CPS Mathematics Department Summer Math Learning Packet

for students entering Grade 2

The daily activities in this summer math packet focus on math concepts and skills that are central to Grade 1, including addition, subtraction, place value, measurement, and geometry.

Purpose: Just a few minutes each day spent “thinking and talking math” will help reinforce important math concepts and keep your child’s “math brain” working. Please have fun together with math!

Do: Spend 10-15 minutes per day, a few days a week, on these math activities (more if you and your child are having fun). You may complete them in any order.

Ask: ● How did you figure that out? ● What are you thinking about? ● What could you try?

Extend: Ask your child to write about what they did, thought about, or learned in a notebook, which can become their math journal.

Math Tools Youʼll Need What should I write in my math journal?

❏ Notebook for math journal ❏ Coins ❏ Pencil ❏ Crayons ❏ Dice (or virtual dice) ❏ Regular deck of playing cards (or virtual cards)

● The date ● Write some words, numbers, or a picture to

show what you did

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CPS Mathematics Department Summer Math Learning Packet

for students entering Grade 2

Week 1

Day 1 Take up to 20 pennies. Put some in each hand. Show 1 hand and have an adult figure out how many are hiding. Switch.

Day 2 Play Tens Go Fish (see directions below). Add up all the pairs. Who has more? How many more?

Day 5

HOW MANY?

What do you see that you can count? Can you count something else?

Click here to see the picture bigger.

Day 3 Go on a Shape Hunt around your home. Look for items shaped like a square, rectangle, and a triangle. Draw and label the items.

Day 4 Sort the laundry into categories (owner, color, or item type). Make a bar graph and compare the categories. How many more? Less?

Week 2

Day 1 Play Tic-Tac-Toe Make 15 (see directions below or this video to see how)

Day 2 Roll two dice and practice addition and subtraction by adding or subtracting the two numbers.

Day 5

HOW MANY?

What do you see that you can count? Can you count something else?

Click here to see the picture bigger.

Day 3 Are the equations 3 + 4 + 2 = 4 + 5 and 5 + 3 = 8 + 1"true" or "false”? Explain.

Day 4 Here is a list of numbers: 1, 5, 10, 50, 100. Add the numbers 49, 7, 22, 98, and 3 to the list so all numbers will be listed in order from least to greatest.

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CPS Mathematics Department Summer Math Learning Packet

for students entering Grade 2

Week 3

Day 1 Read The Button Box by Margarette Reid. Find a collection at home and sort it. Compare how many in each category.

Day 2 Today’s number is 35. Find at least 2 ways to make 35 using addition and at least 2 ways to make 35 using subtraction..

Day 5

HOW MANY?

What do you see that you can count? Can you count something else?

Day 3 Tell the time that you go to bed to the closest hour or half hour.

Day 4 Read Sometimes We Do by Omo Moses. Find things in your house

Draw a picture of the clock’s hands for that hour.

you can count! Find things you can count in groups. Draw some groups.

Click here to see the picture bigger.

Week 4

Day 1 Today’s number is 18. Make 18 three ways, by: (1) Adding two numbers; (2) Subtracting two numbers; and (3) Adding three numbers

Day 2 If you save two cents every day in the month of July, how much money will you have saved at the end of the month?

Day 5

HOW MANY?

What do you see that you can count? Can you count something else?

Click here to see the picture bigger.

Day 3 Play hide and go seek counting backwards from different numbers to 100.

Day 4 Play Close to 10 (see directions below). How does this help you practice your addition?

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CPS Mathematics Department Summer Math Learning Packet

for students entering Grade 2

Week 5

Day 1 How many squares are in this picture? How many groups do you see? How many in each group?

Day 2 Hold an ice cube in your hand. Count by 2’s until it melts. Did you count to more or less than 100!

Day 5

HOW MANY?

What do you see that you can count? Can you count something else?

Click here to see the picture bigger.

Day 3 Using a ruler or a piece of paper, find 3 things longer than 11 inches and 3 things shorter than 11 inches. (A piece of paper is 11 inches long!)

Day 4 Ask 5 people their phone numbers. Add the digits of each phone number together. Who’s phone number has the highest value?

Week 6

Day 1 Write down the time you eat dinner to the nearest half hour for each day this week. Ex. 6:30 or 5:00.

Day 2 Go to the park or look out the window, and draw the shapes you see. Do you see more rectangles or more triangles?

Day 5

HOW MANY?

What do you see that you can count? Can you count something else?

