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Features

  • Both forms ask the same kinds of story with different numbers
  • Solve add to and take from stories (one on an open number line), put together and take apart, compare, and find the change or the start
  • Draw a bar model for a compare story, and solve a two-step story with a number sentence for each step
  • Add three numbers by first adding the two whose ones make a ten
  • Circle the number sentence that matches a story
  • Every story uses numbers within 100 and has one answer
  • The last question (writing a story for a number sentence) is for the states that teach it in 2nd grade
  • Answer keys name the lesson and skill of every question

Skills Covered

  • Add to and take from within 100
  • Show the work on an open number line
  • Put together and take apart
  • Compare: how many more, how many fewer
  • Change unknown and start unknown
  • Draw a bar model to solve
  • Two-step stories: a number sentence for each step
  • Three numbers: the ones that make a ten first
  • Choose the number sentence that matches
  • Write a story for a number sentence

How to Use This Pack

Seven pages for one unit on story problems within 100. Page 1 is a pre-check to give before the unit, on what it builds on: 1st grade stories within 20, adding and subtracting two-digit numbers, number bonds, missing numbers, and + or − to make a number sentence true. 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 kinds of story in the same order with different numbers, for a retake, a make-up or a second seating. Each form has 11 questions, one point each, and a Score line on its first page. For most stories students write a number sentence, with + or − in the circle, and the answer with its unit.

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, reading the stories aloud. On the test, read each story aloud for students who are still learning to read; the math is what is being checked. Question 11 (writing a story for a number sentence) is taught in 2nd grade in some states: leave it out if your class does not learn it and score out of 10. Give credit for any story that matches the number sentence and asks a question. The keys show one number sentence for each story; any sentence that fits the story is right (79 − 34 = 45 as well as 34 + 45 = 79, and the steps of a two-step story in either order). 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. Read each story together, and ask your child to tell it back in their own words before solving it: do more come, do some go away, or are we comparing?

Tips for Success

  • Read each story twice: once to picture it, once to find the question
  • Ask: do more come, do some go away, or are we comparing?
  • A bar model shows the parts and the whole before any adding
  • In a two-step story, the answer to step 1 is a number in step 2
  • Use Form B as a retake after reteaching what was missed

Common Core Standards Alignment

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

  • 1.OA.D.8 Solve for the missing number in adding or subtracting equations like 9 + ? = 15 or ? - 4 = 6.
  • 2.OA.A.1 Solve one- and two-step story problems with sums and differences up to 100, with the unknown in any position, using drawings and equations.
  • 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.

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2nd Grade Word Problems Test

2nd Grade

A unit test for story problems within 100 in 2nd grade: a one-page pre-check, a two-page review, and the unit test in two forms (A and B).

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What’s Included

  • A one-page pre-check (6 questions)
  • A two-page review to do together before the test
  • The unit test in two forms, A and B (11 questions each)
  • Answer keys that name each question's lesson and skill (14 pages in all)
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