Skills Covered

How to Use This Pack

Seven pages for the data unit of 2nd grade. Page 1 is a pre-check to give before the unit, on the 1st grade sorting, tallies and graphs with three kinds that it builds on. Pages 2 and 3 are a review to do together before the test. Pages 4 and 5 are the unit test, Form A. Pages 6 and 7 are Form B: the same questions in the same order with different numbers and pictures, for a retake, a make-up or a second seating. Each form has 9 questions, one point each, and a Score line on its first page.

In the Classroom

Give the pre-check on the first day of the unit and sort the class by what they missed. Do the review the day before the test, going over each question together. Questions 7 to 9 (a class survey in a table with a total, a pictograph where each picture is 2, and a bar graph that counts by 2s) are taught in 2nd grade in some states: leave out the ones your class does not learn and score out of what is left. The answer keys name each question's skill, so a missed question points to the lesson to reteach.

At Home

Use the review as practice before a test at school, or Form B as a check after the unit. Ask your child to point to the part of the graph that gives each answer, and to say how they found how many more.

Tips for Success

• Read the questions aloud for students who are still learning to read
• Have students cross off each card or tally as they count it
• Start every bar at 0 and color one box for each
• For how many more, find both numbers first, then subtract
• Use Form B as a retake after reteaching what was missed