The key focus of mathematics in Year 2 is to ensure your child develops confidence and mental fluency with whole numbers, counting and place value. They will use practical resources, pictures and diagrams to develop their understanding of the four operations of + – x ÷ and to problem solve. They will learn to identify and find fractions of amounts, work with money and measures, including telling the time and learning number facts to 20 by heart, for example 15 + 3 = 18, 3 + 15 = 18, 18 – 3 = 15, 18 – 15 = 3. By the end of Year 2 they should have memorised and be fluent in their 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables.
Your child will be formally assessed in May to monitor their development during KS1. They will be assessed as working towards the expected standard, working at the expected standard or working at greater depth within the expected standard set nationally.
Count in 2s, 3s and 5s from 0 to 10s from any number
Read, write and compare and order numbers to at least 100
Know the place value of each digit in two-digit numbers
Recall and use facts to 20 and derive related facts to 100
Using concrete objects, pictorial representations and mentally, add and subtract ones, tens and two-digit numbers to and from two–digit numbers Adding several single digits
Tables and division facts for x2, x5 and x10
Use commutativity of addition and multiplication
Check answers to calculations using inverse relationships
Recognise, find, name and write fractions 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 2/4, 3/4
Recognise and use symbols for pounds (£) and pence (p); combine amounts to make a particular value; add and subtract money of the same unit, including giving change
Tell the time to the 5 minute
Identify, compare and sort 2-D and 3-D shapes based on their properties (including symmetry in a vertical line) and use vocabulary, such as sides, edges, vertices and faces
Identify 2-D shapes on the surface of 3-D shapes
Right angle turns clockwise and anti-clockwise
Interpret and construct simple pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and simple tables
Solve number problems and practical problems involving these ideas