Solve Addition and Subtraction Real-World Problems

Use addition and subtraction to solve everyday word problems.

2nd Grade - Math - One Step-Addition & Subtraction

About This Skill

Students solve real-world problems by applying addition and subtraction within 100. They read and understand word problems, choose the right operation, and explain their thinking with pictures, numbers, or words.

Skills & Topics

  • Number Sense and Operations
  • Problem Solving and Logic
  • Whole Numbers
  • Addition
  • Quantities
  • Subtraction
  • More Than
  • Add
  • Addend
  • Adding
  • Subtract

Curriculum Alignment

  • AC9M2N06: use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving additive and multiplicative situations, including money transactions; represent situations and choose calculation strategies; interpret and communicate solutions in terms of the situation
  • ENG-MATH-Y2-AS.1: Solve problems with addition and subtraction using concrete objects and pictorial representations, including those involving numbers, quantities and measures.
  • NY-2.OA.1a
  • 2.OA.A.1: Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
  • 2.OA.A.1
  • MA.2.AR.1.1
  • MATH.2.4.C
  • G2.B2.4
  • ZA.CAPS.MATH.G2.NOR.1.7
  • BC.MATH.G2.CONTENT.06
  • AB.MATH.G2.MAT2-OI1-GQ2-LO1

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