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Minnesota Standards

Minnesota 2nd Grade Math Standards

All 31 Minnesota math standards for 2nd grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Minnesota Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

31 standards

Data and Probability

5 standards
2.1.1.1
Notice patterns in information and write questions that can be answered by collecting data, like which lunch our class likes best.
2.1.1.2
Decide which information would answer a data question, and understand that people gather data for answers and that results can differ.
2.1.1.3
Choose and gather data to answer a question, show it with drawings, picture graphs, line plots or technology, and share what it shows.
2.1.1.4
Use patterns in graphs and charts to make predictions, like guessing which weather will be most common next week.
2.1.2.1
Explain how something that could happen differs from something that will probably happen.

Spatial Reasoning

10 standards
2.2.3.1
Make a sensible guess at a length in inches, feet, centimeters or meters before measuring it.
Common Core 2.MD.3
2.2.3.2
Measure two objects in standard units to find how much longer one is, and connect adding and subtracting to length.
2.2.3.3
Pick the right tool, like a ruler, yardstick, meter stick or measuring tape, and measure how long an object is.
Common Core 2.MD.1
2.2.3.4
Show whole numbers as distances from 0 on an evenly spaced number line and use it to show sums and differences within 100.
2.2.3.5
Split a rectangle into rows and columns of equal squares and count how many squares there are in all.
2.2.3.6
Add and subtract within 100 to solve length story problems in the same units, using drawings like rulers and equations where a symbol stands for the missing number.
2.2.3.7
Name pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters, find what a group of coins is worth, and find coin sets that make a given amount, writing $ and ¢ correctly.
2.2.4.1
Sort flat and solid shapes by how many faces, sides, edges and corners they have and the shapes of their faces.
2.2.4.2
Draw or build basic flat shapes, like hexagons, triangles, circles, squares, rectangles and trapezoids.
2.2.4.3
Tell where an object is compared to another using position words, like the book is to the left of the lamp.

Patterns and Relationships

16 standards
2.3.5.1
Count large collections up to 1,000 in groups of tens and hundreds, and show the counting method and total with words, numbers and pictures.
2.3.5.2
Read, write, compare, order and show numbers up to 1,000 in many ways, like numerals, expanded form, words, number lines and base ten blocks.
2.3.5.3
Add or subtract 10 or 100 from a three-digit number in their head, like 452 to 462 or 352, and use a model to explain why.
2.3.5.4
Describe numbers from 10 to 1,000 by their hundreds, tens and ones, and know that 100 is ten tens and 1,000 is ten hundreds or 100 tens.
2.3.5.5
Estimate the sum or difference of two-digit numbers, like 48 + 31 is about 80.
2.3.5.6
Solve add and subtract story problems within 1,000 using models or drawings built on place value, then connect the strategy to a written method.
2.3.5.7
Add and subtract two-digit numbers flexibly with strategies like breaking numbers apart, expanded form and partial sums, explaining why they work.
2.3.5.8
Add and subtract within 20 quickly in their heads using strategies like counting up, adjusting numbers or fact families.
2.3.5.9
Use tens as landmarks to add up to 100 and subtract from 100 quickly, like 100 minus 63 by jumping to 70 then to 100.
2.3.5.10
Solve fair sharing problems with 2 or 4 groups, name shares as halves or fourths, and see that equal shares of the same whole can look different.
2.3.6.1
Compare two- and three-digit numbers using what the hundreds, tens and ones digits mean, like 307 is greater than 270.
2.3.6.2
Write addition and subtraction number sentences with unknowns for situations, and use how adding and subtracting relate to find the missing values.
2.3.6.3
Make and defend claims about adding and subtracting using true or false and open equations, like whether 9 + 6 = 10 + 5.
2.3.7.1
Find, make and describe number patterns from repeated adding or subtracting, skip counting and arrays of counters or tiles, and use them to solve problems.
2.3.7.2
Notice counting patterns and skip count by 2s and 5s starting from any number up to 120, like 7, 12, 17, 22.
2.3.7.3
Write number expressions that describe a growing picture pattern, like 2 + 2 + 2 for three rows of two dots.

The official Minnesota documents

The plain-English lines on this page are EMStudio's own explanations of Minnesota's standards, not the official wording, which Minnesota Department of Education publishes in the documents above. Codes and strand names identify each standard.