Grade 2 Math Worksheets

How to work through the 2nd Grade math practice sets

The centre of gravity is Measurement, Money & Time — 173 sheets in ten sets, more than any other cluster outside the shared labs. Telling Time alone holds 55 sheets, Counting Money 36 and Elapsed Time 20. This is the year both the clock and the coins become genuinely usable, so plan for them rather than fitting them in.

Multiplication arrives gently. Understanding Multiplication (4 sheets) and Arrays and Equal Groups (4) introduce the idea; Multiplication Facts and Drills (36) and the four seasonal multiplication sets do the work. Division appears as Division as Equal Groups plus its own four seasonal sets. Do not move to the drill sheets until the array picture makes sense on paper.

Place value is spread over several small sets rather than one large one: Place Value (24 sheets), Missing Place Values (8), Writing and Reading Numbers (16), Write Number (1), and Rounding and Rounding to the Nearest Ten and Hundred at 16 each. Skip Counting, at 47 sheets, is the largest of them, and it is the set that feeds both money and multiplication.

The sixteen seasonal sets — Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer for each operation — hold 50 written practice sheets and 50 worked answer keys apiece, in the same vertical format the regrouping sets use. The numbers are sized to this grade: two- and three-digit addition and subtraction, multiplication facts, and division facts with nothing left over.

Other sets are very small and work best as one lesson's practice: Counting (3 sheets), Fraction Word Problems (3), Estimating Measurements (3) and Capacity (4). Outside the three lab sets, every sheet uses a single Practice format, with the teaching left to you. The first three in each set are open to everyone.

Where to start in 2nd Grade, cluster by cluster

1. Numbers & Place Value (145 sheets, 10 sets) — Place Value and Missing Place Values, then Writing and Reading Numbers, Comparing Numbers and Skip Counting (47 sheets). Rounding follows, because rounding is a place-value judgement. World Currencies sits here as an extra.
2. The Four Operations (1,724 sheets, 23 sets) — Addition Facts, then Addition with Regrouping and Subtraction with Regrouping. Understanding Multiplication and Arrays and Equal Groups introduce grouping; the drills and Division as Equal Groups follow once arrays are clear. The sixteen seasonal sets supply the steady written practice once each idea is in place.
3. Measurement, Money & Time (173 sheets, 10 sets) — The largest grade-specific cluster. Telling Time then Elapsed Time; Counting Money after skip counting by fives and tens; Length, Weight, Capacity, Calendar and Seasons, and Reading Scales and Instruments alongside.
4. Fractions & Decimals (35 sheets, 4 sets) — Halves, Thirds, and Quarters, then Fractions (21 sheets) and Reading and Writing Fractions, with Fraction Word Problems last. Equal sharing has to come first.
5. Geometry & Data (89 sheets, 10 sets) — Attributes of Shapes and 2D and 3D Shapes, then the data half: Tally and Frequency, Pictographs, Bar Graphs, Line Graphs and Line Plots, Data and Venn Diagrams. Perimeter and Area, at four sheets, is an introduction only.
6. Word Problems & Reasoning (23 sheets, 2 sets) — Logic (20 sheets) and Word Problems (3). Small, and it assumes fluent operations; most applied practice in this grade sits inside the money and measurement sets instead.
7. Practice, Fluency & Labs (400 sheets, 3 sets) — The same three sets appear in every grade — Core Skills, Reasoning & Fluency, Interactive & Puzzles. Use them for a Friday review, and for the weeks when a new topic has not landed yet.