The Blake School Hopkins Campus Second Grade Web Site
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Mathematics
Here are five links to mathematical software or web sites your child (and you!) might enjoy.
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Tom Bretl's math games download page: homepage.mac.com/tcbretl/Downloads
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Pico Fermi Bagels is online thanks to Mr. Reese, a high school teacher in Wisconsin. Go Badgers!
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Daily Sudoku for Kids needs no further explanation. Puzzles vary in difficulty each day...
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Aunty Math offers a problem solving challenge every month or so with three levels of difficulty and is sponsored by the DuPage Children's Museum.
Using our birthdays as data each second grade class class created a birthday bar graph from our fall collection of self portraits.
View the Birthday Bar Graph from Mr. Burton's room.
Pocket Day Data |
Classroom |
Date |
Number of Pockets |
Burton |
September 15 |
56 |
Mr. Druskin has created an addition/multiplication worksheet
creator. This Excel spreadsheet will allow you to print worksheets
providing your child with practice using the same addition strategies (and
vocabulary) we use in second grade.
Math Games
We will introduce students to a number of math games that help reinforce skills introduced this year. We have sent home a deck of playing cards that your child will be able to use to play many of these games at home. Below you will find downloadable instructions and games sheets used to play these games.
Tens Go Fish and Turn Over 10 are two card games that reinforce combinations of 10 with two or more addends. Close to 20 provides practice adding two or more numbers. Reckon is an open-ended operations practice game where you add, subtract, multiply, divide or otherwise manipulate four numbers between 1 and 15 to equal numbers on a tic-tac-toe board. Reckon is also downloadable for your computer, both windows and mac, at Tom Bretl's website listed above. Both classes played a sample game on Back-to-School Night. Directions are written on each game sheet.
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Site designed and maintained by David Burton (dburton@blakeschool.org) and Joe Druskin (jdruskin@blakeschool.org)