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Skip count by 5s, 10s, 100s: 2nd grade math

Skip-count by 5s, 10s, 100s. 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: skip-count by 5s, 10s, 100s.

Teach (10 min)

  • Skip counting means hopping by the same amount every time: 5, 10, 15, 20….
  • Find the hop size by looking at two numbers next to each other.
  • 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/whole.skip?lesson=2-skip&at=2

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Use the first three questions on the printable sheet as a slip.

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Skip count by 5s, 10s, 100s (2nd grade)

  1. Count by 10s: 40, 50, ?, 70, 80
    40+1050+10?+1070+1080
  2. Count by 5s: 50, 55, ?, 65, 70
    50+555+5?+565+570
  3. Count by 5s: 5, 10, 15, 20, ?
    5+510+515+520+5?
  4. Count by 10s: 20, 30, 40, ?, 60
    20+1030+1040+10?+1060
  5. Count by 10s: 50, 60, 70, 80, ?
    50+1060+1070+1080+10?
  6. Count by 2s: 12, ?, 16, 18, 20
    12+2?+216+218+220
  7. Count by 2s: 2, ?, 6, 8, 10
    2+2?+26+28+210
  8. Count by 10s: 40, ?, 60, 70, 80
    40+10?+1060+1070+1080
  9. Count by 10s: 28, ?, 48, 58, 68
    28+10?+1048+1058+1068
  10. Count by 5s: 120, 125, 130, ?, 140
    120+5125+5130+5?+5140
  11. Count by 10s: 11, 21, ?, 41, 51
    11+1021+10?+1041+1051
  12. Count by 5s: 135, 140, ?, 150, 155
    135+5140+5?+5150+5155
Key
  1. 60
  2. 60
  3. 25
  4. 50
  5. 90
  6. 14
  7. 4
  8. 50
  9. 38
  10. 135
  11. 31
  12. 145

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