Bath School Department 2003
Content Area: Mathematics
Grade 2

Topic: A. Numbers and Number Sense:
Students will understand and demonstrate a sense of what numbers mean and how they are used.
Common Assessment(s):
MAP Task: Numbers Around Us
Performance Indicators
Students will be able to:
Essential Elements
(Specific grade level learning objectives)
Suggested
Performance Activities
Suggested
Classroom Assessments
Vocabulary

1. Demonstrate an understanding of what numbers mean (e.g., that the number 7 stands for a group of objects).

Demonstrate the relationship between a number and concrete objects or drawings representing that number.

Create a variety of experiences for the students to learn and demonstrate numbers. i.e. base ten blocks , toothpicks bundles and toothpicks, bean sticks, etc.

Using Base Ten Blocks and a large piece of construction paper divided into 3 side by side sections. Label the sections from the right as ones, tens, and hundreds. Students will roll dice. They will identify the value of the number of dice and place the value of the dice on the paper using base ten blocks or counters/tiles/blocks/etc. valued as one, tens, hundreds. They will trade 10 Ones for 1 Ten and 10 Tens for 1 Hundred until they get to 1,000/10 Hundreds. The student will be able to tell the teacher or a partner the value of Base Ten Blocks at any given time during the activity.

Resource:
Race For A Flat pg. 183 in Marilyn Burns
Math By All Means/ Place Value Grade 2 (1994) is a similar activity to the one above.

The student will be given three different numbers and will need to write and represent them using concrete objects or drawing them.

number
group
number line
odd/even
base 10 blocks
fractions (whole and parts)

2. Understand the many uses of number (e.g., prices, recipes, measurement, directions in play.

Understand

  • Liquid measure
  • Money values to $1.00
  • Linear measurement
  • (inches and centimeters)
  • Ordinal Numbers
  • Time

Brainstorm a list of where you see numbers throughout your day

Chart and discuss things brought in from home that have numbers on it i.e. food items, recipes, instructions

Students will complete this writing prompt:
Tell about and illustrate the many ways numbers are used in your life.

MAP task
Numbers Around Us
This link brings you to MAP Tasks (Maine Assessment
Portfolio Tasks
includes the task,
teacher notes and scoring
rubric.). Click on select a Discipline. Then select Mathematics Grade PK-2.

*ordinal numbers
first, second, etc.
Dollars,
cents
pounds,
ounces
quarts
cups
pints
gallons
liters
tablespoon
(tbs. or tb)
teaspoon tsp.
inches
feet/foot
yard
meters
centimeters
weigh
measure
length

3. Order, compare, read, group, and apply place value concepts to numbers up to 1,000. 

Identify and use:

  • order/ordering
  • Place value to 100
  • number line
  • counting
  • pattern
  • skip counting
  • positions: before/after
  • between
  • compare
  • categories
  • group
  • label

The student will write a one digit number on 3 separate cards. Then they will mix them up. Next they will place the cards in a row and write and tell the number that the 3 cards represent. Students will trade their cards with other children in the room and do the activity again.
Resource:
Houghton-Mifflin 1995
Three Card Mix
number sequence.

Play the game High/Low. Students have a sheet of paper lined with Hundreds, Tens and Ones. Teacher uses a large deck of playing cards and holds up one card after telling the students whether they are going for the highest total number or the lowest total number. Children decide what column to put the digit in. Teacher holds up another card and repeats the task until she has held up three digits to complete the number. At the end each round the teacher asks what the highest number could have been and what the lowest could have been.

Using Base Ten Blocks and a large piece of construction paper divided into 3 side by side sections. Label the sections from the right as ones, tens, and hundreds. Students will roll dice. They will identify the value of the number of dice and place the value of the dice on the paper using base ten blocks or counters/tiles/blocks/etc. valued as one, tens, hundreds. They will trade 10 Ones for 1 Ten and 10 Tens for 1 Hundred until they get to 1,000/10 Hundreds. The student will be able to tell the teacher or a partner the value of Base Ten Blocks at any given time during the activity.

Resource:
Race For A Flat pg. 183 in Marilyn Burns
Math By All Means/ Place Value Grade 2 (1994) is a similar activity to the one above.
Marilyn Burns
Math By All Means/ Place Value Grade 2 (1994) p. 22-35 Locating Numbers on the 0-99 chart.

Students fill in the blanks of a 100's chart (orally or in
writing).

Given two numbers students will identify the first number as greater than or less than.

Students will name the place value of given numbers.
Teacher observation for oral understanding.

Lad Task:
Freckled Friends.pdf

tens
ones
hundreds
thousands
base ten blocks
unit
set

4. Determine reasonableness of results when working with quantities.

Understanding of
estimating and predicting

Students will practice estimating quantities of materials in various containers and checking their estimations by counting , measuring, weighing, etc.

Students will estimate the answers to addition and subtraction problems and then do the mathematical computation. They can check their calculations with a calculator.

Pumpkin Video
8 mg-loads slowly

Resource:
Investigations with Raisins p.129 About Teaching Mathematics A K-8 Resource by Marilyn Burns

Similar experiment: Students will be given a unopened fun size package of M&Ms and a single M&M to help guide their estimation. They will estimate and record a reasonable amount of M&Ms for the package. Then they will check their estimate by opening and counting M&Ms.
They will then explain their reasoning and why it was correct or not correct.

Lad Task: Guess How Many

See C. 1 For a related task.

estimate
greater
less than
fewer
predict