Curriculum Grade 2

General development

1. Fine motor skills: shading and tracing
2. Attention and Concentration
   • Breaking the code puzzles
   • Find the differences
   • Find identical pictures
3. Using coordinates

Arithmetic

1. Addition and Subtraction of 2-digit numbers
   • Standard algorithm
   • Mental math strategies: adding and subtracting compatible numbers, rounding, adding and subtracting parts
2. Multiplication and Division
   • Understanding the concept of multiplication as repeated addition
   • Multiplication tables
   • Introduction to division
3. Number Sense
   • Understanding of 3-digit numbers. Value and place value
   • Guess the number puzzles
   • Missing numbers puzzles
   • Math path
4. Counting money

Geometry

1. Identifying basic plane figures
   1. Lines: straight and curved
   2. Polygons
2. Identifying basic types of solids
   • Vertices, edges and faces of polyhedrons
   • Shapes with curved surfaces
3. Development of spatial and geometric thinking
   • Match by shape
   • Dissections of squares
   • Copying and transforming designs on a grid
   • Introduction to unicursal tracing
   • Counting cubes problems
   • Spatial reasoning problems

Logic

1. Logic grids problems
2. Introduction to sets and Venn diagrams
3. Relations and ordering
4. Grouping and classification of objects
5. Analogies and patterns
6. More difficult logic problems: pigeonhole principle, fencepost error
7. Challenging competition-style logic problems

Word problems

One and two-step word problems involving addition, subtraction and multiplication of whole numbers

Algebraic thinking

1. Algebra shape puzzles
2. Balance puzzles

Investigation and math Olympiad problems

1. Various types of investigation problems
2. Math Kangaroo and CML problems