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Utah Standards

Utah 2nd Grade Math Standards

All 34 Utah math standards for 2nd grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Utah State Board of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

34 standards

Mathematical Practices

8 standards
2.MP.1
Make sense of one- and two-step story problems, plan a way in, try a new approach when one fails, and check answers another way, like adding 34 + 18 to check 52 - 18.
2.MP.2
Turn a situation into numbers and symbols and back, like writing 45 + ? = 60 for a sticker problem, and use properties of numbers flexibly.
2.MP.3
Justify a way to add or subtract within 1,000 with drawings, base-ten blocks, or number lines, and question and build on the explanations of classmates.
2.MP.4
Model real situations with math, like using a bar graph or number line to show how many more inches one plant grew than another, and draw conclusions.
2.MP.5
Pick useful tools for a problem, like rulers, base-ten blocks, number lines, drawings, or estimation, and use them well.
2.MP.6
Explain thinking with exact math words like hundreds, tens, and ones, label measurements with units, and add and subtract accurately with clear notation.
2.MP.7
Use structure like place value and number patterns, like seeing 300 + 40 + 6 as 346 or a rectangle as rows of equal squares.
2.MP.8
Notice repeated patterns, like skip-counting by 10 or 100 changing just one digit, and use them for shortcuts, checking each step for sense.

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

4 standards
2.OA.1
Solve one- and two-step story problems within 100 about adding to, taking from, joining, separating, and comparing, with the unknown anywhere, using drawings or equations.
2.OA.2
Add and subtract within 20 with mental strategies like making ten or using related facts, and know all sums of two one-digit numbers by memory by year end.
2.OA.3
Decide whether a group of up to 20 objects is odd or even, like by pairing them or counting by twos, and write an even number as a doubles sum, like 12 = 6 + 6.
2.OA.4
Find the total in an array of up to 5 rows and 5 columns by adding equal rows, like 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 12.
Common Core 2.OA.4

Number and Operations in Base Ten

9 standards
2.NBT.1
Explain that the digits of a three-digit number stand for hundreds, tens, and ones, that 100 is a bundle of ten tens, and that a number like 600 means six hundreds.
2.NBT.2
Count up to 1,000 and skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s, like 250, 260, 270.
2.NBT.3
Read and write numbers up to 1,000 as numerals, in words, and in expanded form, like 527 = 500 + 20 + 7.
2.NBT.4
Compare two three-digit numbers by their hundreds, tens and ones, and record the answer with >, = or <.
Common Core 2.NBT.4
2.NBT.5
Add and subtract within 100 quickly and accurately, using place value and the link between addition and subtraction.
Common Core 2.NBT.5
2.NBT.6
Add up to four two-digit numbers at once, like 23 + 45 + 12 + 30, by grouping tens and ones.
Common Core 2.NBT.6
2.NBT.7
Add and subtract within 1,000 with models, drawings, and place value, combining hundreds, tens, and ones separately, regrouping when needed, and linking it to a written method.
2.NBT.8
Add or subtract 10 or 100 in their head from any number between 100 and 900, like 540 + 100 = 640.
Common Core 2.NBT.8
2.NBT.9
Tell why a way of adding or subtracting works, using place value and properties of operations, like drawings of tens and ones that show regrouping.

Measurement and Data

10 standards
2.MD.1
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.MD.2
Measure the same object in two different units, like inches and centimeters, and explain why the smaller unit gives a bigger number.
Common Core 2.MD.2
2.MD.3
Make a sensible guess at a length in inches, feet, centimeters or meters before measuring it.
Common Core 2.MD.3
2.MD.4
Measure two objects and find how much longer one is than the other in a standard unit, like a book 3 inches longer than a marker.
2.MD.5
Solve addition and subtraction story problems within 100 about lengths in the same units, using drawings like rulers and equations with a missing number.
2.MD.6
Show whole numbers as distances from 0 on a number line with evenly spaced marks, and show sums and differences within 100 on it.
2.MD.7
Tell and write the time to the nearest five minutes on both clock faces and digital clocks, with a.m. and p.m.
Common Core 2.MD.7
2.MD.8
Solve money story problems with dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, writing amounts with $ and ¢, like 2 quarters and a dime make 60¢.
2.MD.9
Measure several objects to the nearest whole unit and show the results on a line plot.
Common Core 2.MD.9
2.MD.10
Make a picture graph and a bar graph with one-unit steps for data in up to four categories, and answer put-together, take-apart, and compare questions from a bar graph.

Geometry

3 standards
2.G.1
Recognize and draw shapes with given features, like a number of angles or equal faces, and name triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
2.G.2
Split a rectangle into rows and columns of equal squares and count how many squares there are in all.
2.G.3
Split circles and rectangles into 2, 3, or 4 equal parts, name them halves, thirds, or fourths, see the whole as all its parts, and know equal parts can differ in shape.

The official Utah documents

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