Year 2 Mathematics

Step 1 Numbers to 20

Step 2 Count objects to 100 by making 10s

Step 3 Recognise tens and ones

Step 4 Use a place value chart

Step 5 Partition numbers to 100

Step 6 Write numbers to 100 in words

Step 7 Flexibly partition numbers to 100

Step 8 Write numbers to 100 in expanded form

Step 9 10s on the number line to 100

Step 10 10s and 1s on the number line to 100

Step 11 Estimate numbers on a number line

Step 12 Compare objects

Step 13 Compare numbers

Step 14 Order objects and numbers

Step 15 Count in 2s, 5s and 10s

Step 16 Count in 3s

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Pupils should be taught to:

• count in steps of 2, 3, and 5 from 0, and in 10s from any number, forward and backward

• recognise the place value of each digit in a two-digit number (10s, 1s)

• identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations, including the number line

• compare and order numbers from 0 up to 100; use <, > and = signs

• read and write numbers to at least 100 in numerals and in words

• use place value and number facts to solve problems

Step 1 Bonds to 10

Step 2 Fact families - addition and subtraction bonds within 20

Step 3 Related facts

Step 4 Bonds to 100 (tens)

Step 5 Add and subtract 1s

Step 6 Add by making 10

Step 7 Add three 1-digit numbers

Step 8 Add to the next 10

Step 9 Add across a 10

Step 10 Subtract across 10

Step 11 Subtract from a 10

Step 12 Subtract a 1-digit number from a 2-digit number (across a 10)

Step 13 10 more, 10 less

Step 14 Add and subtract 10s

Step 15 Add two 2-digit numbers (not across a 10)

Step 16 Add two 2-digit numbers (across a 10)

Step 17 Subtract two 2-digit numbers (not across a 10)

Step 18 Subtract two 2-digit numbers (across a 10)

Step 19 Mixed addition and subtraction

Step 20 Compare number sentences

Step 21 Missing number problems

National Curriculum Links:

Pupils should be taught to:

• solve problems with addition and subtraction:

  • using concrete objects and pictorial representations, including those involving numbers, quantities and measures

  • applying their increasing knowledge of mental and written methods

• recall and use addition and subtraction facts to 20 fluently, and derive and use related facts up to 100

• add and subtract numbers using concrete objects, pictorial representations, and mentally, including:

  • a two-digit number and 1s

  • a two-digit number and 10s

  • 2 two-digit numbers

  • adding 3 one-digit numbers

• show that addition of 2 numbers can be done in any order (commutative) and subtraction of 1 number from another cannot

• recognise and use the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction and use this to check calculations and solve missing number problems

Step 1 Recognise 2-D and 3-D shapes

Step 2 Count sides on 2-D shapes

Step 3 Count vertices on 2-D shapes

Step 4 Draw 2-D shapes

Step 5 Lines of symmetry on shapes

Step 6 Use lines of symmetry to complete shapes

Step 7 Sort 2-D shapes

Step 8 Count faces on 3-D shapes

Step 9 Count edges on 3-D shapes

Step 10 Count vertices on 3-D shapes

Step 11 Sort 3-D shapes

Step 12 Make patterns with 2-D and 3-D shapes

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Pupils should be taught to:

• identify and describe the properties of 2-D shapes, including the number of sides, and line symmetry in a vertical line

• identify and describe the properties of 3-D shapes, including the number of edges, vertices and faces

• identify 2-D shapes on the surface of 3-D shapes, [for example, a circle on a cylinder and a triangle on a pyramid]

• compare and sort common 2-D and 3-D shapes and everyday objects

Step 1 Count money – pence

Step 2 Count money – pounds (notes and coins)

Step 3 Count money – pounds and pence

Step 4 Choose notes and coins

Step 5 Make the same amount

Step 6 Compare amounts of money

Step 7 Calculate with money

Step 8 Make a pound

Step 9 Find change 

Step 10 Two-step problems 

National Curriculum Links:

Pupils should be taught to:

• recognise and use symbols for pounds (£) and pence (p); combine amounts to make a particular value

• find different combinations of coins that equal the same amounts of money

• solve simple problems in a practical context involving addition and subtraction of money of the same unit, including giving change

