Common Core Math Standards For Second Grade (Page 4 of 4) in pdf

Common Core Math Standards For Second Grade Page 4

Speaking and Listening Standards for Second Grade

Geometry and Spatial Sense

The standards explain what children should be able to understand and do by the end of each grade.

The box on the left lists the standards teachers are using, and the box on the right is what you can do

at home to support what children are learning in the classroom

What does this mean and what can I do at home to help my child

develop these skills?

 Help your child become familiar with shapes – triangles (3

sides), quadrilaterals (4 sides), pentagons (fives sides),

hexagons (six sides) and cubes (box shaped solid object with

six identical square faces). Ask him to find those shapes in

books and in your travels around town.

 Play with rectangles. Divide one into rows and columns of

same size squares and ask your child to count them

Each section is one fourth

 Partition circles and rectangles in 2, 3, or 4 equal shares.

Help your child to understand that if an item is partitioned

into 2 equal sections, they are called halves, 3 equal

sections are called thirds, and four equal sections are called

fourths. Two halves would make a whole, three thirds

would make a whole, and four fourths would make a whole.

 Help your child see that he can have half of one item and

half or a different item, and they may not be the same size

Each section is one half

or shape.

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