning of plus, equals and a missing part voiced throughout.

From secure subtraction facts within 20 to two-digit subtraction within 99, finishing at renaming. Pupils meet subtraction's two faces, take-away and difference, count up across a small gap, and use fact families to check any answer.

The hundred square ends at 100 and the counting does not. Pupils trade ten tens for one hundred, meet the hundreds column, and learn to count past 100, then read, write, build, partition, compare and place numbers to 199.

Patterns get rules and number sentences get meaning. Pupils name the unit of a repeating pattern, grow and shrink shape patterns, read skip-count sequences and say their rules, then treat the equals sign as a balance and hunt missing numbers within 20.

Fair shares grow into named fractions. Pupils re-anchor the half, meet the quarter, learn to write one-half and one-quarter, and discover the block's big equivalence, that two quarters make one half. Halving and quartering small amounts turns the idea into a tool for sharing.

Pupils examine and sort 2-D and 3-D shapes by their properties, then set shapes moving: folding to find lines of symmetry, sliding, flipping and turning, and completing symmetrical pictures. The block closes on location, describing position and reading a simple grid.

Pupils move from comparing directly to measuring with fair, standard units, and meet the estimate-then-measure habit that runs through every one. A first gentle look at area by covering with square tiles closes the measuring picture. The ruler joins the desk kit for this block.

Pupils extend clock reading past o'clock and half past to the quarter hours, then meet the calendar as a grid where each row is a week and each column a day, learning to find and order dates and count how many days something lasts.

Money puts numbers to work in the class shop and the club stall. Pupils meet every coin from 1c to the two-euro coin, learn one euro is a hundred cent, build amounts many ways, total a mixed purse, write euro and cent together, add prices within two euro, and find change by counting up.

Data lets the class answer its own questions with evidence, carried from a good question to a chart that gives the answer. Pupils pose a tidy question, tally and total, then show the data three ways, reading and comparing the charts to close Stage 2 data.