What are your 2nd graders learning in math

[Anonymous]

What's the district?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another parent told me that second grade is largely a repeat of first grade, which seems silly.

This was our experience in FCPS, with the distinction that they tacked on regrouping (borrowing and carrying) at the very end of 2nd. It was slow.

My 3rd grader now at private had to learn basic multiplication and division over the summer to catch up to where Singapore Math is for 3rd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ I was surprised bc I always thought multiplication and division was a 3rd grade concept

It is. It’s doubtful 2nd graders at this point have memorized their multiplication tables yet.

I remember a lot of word problems but forget the details.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We just had back to school night and second grade math is addition and subtraction up to 200, then place values and then introduction to the concept of multiplication. Those are the only three topics for 2nd and the first two seem like a repeat of 1st. Is this true at all schools for 2nd?

We were told tonight, expectation for 2nd grade is addition and subtraction up to 20 fluently(a key word) . Understanding of a concept up to 100.

Yes in 2nd and our curriculum also says addition and subtraction up to twenty fluently. Understanding and writing numbers up to 1000. It seems to be mostly working on simple addition and subtraction, geometry concepts. I’m shocked there is no multiplication or division at all.

I looked ahead and by the END of 3rd grade they are only expected to know how to multiply numbers by 10. DS came home last week saying he is at a 4th grade math level and I didn’t believe him until now.

[Anonymous]

VDOE seems to have revised all the math curriculum this year. The kindergarten curriculum looks like what used to be pre-k and so on.

[Anonymous]

I was talking to my parents the other day and they were amazed at what my K and 2 are learning in math. They were saying that the expectations and lessons are so much more advanced than when my siblings and I were kids 30+ years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was talking to my parents the other day and they were amazed at what my K and 2 are learning in math. They were saying that the expectations and lessons are so much more advanced than when my siblings and I were kids 30+ years ago.

I think they are doing more "concepts" and talking about word problems and holistic math. But I'm sure your parents knew fact families by the end of 1st and by 3rd grade were working on times tables. Kids are not really practicing and drilling much now, just talking about what they think and how to problem solve.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We just had back to school night and second grade math is addition and subtraction up to 200, then place values and then introduction to the concept of multiplication. Those are the only three topics for 2nd and the first two seem like a repeat of 1st. Is this true at all schools for 2nd?

That's about right for the age. Get the basics down pat before tacking mult-division otherwise you risk setting them years behind and a trainwreck.

Mult/Div is based upon repeated addition/subtraction, so without that fundamental basis mastered, it won't work. Then when they tackle decimals, fractions, etc. they really crash without a good foundation.

Use flash cards to help them improve at home. Best $10 you will ever spend on your kids education is a set of flash cards for Add/Sub/Mult/Div.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My third grader was doing double digit multiplication at the end of last year (2nd grade).

In school or at home?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Measurements were the only new thing for my kids in 2nd grade. Everything else was review because we accelerate them on the side during the school year and over the summer. We are not atypical. Public elementary school pacing is just too slow for anybody even slightly above average.

Public was fine for me and I went to MIT. I looked through my old elementary worksheets recently and my kids are ahead of where I was.

Thank you for this. All the handwringing about education here is nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ I was surprised bc I always thought multiplication and division was a 3rd grade concept

It is. It’s doubtful 2nd graders at this point have memorized their multiplication tables yet.

I remember a lot of word problems but forget the details.

When I was in 2nd we were working on memorizing the tables at the end of the year, but I'm not sure we really had the concept down. Just the numbers.

Singapore Math teaches the concept of both multiplication and division at the end of 2nd, but using only the easier lines in the tables (1, 2, 5, 10).

FCPS did through borrowing and carrying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My third grader was doing double digit multiplication at the end of last year (2nd grade).

In school or at home?

At school, but this is a private school known for math acceleration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My third grader was doing double digit multiplication at the end of last year (2nd grade).

In school or at home?

At school, but this is a private school known for math acceleration.

If in the dmv can you share the name of the private? We are starting to look to apply this fall and math comes easily to my son so we are interested in schools with acceleration. Thanks.

[mike314]

Common core also includes other topics like.
Measurement and Data (length, time, money).
Geometry (shapes, fractions through partitioning).