2nd grade math test: a free 10-question quick check

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What the questions cover

The ten questions sample 2nd grade: place value, a word problem, a subtraction fact, measuring with a ruler in inches and centimeters, a bar graph, naming a shape, rows of squares in a grid and cutting shapes into equal pieces. Most show a picture, several ask your child to check someone else’s answer and one asks your child to type a number. You can read the questions aloud, since this checks math, not reading.

The whole year covers these areas:

• Place value to 1,000

  The center of 2nd grade. Your child learns that the digits of a number like 706 mean 7 hundreds, 0 tens and 6 ones, and that 100 is a bundle of ten tens.

• Adding and subtracting to 1,000

  Your child adds and subtracts two-digit numbers quickly, then moves to three-digit numbers with blocks and drawings. This is where regrouping comes in: trading 10 ones for a ten, or a ten for 10 ones.

• Addition and subtraction facts

  By the end of 2nd grade, your child should know every sum of two one-digit numbers by heart, such as 8 + 7 = 15, and subtract within 20 quickly.

• Word problems

  Story problems with adding and subtracting within 100, in one or two steps. The missing number can be the start, the change or the end. A missing start is the hardest kind.

• Measuring length

  Your child measures with a ruler, a yardstick, a meter stick and a measuring tape, in inches, feet, centimeters and meters, and solves story problems about length.

• Time and money

  Your child tells time to the nearest five minutes and uses a.m. and p.m. Money comes in too, with story problems about bills and coins.

• Graphs and line plots

  Picture graphs and bar graphs with up to four categories, plus line plots of lengths your child has measured.

• Odd, even and equal groups

  The first steps toward multiplication. Your child sorts groups of up to 20 objects into odd and even, and counts objects set out in rows and columns.

• Shapes and equal shares

  Your child names and draws shapes by their sides and corners, splits a rectangle into rows of equal squares and cuts shapes into halves, thirds and fourths.

Every topic of the year, explained for parents, is on the 2nd grade math page.

What you see at the end

The score, then every question with your child’s answer, the correct answer and a worked solution. A short message explains what a similar score usually means for 2nd graders on our full assessment. Treat it as an indication: ten fixed questions cannot measure where a child stands.