Math Activity Choice Board for Grade 2

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These activities are suggestions from which your child can choose when they are working on Math concepts throughout the week.
They do NOT have to complete them all.
Activity #1 (N9 B.B. B) Activity #2 (N9 B.B. C) Activity #3 (PR3)
1- and 2-Digit Subtraction with Create Your Own Story Problems: Equal or Unequal
Addition You can do this activity on your own.
Ten Frames and Number Lines
When ready, watch the new video on Modelling Continue to practice 1-and 2-digit addition
by creating and solving your own story Watch the videos Equal and Unequal:
1- and 2-digit Subtraction with Ten Frames Balance Scales and Equal and Unequal:
and Number Lines on the website (Math at problems.
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Story Problems: Addition (Math at Home

To practice 2-digit subtraction, use a deck of May 25 -29 ).th th

You can use a deck of playing cards to generate You will hear Mrs. Blanchard’s voice as we
playing cards to generate your minuends (i.e., numbers for your story problems. Remember to are sharing this week. If you have a printer,
the numbers you subtract to find the remove the face cards and 10s and that Ace = 1. you can download the activity page to
difference). Be sure to remove the face cards complete if you wish.
and 10s. Remember that Ace = 1. Place the cards face down in a pile in front
Shuffle the cards and place them in a pile face of you. Draw the top two cards to create a You can also try the following:
down in front of you. Flip over the top 4 cards 2-digit number (i.e., if you draw 2 and 3, your
from your pile. Combine the first 2 cards to number is 23). Decide if that number will be Have an adult give you two sets of 25 small
make a 2-digit minuend and then flip only 1 your addend (part) or the sum (whole). If you objects (dry cereal or pasta). Are the sets
card which will be your second minuend. For use 23 as the part, make up a situation in equal or uequal? Show and explain to the
example, if you draw the numbers 3, 5, and 9. which you have 23 of something and you adult how you can make them unequal.
The digits 3 and 5 will become 35 from which want to add more (you can choose another
you will subtract 9. You will record the number card or two or just choose your own 1-or 2- Have an adult give you three sets of small
sentence as: digit number for your other addend) such as objects (any number) in which two groups
35 - 9 = ______ 35. Your number sentence would be: 23 + 35 are equal and one is not. Figure out which of
Then find the difference using the strategies I = ____. Then use your strategies to solve it! the three sets is not equal to the others and
demonstrated in the video and repeat at least Repeat several times and try using the tell how you know.
4 more times. number as your sum (or whole)!
 Activity #4 (N1) Activity #5 (N1) Activity #6 (N9, N10, PR4)
Skip Counting Problems Skip Counting Spinner Game 18 Fish
This is a partner activity. This is an activity you can do on your
This activity will look at skip counting forward Materials: spinners, paper clip, pencil, scrap own.
and backwards by 2s, 5s and 10s to 100. paper to keep score, number line or hundred
Use a number line or hundred chart to help you. chart (if desired) This activity will look at all the different
See links to both on our website. ways you can make 18 in two parts.
For this game, you will have to make 3 If there are 18 fish and two aquariums,
separate spinners like the ones shown in the what are all the different ways that the
1. I start at 0 and skip count by a number. photo. fish can be placed in the two aquariums?
If I say 15, what number might I be skip
counting by? What number am I NOT
skip counting by? How do you know?

2. Imagine your friend started at 20 and To make the spinner, place a paperclip in the
skip counted by 5s. Name a number they middle of the spinner underneath the tip of a
would say early in the skip-counting pencil. The first spinner tells you whether to
pattern. Name a number they would say start at 0, 10 or 20. The second spinner tells
later on. you whether to skip count by 2s, 5s or 10s.
You can either draw all the different combinations
The third spinner tells you whether to write to 18 or can use 18 items (dried beans, little toys,
3. Count backwards from 40 by 2s. What the 5th, 6th or 10th number in your skip coins) as fish to move between two different
is the fourth number you say? How did counting sequence. plates, bowls or circles as aquariums as shown
you get there? Repeat this by skip above.
counting backwards from 40 by 5s and How to play: Steps:
then by 10s. Record the fourth number Play in pairs. Both players spin the spinners 1. You should first estimate how many
you say each time. and skip count as indicated. The player with combinations you think will have.
the lower number wins a point. The first 2. Move or draw items into each aquarium
4. Choose 2, 5 or 10. Use a number line or player to get 10 points wins. and record the number sentence that your
hundred chart to skip count backwards fish represent
from 50 by the number you chose. What (Source: Open Questions for Rich Math Lessons p. 67) ( ___ + ___ = 18 or 18 = ___ + ___)
patterns do you notice? Repeat by skip 3. Keep track of how many ways. Do you
counting by a different number. notice a pattern? How do you know you
found all the ways?
Stretch Learning Opportunities:
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1) Use a number line or hundred chart to list numbers you say when you skip count by 2s and by 5s starting from 0. Name some numbers that
are on both lists. Name some other numbers that are on only one list.
2) Choose a number that doesn’t end in 0 and skip count by 10s from that number. Place three numbers from your counting pattern on a
number line. Explain how you knew where to place the numbers. Repeat for other starting points (numbers).
3) If 2 students are counting -one backwards by 10s from 100 and one forwards by 5s to 100, what numbers will they both say? Try this
with a partner and record the common numbers.

Additional Resources
https://www.mathlearningcenter.org/resources/apps
This is a great resource for on-line manipulatives. Students can manipulate and play with pattern blocks, ten frames, number lines. This link
has free apps so once downloaded they would be especially easy to manipulate on an iPad or touchscreen.

https://www.free-training-tutorial.com/math-games/skip-counting-squares.html
Students can practice their skip counting with this game.