Family Math Letter

Grade 2: Unit 1 Extending

Base Ten Understandings

Dear Family,
During the next few weeks, our math class will be expanding our knowledge on place
value. We will be learning how to read and write numbers up to the hundreds place. Your
child will use review place value, or meaning of each digit in a number. For example, in
the number 456, the 4 represents 4 hundreds, 5 tens, and 6 ones. Students will compare
numbers up to using <, >, and =.
Activities to try at home:
Skip Counting Collect 100 buttons or bottle caps. Count them by 1s. Group them by 10s.
Count the sets of 10s. Break apart one of the sets and count the entire 100 by 10s and
then by 1s. Count by 2s and 5s; count forward and backward. Have fun!
Comparing Numbers
Next time youre in a store with your child and they point out an item that they would like,
call their attention to the price. Find a similar item and comparing which item cost more or
less. Allow your child real world application to comparing numbers.
Reading and Writing Numbers
Base Ten Numerals
237

Number Names
973

nine hundred seventy-three

Expanded Form
845

800 +40+5

Adapted from Pearson Education, Inc.

Grade 2

June 2013

Place Value
1. Ask your child to write a 3 digit number down.
a. Then have your child circle the hundreds place
b. Put an X through the tens place.
c. Underline line the ones place.
2. Write the number that is 100 more or less than your number in problem 1.
3. Write the number that is 10 more or less than your number.
4. Write then number that is 1 more or less than your number.

Math and Literature: Here are some childrens books that contain ideas related to our
work in this mathematics unit. Look for them in your local public library and read them
together.

Sloat, Teri, From One to One Hundreds

Friedman, Aileen, The Kings Commissioners

King, David, Counting book

In our math class, students continue to engage in math problems and activities and share
how they solve a given problem. Most important is that children accurately solve math
problems in ways that make sense to them. At home, encourage your child to explain his
or her thinking to you.

Sincerely,
The Second Grade Team

Adapted from Pearson Education, Inc.

Grade 2

June 2013