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2nd Grade Math (Kentucky Academic Standards)

Your Teacher Information Pack for 2nd Grade Math in Kentucky: the standards with their official codes, the state tests and the official links. Check what you're teaching and plan a lesson.

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State
Kentucky
Grade
Grade 2
Standards
Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics
Last checked
2026-10-21

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The standards (our summaries)

Kentucky's official codes with our own short summaries (not the official wording). Each code links to the official document.

Operations and Algebraic Thinking (OA)

  • KY.2.OA.1 Solve one- and two-step word problems within 100 with drawings and equations.
  • KY.2.OA.2 Add and subtract within 20 fluently using mental strategies.
  • KY.2.OA.3 Decide whether a group of up to 20 is odd or even and write even numbers as doubles.
  • KY.2.OA.4 Find the total in arrays up to 5 by 5 by adding and write an equal-addend equation.

Number and Operations in Base Ten (NBT)

  • KY.2.NBT.1 Understand three-digit numbers as hundreds, tens and ones.
    • a. Know that 100 is a bundle of ten tens.
    • b. Know that 100, 200 … 900 are hundreds with no tens or ones.
  • KY.2.NBT.2 Count forward and back within 1,000 and skip count by 5s, 10s and 100s.
  • KY.2.NBT.3 Read and write numbers to 1,000 as numerals, number names and expanded form.
  • KY.2.NBT.4 Compare three-digit numbers with >, = and <.
  • KY.2.NBT.5 Add and subtract within 100 fluently using place-value strategies.
  • KY.2.NBT.6 Add up to four two-digit numbers using place-value strategies.
  • KY.2.NBT.7 Add and subtract within 1,000 using models, strategies and equations.
    • a. Solve problems with models, place value, properties and the link between operations.
    • b. Add or subtract like place values, making or breaking tens or hundreds when needed.
  • KY.2.NBT.8 Add or subtract 10 or 100 mentally to or from numbers 100 to 900.
  • KY.2.NBT.9 Explain why addition and subtraction strategies work using place value.

Measurement and Data (MD)

  • KY.2.MD.1 Measure length with suitable tools such as rulers, yardsticks and tape measures.
  • KY.2.MD.2 Measure an object twice with different units and explain how the measures relate.
  • KY.2.MD.3 Estimate lengths in inches, feet, yards, centimeters and meters.
  • KY.2.MD.4 Measure how much longer one object is than another in one unit.
  • KY.2.MD.5 Solve length word problems within 100 in the same units with drawings and equations.
  • KY.2.MD.6 Show whole numbers, sums and differences within 100 on a number line.
  • KY.2.MD.7 Tell and write time to the nearest five minutes using a.m. and p.m.
  • KY.2.MD.8 Solve money word problems within 100 using $ or ¢ (not both).
  • KY.2.MD.9 Answer measurement questions by collecting and plotting length data.
    • a. Ask a statistical question about measurements.
    • b. Collect length data by measuring objects or repeating one measurement.
    • c. Show the measurements on a dot plot with a whole-number scale.
  • KY.2.MD.10 Make picture graphs and single-unit bar graphs for up to four categories.

Geometry (G)

  • KY.2.G.1 Draw shapes with given features and name triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons and cubes.
  • KY.2.G.2 Split a rectangle into equal rows and columns of squares and count them.
  • KY.2.G.3 Split circles and rectangles into equal shares and name halves, thirds and fourths.

Tests and key dates

Check the Kentucky Department of Education for which grades are tested and this year's testing dates.

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Standards codes from the Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics, Kentucky Department of Education. Summaries are Classfern's own words, not the official text. Classfern is not affiliated with or endorsed by KDE.

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