Skills available for New York second-grade math standards

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2.PS Problem Solving
  • Students will build new mathematical knowledge through problem solving.
  • 2.PS.1 Explore, examine, and make observations about a social problem or mathematical situation
  • 2.PS.2 Interpret information correctly, identify the problem, and generate possible solutions
  • Students will solve problems that arise in mathematics and in other contexts.
  • 2.PS.3 Act out or model with manipulatives activities involving mathematical content from literature and/or story telling
  • 2.PS.4 Formulate problems and solutions from everyday situations (e.g., counting the number of children in the class, using the calendar to teach counting).
  • Students will apply and adapt a variety of appropriate strategies to solve problems.
  • 2.PS.5 Use informal counting strategies to find solutions
  • 2.PS.6 Experience teacher-directed questioning process to understand problems
  • 2.PS.7 Compare and discuss ideas for solving a problem with teacher and/or students to justify their thinking
  • 2.PS.8 Use manipulatives (e.g., tiles, blocks) to model the action in problems
  • 2.PS.9 Use drawings/pictures to model the action in problems
  • Students will monitor and reflect on the process of mathematical problem solving.
  • 2.PS.10 Explain to others how a problem was solved, giving strategies and justifications
2.RP Reasoning and Proof
  • Students will recognize reasoning and proof as fundamental aspects of mathematics.
  • 2.RP.1 Understand that mathematical statements can be true or false
  • 2.RP.2 Recognize that mathematical ideas need to be supported by evidence
  • Students will make and investigate mathematical conjectures.
  • 2.RP.3 Investigate the use of knowledgeable guessing as a mathematical tool
  • 2.RP.4 Explore guesses, using a variety of objects and manipulatives
  • Students will develop and evaluate mathematical arguments and proofs.
  • 2.RP.5 Justify general claims, using manipulatives
  • 2.RP.6 Develop and explain an argument verbally or with objects
  • 2.RP.7 Listen to and discuss claims other students make
  • Students will select and use various types of reasoning and methods of proof.
  • 2.RP.8 Use trial and error strategies to verify claims
2.CM Communication
  • Students will organize and consolidate their mathematical thinking through communication.
  • 2.CM.1 Understand how to organize their thought processes
  • 2.CM.2 Verbally support their reasoning and answer
  • Students will communicate their mathematical thinking coherently and clearly to peers, teachers, and others.
  • 2.CM.3 Share mathematical ideas through the manipulation of objects, drawings, pictures, charts, and symbols in both written and verbal explanations
  • Students will analyze and evaluate the mathematical thinking and strategies of others.
  • 2.CM.4 Listen to solutions shared by other students
  • 2.CM.5 Formulate mathematically relevant questions
  • Students will use the language of mathematics to express mathematical ideas precisely.
  • 2.CM.6 Use appropriate mathematical terms, vocabulary, and language
2.CN Connections
2.R Representation
  • Students will create and use representations to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas.
  • 2.R.1 Use multiple representations, including verbal and written language, acting out or modeling a situation, drawings, and/or symbols as representations
  • 2.R.2 Share mental images of mathematical ideas and understandings
  • 2.R.3 Use standard and nonstandard representations
  • Students will select, apply, and translate among mathematical representations to solve problems.
  • 2.R.4 Connect mathematical representations with problem solving
  • Students will use representations to model and interpret physical, social, and mathematical phenomena.
  • 2.R.5 Use mathematics to show and understand physical phenomena (e.g., estimate and represent the number of apples in a tree)
  • 2.R.6 Use mathematics to show and understand social phenomena (e.g., count and represent sharing cookies between friends)
  • 2.R.7 Use mathematics to show and understand mathematical phenomena (e.g., draw pictures to show a story problem or show number value using fingers on your hand)
2.N Number Sense and Operations
2.A Algebra
2.G Geometry
2.M Measurement
2.S Statistics and Probability