Click here to see the picture bigger.

Day 3 Read The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins. Find a snack to share with people in your home. Can you share it equally? How many are left over?

Day 4 Play a strategy game like Tic, Tac, Toe, Checkers, Dominos, or Connect Four.

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CPS Mathematics Department Summer Math Learning Packet

for students entering Grade 2

Week 7

Day 1 How many different ways can you cut a sandwich into fourths? Try it with real or paper sandwiches.

Day 2 Write a story problem to go with 6 + 8. Now write a subtraction problem for 14 – 6.

Day 5

HOW MANY?

What do you see that you can count? Can you count something else?

Click here to see the picture bigger.

Day 3 Play Tens Go Fish (See directions). Add up all the pairs. Who has more? How many more?

Day 4 Ask 10 people their favorite kind of pizza. Record your data in a chart or graph. Compare the results by looking at how many more like one type of pizza.

Week 8

Day 1 How much do I have if I have 1 quarter, 2 dimes and 1 nickel? Can you show that value with other coins?

Day 2 Use these numbers in a story problem: 18, 9, 9. Ask an adult to solve your story problem.

Day 5

HOW MANY?

What do you see that you can count? Can you count something else?

Click here to see the picture bigger.

Day 3 Play Close to 10 (see directions below)

Day 4 Read Lemonade in Winter by Emily Jenkins. What are some ways you could make $1.00?

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CPS Mathematics Department Summer Math Learning Packet

for students entering Grade 2

Week 9

Day 1 Gather a handful of coins with a value less than $2.00. Calculate the total.

Day 2 50 is the answer. What could the question possibly be? Challenge yourself to think of more questions.

Day 5

HOW MANY?

What do you see that you can count? Can you count something else?

Day 3 How many pennies long is your hand? How many nickels? How many dimes? How many

Day 4 Walk around your house and look for shapes. What shapes do you see? Record your answers.

quarters? Can you figure out how much each coin amount is worth? Click here to see

the picture bigger.

YOU DID IT! Please share your journal with your second grade teacher on the first day of school.

Student Name ______________________________________ Date __________________________________

Adult Signature ____________________________________________

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CPS Mathematics Department Summer Math Learning Packet

for students entering Grade 2

Math Books to Read

● 100 Days of School, by Trudy Harris ● Sometimes We Do, Omo Moses ● Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets, by Hena Khan ● Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews ● Grandma’s Tiny House, by Janay Brown-Wood ● The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins ● Monarch Migration, by Megan Atwood [In Spanish; in Portuguese] ● Sheep Won’t Sleep, by Judy Cox

● Every Buddy Counts by Stuart Murphy ● The Button Box by Margarette S. Reid ● Counting on Katherine by Helaine Becker ● City Shapes by Diana Murray ● Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly ● One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab by April Sayre ● Toasty Toes, by Michael Dahl

Also check out TumbleMath Books here! username: cambridgeps password: login

Math Games To Play

1. Tic-Tac-Toe Make 15: You will need a tic tac toe board drawn on paper and the numbers 1 - 9 on squares of paper. Take turns placing a number on the board. Try to make each row add up to 15 (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally). You can play together and try to make 15 in as many ways as you can. Or, whoever completes more rows wins. Video directions here.

2. Tens Go Fish: Remove the face cards from a deck of cards. Deal 5 cards to each player. Each player looks for cards that make 10, and they draw new cards from the deck to replace them. Players take turns asking each other for a card that will make 10 with a card from their hand. A player’s turn is over when no more pairs can be made. The game is over when there are no more cards. Both players record their combinations of 10.

3. Close to 10: Remove the face cards from a deck of cards. Deal 3 cards to each player. Which two cards brings you closest to 10? Which player is closest to 10? Example: You turn over the cards 5, 4, 3 and your opponent turns over an Ace, 8, and 3. You can make 9 (5 and 4) and your opponent can make 9 (Ace and 8) or 11 (8 and 3). It’s a tie since you are both 1 away from 10!

Other Games to Play: Checkers, Memory, Chutes and Ladders, jigsaw puzzles, Parcheesi, Fish, Crazy Eights, Candy Land, Blink, Connect Four, Legos, KʼNex, Jenga, Mancala, Gobblet Gobblers, Rat-a-Tat-Cat, Yahtzee, Shut the Box, Dominoes

Check out the Games for Young Minds website! Many game ideas, with suggestions of questions to ask your child while they play. https://www.gamesforyoungminds.com/

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