Five pages that move from one step to two. Page 1 has stories with three numbers to add; students circle the two whose ones make a ten (26 and 14) and add those first. Page 2 adds three numbers on an open number line. Page 3 is the first two-step page: each story is two things happening in turn (Leo gives 18 stickers away, then gets 26 more), and students show each step on its own open number line. Page 4 writes a number sentence for each step, Step 1 and Step 2, and includes compare stories that ask for the total (Ben has 15 more than Ana; how many do they have in all?). Page 5 mixes them. Every page starts with a worked example.
Read the example on page 3 aloud and stop after each sentence: "What happened? How many does Leo have now?" Write the number after each step on the board, so students hear that step 1's answer is where step 2 starts. On page 4, ask what the first question hiding in the story is (how many does Ben have?) before they look for the total.
Tell a two-step story at snack time: "You had 30 crackers. You ate 12. Then I gave you 10 more. How many now?" Ask your child what happened first and what happened next, and write down the number after each step.
This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:
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A 5-page two-step word problems pack for 2nd grade, with numbers within 100. Add three numbers in a story (find the two whose ones make a ten first), show three numbers on an open number line, then solve two-step stories with a number line or a number sentence for each step, compare stories that ask for the total included. Every page comes in color and in black and white. Answer keys included.
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