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Add four numbers: 2nd grade math

Add up to four two-digit numbers. A free 2nd grade lesson plan, a question set with answers and a printable sheet with its key. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students can do this: add up to four two-digit numbers.

Teach (10 min)

  • Add all the tens, then all the ones.
  • Then put the two totals together.
  • Work one example on the board while students say each step aloud, then do one together.

Practise (15 min)

  • Students work the printable sheet in pairs, then alone.
  • Or practise it as a game with no sign-up: https://peabody.kids/math/numsense.g2_add4?lesson=2-numsense-add4-1&at=2

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Three questions on a slip:
  • 1. 32 + 47 = ?
  • 2. 40 + 32 = ?
  • 3. 11 + 42 = ?

Question set

10 questions that read in words, easiest first. Questions that need a picture are on the printable sheet below.

  1. 32 + 47 = ?
  2. 40 + 32 = ?
  3. 11 + 42 = ?
  4. 37 + 15 = ?
  5. 28 + 14 = ?
  6. 36 + 18 = ?
  7. 28 + 28 + 36 = ?
  8. 58 + 38 + 56 = ?
  9. 57 + 58 + 36 = ?
  10. 24 + 46 + 53 = ?
Answers
  1. 79
  2. 72
  3. 53
  4. 52
  5. 42
  6. 54
  7. 92
  8. 152
  9. 151
  10. 123

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Add four numbers (2nd grade)

  1. 47 + 45 = ?
  2. 37 + 31 = ?
  3. 33 + 47 = ?
  4. 40 + 11 = ?
  5. 44 + 49 + 48 = ?
  6. 57 + 51 + 34 = ?
  7. 18 + 48 + 34 = ?
  8. 42 + 31 + 35 + 44 = ?
  9. 28 + 55 + 33 + 17 = ?
  10. 16 + 44 + 50 + 35 = ?
  11. 43 + 16 + 57 + 54 = ?
  12. 23 + 35 + 33 + 39 = ?
Key
  1. 92
  2. 68
  3. 80
  4. 51
  5. 141
  6. 142
  7. 100
  8. 152
  9. 133
  10. 145
  11. 170
  12. 130

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