Second Grade Math with Confidence Instructor Guide
This Second Grade Math with Confidence Instructor Guide includes scripted, open-and-go plans. It will give you the tools you need to teach math with confidence―even if you’ve never taught math before. Short, engaging, and hands-on lessons will help your child develop a strong understanding of second grade math, step-by-step.
- reading, writing, and comparing numbers to 1000
- adding and subtracting 2- and 3-digit numbers
- solving addition and subtraction word problems
- telling time, counting money, and measuring length
- reading graphs, identifying 2-D and 3-D shapes, and understanding simple fractions
Your child will develop both strong number sense and a positive attitude toward math with fun activities like Pretend Restaurant, Measurement Tag, and Fraction Bump. All you’ll need are this Instructor Guide, the Student Workbook, and simple household items (like play money, base-ten blocks, a clock, and a ruler) to make math come alive for your child.
- Short, hands-on, and developmentally-appropriate lessons
- Games and pretend activities make math fun
- Easy to use, with clear directions and explanatory notes
- Delightful (and optional) weekly enrichment lessons, with picture book recommendations and real-life math extension activities
- Memory work and daily review to ensure children retain what they’ve learned and master essential skills
Author Kate Snow’s placement help for Second Grade Math with Confidence:
Most children are ready to start Second Grade Math with Confidence when they are 7 years old. Your child is ready if he can:
- Count to 100 by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s.
- Read, write, and compare 2-digit numbers.
- Understand the meaning of the tens-place and ones-place in 2-digit numbers.
- Write simple addition and subtraction equations, and solve simple word problems with single-digit numbers.
- Know most of the addition facts up to 9 + 9.
- Know most of the subtraction facts that involve subtracting from numbers up to 10 (for example, 7 – 4 or 10 – 6).
- Know the names and values of coins and identify combinations of a few coins.
Click here to see the Second Grade Math with Confidence Instructor Guide’s Table of Contents, Introduction, and sample lessons.
Click here to see the Second Grade Math with Confidence Student Book’s Table of Contents and samples.
Click here for Lesson 19.5’s corrections.