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Features

  • Six questions on what the word problems unit builds on
  • An add to story and a compare story within 20, each with a number sentence
  • Add and subtract two-digit numbers in columns
  • Write + or − to make a number sentence true
  • Fill in number bonds within 100, and find missing numbers
  • A Score line, to sort the class before the unit
  • Answer key names the lesson each question leads into

Skills Covered

  • Add to stories within 20
  • Compare stories within 20
  • Add and subtract in columns within 100
  • Write + or − to make it true
  • Number bonds within 100
  • Missing numbers in equations

How to Use This Pack

One page to give on the first day of the unit on story problems within 100, before any teaching. Its six questions are on what the unit builds on: an add to story and a compare story within 20 from 1st grade, adding and subtracting two-digit numbers in columns, + or − to make a number sentence true, number bonds and missing numbers. It has a Score line, and the key names the lesson each question leads into. The unit review and the unit test are packs of their own.

In the Classroom

Give the pre-check on the first day and sort the class by what they missed: a student who misses the stories within 20 needs to act stories out or draw them before the bigger numbers, and one who misses the columns needs more time with the adding and subtracting of Units 4 and 5. Read the two stories aloud for students who are still learning to read. A low score is no surprise; it shows where to start.

At Home

Use it to see what your child needs before the unit on story problems starts: tell small stories together (8 apples, then 7 more) and ask your child to say whether more come, some go away, or you are comparing.

Tips for Success

  • Give it before the first lesson, not after
  • Read the score as a starting point, not a grade
  • Read the stories aloud; the math is what is being checked
  • The key names the lesson each question leads into

Common Core Standards Alignment

This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:

  • 1.OA.A.1 Solve story problems up to 20 that join, separate, combine or compare amounts, with the missing number in any spot, using objects, drawings or equations.
  • 1.OA.A.2 Solve story problems where three numbers are added together for a total of 20 or less.
  • 1.OA.D.8 Solve for the missing number in adding or subtracting equations like 9 + ? = 15 or ? - 4 = 6.
  • 2.NBT.B.5 Add and subtract to 100 fluently with place-value strategies, properties of addition, or the link between adding and subtracting.
  • 2.NBT.B.6 Find the sum of two, three or four two-digit numbers using place value and properties of addition.
  • 2.NBT.B.7 Add and subtract to 1,000 with models and place-value strategies, working hundreds, tens and ones separately and regrouping tens or hundreds as needed.
  • 2.NBT.B.9 Tell why an adding or subtracting method gives the right answer, reasoning from place value and number properties.

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2nd Grade Word Problems Pre-Check

A check to give before the unit on story problems within 100, on what the unit builds on. Students solve an add to story and a compare story within 20, add and subtract two-digit numbers in columns, write + or − to make a number sentence true, fill in number bonds and find missing numbers.

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What’s Included

  • A one-page pre-check (6 questions) with a Score line
  • An answer key that names each question's lesson and skill (2 pages in all)
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