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Grade 2 Math (California Common Core)

Your Teacher Information Pack for Grade 2 Math (California Common Core): the standards, California's own additions, the state tests and the official links.

State
California
Grade
Grade 2
Standards
California Common Core State Standards: Mathematics
California additions
3
Last checked
2026-10-20

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California additions (our summaries)

California uses the Common Core with extra or changed standards marked "CA". Below are their codes with our own short summaries; read the exact wording in the CDE document.

Number and Operations in Base Ten

  • 2.NBT.2 California version of 2.NBT.2: counting within 1000 and skip-counting, with counting by 2s added to the 5s, 10s and 100s in the CCSS. CA wording differs (to be re-checked)
  • 2.NBT.7.1 California-only standard: use estimation strategies to make reasonable estimates when solving problems. CA only

Measurement and Data

  • 2.MD.7 California version of 2.MD.7: telling time to the nearest five minutes (a.m./p.m.), plus knowing relationships of time (e.g. days in a month, weeks in a year). CA wording differs

The Common Core standards for this grade

Operations & Algebraic Thinking (OA) 4 standards

  • Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
    • 2.OA.A.1 Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.1Note: See Glossary, Table 1.
  • Add and subtract within 20.
    • 2.OA.B.2 Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.2 By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.Note: See standard 1.OA.6 for a list of mental strategies.
  • Work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication.
    • 2.OA.C.3 Determine whether a group of objects (up to 20) has an odd or even number of members, e.g., by pairing objects or counting them by 2s; write an equation to express an even number as a sum of two equal addends.
    • 2.OA.C.4 Use addition to find the total number of objects arranged in rectangular arrays with up to 5 rows and up to 5 columns; write an equation to express the total as a sum of equal addends.

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Teacher notes: Operations & Algebraic Thinking

Grade 2 students solve one- and two-step addition and subtraction word problems within 100 and become fluent within 20, knowing all sums of two one-digit numbers from memory by year end. They work with odd and even numbers and use repeated addition with arrays to prepare for multiplication.

Number & Operations in Base Ten (NBT) 9 standards

  • Understand place value.
    • 2.NBT.A.1 Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g., 706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6 ones. Understand the following as special cases:
      • 2.NBT.A.1.a 100 can be thought of as a bundle of ten tens — called a "hundred."
      • 2.NBT.A.1.b The numbers 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine hundreds (and 0 tens and 0 ones).
    • 2.NBT.A.2 Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.
    • 2.NBT.A.3 Read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.
    • 2.NBT.A.4 Compare two three-digit numbers based on meanings of the hundreds, tens, and ones digits, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons.
  • Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract.
    • 2.NBT.B.5 Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.
    • 2.NBT.B.6 Add up to four two-digit numbers using strategies based on place value and properties of operations.
    • 2.NBT.B.7 Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method. Understand that in adding or subtracting three-digit numbers, one adds or subtracts hundreds and hundreds, tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose or decompose tens or hundreds.
    • 2.NBT.B.8 Mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number 100-900, and mentally subtract 10 or 100 from a given number 100-900.
    • 2.NBT.B.9 Explain why addition and subtraction strategies work, using place value and the properties of operations.1Note: Explanations may be supported by drawings or objects.

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Teacher notes: Number & Operations in Base Ten

Grade 2 students understand three-digit numbers as hundreds, tens and ones, count within 1,000 and skip-count by 5s, 10s and 100s. They add and subtract fluently within 100, add and subtract within 1,000 using place value strategies, and explain why their strategies work.

Measurement & Data (MD) 10 standards

  • Measure and estimate lengths in standard units.
    • 2.MD.A.1 Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.
    • 2.MD.A.2 Measure the length of an object twice, using length units of different lengths for the two measurements; describe how the two measurements relate to the size of the unit chosen.
    • 2.MD.A.3 Estimate lengths using units of inches, feet, centimeters, and meters.
    • 2.MD.A.4 Measure to determine how much longer one object is than another, expressing the length difference in terms of a standard length unit.
  • Relate addition and subtraction to length.
    • 2.MD.B.5 Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve word problems involving lengths that are given in the same units, e.g., by using drawings (such as drawings of rulers) and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
    • 2.MD.B.6 Represent whole numbers as lengths from 0 on a number line diagram with equally spaced points corresponding to the numbers 0, 1, 2, ..., and represent whole-number sums and differences within 100 on a number line diagram.
  • Work with time and money.
    • 2.MD.C.7 Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m.
    • 2.MD.C.8 Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately. Example: If you have 2 dimes and 3 pennies, how many cents do you have?
  • Represent and interpret data.
    • 2.MD.D.9 Generate measurement data by measuring lengths of several objects to the nearest whole unit, or by making repeated measurements of the same object. Show the measurements by making a line plot, where the horizontal scale is marked off in whole-number units.
    • 2.MD.D.10 Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories. Solve simple put-together, take-apart, and compare problems1 using information presented in a bar graph.Note: See Glossary, Table 1

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Teacher notes: Measurement & Data

Grade 2 students measure and estimate lengths in inches, feet, centimeters and meters, and solve length word problems within 100. They tell time to the nearest five minutes with a.m. and p.m., solve money problems with bills and coins, and show data in line plots, picture graphs and bar graphs.

Geometry (G) 3 standards

  • Reason with shapes and their attributes.
    • 2.G.A.1 Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces.1 Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.Note: Sizes are compared directly or visually, not compared by measuring.
    • 2.G.A.2 Partition a rectangle into rows and columns of same-size squares and count to find the total number of them.
    • 2.G.A.3 Partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc., and describe the whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths. Recognize that equal shares of identical wholes need not have the same shape.

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Teacher notes: Geometry

Grade 2 students recognize and draw shapes with given attributes, such as a number of angles or faces, and identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons and cubes. They split rectangles into rows and columns of equal squares and split shapes into halves, thirds and fourths, seeing that equal shares need not be the same shape.

Tests and key dates

California tests ELA and math in grades 3–8 and 11 (CAASPP). Check the CDE for dates.

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