Helpful Math Tips

We will be practicing counting/skip counting. Please help us out with this at home. While driving in the car, getting ready in the morning or any other free times ask your child to count out loud. You can practice the following:

*Forward by ones to 500
*Backward by ones from 500
*By 10's Forward to 500 (on decade, 10, 20, 30 ...)
*By 10's Backward from 500 (on decade, 10, 20, 30 ...)
*By 5's to/from 60 and relate it to an analog clock (always on multiples of 5)

*Once they have mastered these, try skip counting in the same fashion, but start with a number that is off the decade.  Off the decade is any number that does not end with a 0.  For example, if you start with 9, it would sound like this: 9, 19, 29, 39, 49, etc...  Another example sounds like this: 225, 215, 205, 195, 185

*By 10's Forward to 500 (off the decade, 9, 19, 29...)
*By 10's Backward from 500 (off the decade, 29,19,9...)
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Mentally add and take away multiples of 10 with missing numbers in all positions.

*23 + 10 = ___
*45 - 10 = ___
*___ + 10 = 62
*___ - 10 = 88
*49 + ___ = 59
*71 - ___ = 61

Once fluent with ten use multiples of ten (20, 30 ,40...)
*23 + 30 = ___
*45 - 20 = ___
*___ + 40 = 62
*___ - 20 = 78
*49 + ___ = 79
*71 - ___ = 51
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Finally, Please practice math fact fluency. Start with the doubles to 20 and the near doubles.

* 6 + 6 = 12
Since this is 12 what is 6 + 7 = 13


Thanks for helping and making your child the best second grader they can be! :)