DiscoverMaking Number Sense Make Sense: A Math Podcast for Early Elementary TeachersEp 44: 2nd Grade Tasks for Building a Thinking Classroom!
Ep 44: 2nd Grade Tasks for Building a Thinking Classroom!

Ep 44: 2nd Grade Tasks for Building a Thinking Classroom!

Update: 2025-01-20
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Looking for ways to make 2nd-grade math engaging and fun? In this episode, we’re sharing creative, story-based tasks that get your students excited about skip counting, place value, addition, subtraction, and more—all while building critical math skills!

Here’s what we’re covering:

🍊 Skip Counting at the Orange You Sweet Orange Factory—help your students count baskets of oranges in multiples of 5, 10, or 100.

👾 Place Value Party Planning with the Aliens of Countaria—can your students decode the alien languages and save the “Outta This World” Block Party?

🏴‍☠️ Treasure Hunt Adventures with Pirate Captain Redbeard—solve length problems to navigate the treasure map and uncover hidden treasures!

🍫 Brownie Partitioning at the Brownie Bakery—partition rectangles into rows and columns to figure out brownie orders.

📏 Measuring with the Cube Queen and Popsicle Stick King—compare measurements and decide when to use larger or smaller tools.

🍦 Dreaming of Ice Cream with Whirl’d of Swirls—build rectangular arrays to keep up with growing ice cream orders.

Links & Resources: 👉 Grab the full task bundle here! 👉 Check out the blog post here!

Tune in and let’s make math an adventure! 🎉

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Ep 44: 2nd Grade Tasks for Building a Thinking Classroom!

Ep 44: 2nd Grade Tasks for Building a Thinking Classroom!