Transcript What math do students learn? Second Grade

What math do students learn?
Second Grade
Focus on Understanding
This year’s students will be learning the
Mathematics Florida Standards (MAFS).
One of the most important things about the
new standards is that students need to
DEEPLY understand math concepts.
Critical Areas
 The MAFS have Critical Areas for each grade level,
these are the main focus of math instruction.
 For Second Grade, these are:
 Extending understanding of base-ten notation
 Building fluency with addition and subtraction
 Using standard units of measure
 Describing and analyzing shapes
 Using grade-level appropriate mathematical practices
Report Card
The most important standards for Second Grade
are evaluated on the report card:
 *Demonstrates understanding of place value concepts up to
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1,000
*Uses and explains strategies to solve addition and subtraction
problems
Writes equations to represent number relationships
*Measures and estimates length using standard units and tells
time to the nearest five minutes
Represents and interprets data in line plots, picture graphs, and bar graphs
*Knows attributes of 2-D and 3-D shapes and partitions circles and
rectangles into equal shares
*Uses grade-level appropriate mathematical practices
*Denotes critical Power Standard for the grade level.
Investigations
To help build a deep understanding, we will be
spending the majority of our time working with
Investigations in Number, Data, and Space.
Investigations in Class
In school, students:
 investigate problems
 work in collaborative groups
 use various strategies
 communicate thinking orally and in writing
 play educational games
Investigations at Home
At home, students may be asked to:
 practice an activity or game from class
 collect some information
to be used in class
 solve a few problems and explain how they solved the
problems
 solve problems in more than one way
Helping at Home
You can help your child by:
 reading all of the Family Letters that are sent home
 helping your child find a place at home to keep game
materials and directions that are sent home
 playing the games together that are sent home
Helping at Home
 asking your child questions
when they are stuck rather
than giving them an answer
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“What do you need to find out?”
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“How can you get started?”
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“Have you done anything like this in
school?”
 keeping a positive attitude about math
Helping at Home
Online Student and Parent access to math software and Student
Math Handbook
Parent Resources
Visit the District website’s Elementary Math page for more
information about the 2nd Grade standards, our math
program, and how you can assist your child:
http://www.collier.k12.fl.us/math/mcE.htm
Visit the Investigations website for games and activities to
play online:
http://investigations.terc.edu/families/doing_ma
th/games_index/