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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Subtracting Using Tens and Ones

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video shows a model of how to group using tens and ones, subtract, and then count what is left using the grouping. The video is followed by a series of practice...
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Starfall

Starfall: Addition Sums to 10

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
An engaging interactive math activity where students practice adding two sets of objects with a sum less than or equal to ten.
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Starfall

Starfall: Addition and Subtraction Strategies

For Students K - 1st Standards
This learning games focuses on addition and subtraction by filling in the missing number. At the end children can use the arrows on the computer to work a boy through a maze.
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Starfall

Starfall: Compose & Decompose Numbers

For Students K - 1st Standards
This learning game focuses on adding tens and ones to fill candy orders and deliver them.
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Better Lesson: What Is a Digit

For Teachers 2nd Standards
A instructional activity for students extend their understanding of the place value system. Students will learn how to define a digit and also identify a digit located in the ones place, the tens place, and the 100s place.
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting With Lengths

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders will use their addition and subtraction strategies to measure and compare distances, solving using centimeter units.
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Better Lesson: Magic of Adding Tens

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Can your students make bundles of tens? This lesson allows students to visualize adding tens to make one hundred.
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Better Lesson: Applying the Basics!

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Using base-ten materials and place-value skills, 2nd graders gain a better understanding of how to add and subtract numbers.
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Better Lesson: Put It Together and Take It Apart

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders increase their understanding of place value by manipulating larger numbers.
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Better Lesson: How Big Is a Mile?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
How far do I have to walk in order to make 1 mile? Students measure, add, and figure it out.
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Better Lesson: Bigger or Smaller

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second grade students are asked to apply two complementary processes: counting and grouping. The conceptual understanding of the place value of a number and combining/separating numbers using place value, are critical aspects of...
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Better Lesson: Larger Number Patterns

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders can find patterns in 4-digit numbers that will help them when counting over decades and centuries.
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Better Lesson: Moving Into Thousands

For Teachers 2nd Standards
To make sense of numbers in the thousands, 2nd grade students need practice identifying place value positions and using place value strategies in numbers to 1,000.
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Better Lesson: Time and Money

For Teachers 2nd Standards
As the result of a Unit assessment, it was found that students showed some confusion with writing time and with adding sets of coins. These skills need to be reviewed to aid in mastery of the Common Core standards for time and money.
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Better Lesson: Making Change Using Partners of One Hundred

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Using dimes to make change is another way to work with subtracting tens within 100.
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Better Lesson: Subtracting With Partners of 100

For Teachers 2nd Standards
When subtracting ten from a 2 digit number, 2nd graders should be able to compute the answer as fluently and comfortably as do when they add ten to a 2 digit number.
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Better Lesson: More Dimes and Dollars

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders need practice using coins and dollars and relating them to ones, tens and hundreds. Common Core standards include counting by 10s and 100s.
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Better Lesson: Balancing and Comparing Data

For Teachers 2nd Standards
The connection between subjects is an important one to establish for students. Communicating across subjects is part of the Common Core expectations.
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Better Lesson: Change Unknown Word Problems With Number Lines

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders solve change unknown story problems using a number line. This lesson gives students a new strategy to attach change unknown word problems.
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Better Lesson: Mentally Speaking!

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Using base ten blocks and place value, 2nd graders explore how to become more fluent in adding and subtracting two-digit numbers without regrouping.
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Better Lesson: Patterns Make Ten

For Teachers 2nd Standards
This lesson builds a foundation for adding larger numbers which is supported by the Common Core standards for second grade.
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Better Lesson: We Can Guess the Number

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Understanding place value is critical to the Common Core Standards for second grade. Without a concrete understanding, 2nd graders may not fully grasp the meaning of the digits.
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Better Lesson: Hundreds, Tens, Ones Are Coins Too

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders will extend their understanding of hundreds, tens and ones using dollars, dimes and pennies as another way to express groups of 100, 10 and 1.
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Better Lesson: Moving Along in Tens

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Grouping by tens reinforces the understanding of place value