Step 1 Recognise equal groups

Step 2 Make equal groups

Step 3 Add equal groups

Step 4 Introduce the multiplication symbol

Step 5 Multiplication sentences

Step 6 Use arrays

Step 7 Make equal groups – grouping

Step 8 Make equal groups – sharing

Step 9 The 2 times-table

Step 10 Divide by 2

Step 11 Doubling and halving

Step 12 Odd and even numbers

Step 13 The 10 times-table

Step 14 Divide by 10

Step 15 The 5 times-table

Step 16 Divide by 5

Step 17 The 5 and 10 times-tables

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Pupils should be taught to:

• recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables, including recognising odd and even numbers

• calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division within the multiplication tables and write them using the multiplication (×), division (÷) and equals (=) signs

• show that multiplication of 2 numbers can be done in any order (commutative) and division of 1 number by another cannot

• solve problems involving multiplication and division, using materials, arrays, repeated addition, mental methods, and multiplication and division facts, including problems in contexts

Step 1 Measure in centimetres

Step 2 Measure in metres

Step 3 Compare lengths and heights

Step 4 Order lengths and heights

Step 5 Four operations with lengths and heights

National Curriculum Links:

Pupils should be taught to:

• choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure length/height in any direction (m/cm); mass (kg/g); temperature (°C); capacity (litres/ml) to the nearest appropriate unit, using rulers, scales, thermometers and measuring vessels

• compare and order lengths, mass, volume/capacity and record the results using >, < and =

Step 1 Compare mass

Step 2 Measure in grams

Step 3 Measure in kilograms

Step 4 Four operations with mass

Step 5 Compare volume and capacity

Step 6 Measure in millilitres

Step 7 Measure in litres

Step 8 Four operations with volume and capacity

Step 9 Temperature 

National Curriculum Links:

Pupils should be taught to:

• choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure length/height in any direction (m/cm); mass (kg/g); temperature (°C); capacity (litres/ml) to the nearest appropriate unit, using rulers, scales, thermometers and measuring vessels

• compare and order lengths, mass, volume/capacity and record the results using >, < and =

• recognise and use symbols for pounds (£) and pence (p); combine amounts to make a particular value

• find different combinations of coins that equal the same amounts of money

• solve simple problems in a practical context involving addition and subtraction of money of the same unit, including giving change

• compare and sequence intervals of time

• tell and write the time to five minutes, including quarter past/to the hour and draw the hands on a clock face to show these times

• know the number of minutes in an hour and the number of hours in a day

Step 1 Introduction to parts and whole

Step 2 Equal and unequal parts

Step 3 Recognise a half

Step 4 Find a half

Step 5 Recognise a quarter

Step 6 Find a quarter

Step 7 Recognise a third

Step 8 Find a third

Step 9 Find the whole

Step 10 Unit fractions

Step 11 Non-unit fractions

Step 12 Recognise the equivalence of a half and two-quarters

Step 13 Recognise three-quarters

Step 14 Find three-quarters

Step 15 Count in fractions up to a whole

National Curriculum Links:

Pupils should be taught to:

• recognise, find, name and write fractions 1/3, 1/4, 2/3 and 3/4 of a length, shape, set of objects or quantity

• write simple fractions, for example 1/2  of 6 = 3 and recognise the equivalence of  2/4 and 1/2

Step 1 O’clock and half past

Step 2 Quarter past and quarter to

Step 3 Tell the time past the hour

Step 4 Tell the time to the hour

Step 5 Tell the time to 5 minutes

Step 6 Minutes in an hour

Step 7 Hours in a day

National Curriculum Links:

Pupils should be taught to:

• compare and sequence intervals of time

• tell and write the time to five minutes, including quarter past/to the hour and draw the hands on a clock face to show these times

• know the number of minutes in an hour and the number of hours in a day

Step 1 Make tally charts

Step 2 Tables

Step 3 Block diagrams

Step 4 Draw pictograms (1–1)

Step 5 Interpret pictograms (1–1)

Step 6 Draw pictograms (2, 5 and 10)

Step 7 Interpret pictograms (2, 5 and 10)

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Pupils should be taught to:

• interpret and construct simple pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and tables

• ask and answer simple questions by counting the number of objects in each category and sorting the categories by quantity

• ask-and-answer questions about totalling and comparing categorical data

Step 1 Language of position

Step 2 Describe movement

Step 3 Describe turns

Step 4 Describe movement and turns

Step 5 Shape patterns with turns

National Curriculum Links:

Pupils should be taught to:

• order and arrange combinations of mathematical objects in patterns and sequences

• use mathematical vocabulary to describe position, direction and movement, including movement in a straight line and distinguishing between rotation as a turn and in terms of right angles for quarter, half and three-quarter turns (clockwise and anti-clockwise)