Primary 2 Mathematics

P2 keeps the shape of P1 and raises the ceiling. Numbers reach 1000, the multiplication tables become something your child needs to know rather than work out, and fractions appear for the first time. If P1 felt manageable and P2 suddenly does not, the tables are usually where to look first.

Numbers

Whole Numbers

  • Age problems
  • Comparing and ordering numbers
  • Counting in tens and hundreds (numbers up to 1000)
  • Dividing by 10, 100, 1000 and their multiples
  • Factors and multiples
  • Gap problems
  • Multiplying by 10, 100, 1000 and their multiples
  • Number notation, representations and place values (hundreds, tens, ones)
  • Odd and even numbers
  • Order of operations
  • Ordinal numbers (first, second, up to tenth)
  • Patterns in number sequences
  • Place value
  • Reading and writing numbers in numerals and in words
  • Rounding and estimation
  • Word problems involving whole numbers

Addition and Subtraction

  • Addition and subtraction of up to 3 digits
  • Mental calculation involving addition and subtraction of a 3-digit number and ones, tens or hundreds
  • Solving up to 2-step word problems involving addition and subtraction

Multiplication and Division

  • Multiplication tables of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10
  • Use of ÷
  • Relationship between multiplication and division
  • Multiplying and dividing within the multiplication tables
  • Mental calculation involving multiplication and division within the multiplication tables of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10
  • Solving 1-step word problems involving multiplication and division within the multiplication tables

Fractions

  • Understand parts and whole
  • Fractions as a part of a whole
  • Notation and representations of fractions
  • Shading figures to represent a given fraction
  • Writing fractions of shaded and unshaded parts of a figure
  • Comparing fractions
  • Comparing and ordering fractions with denominators of given fractions not exceeding 12 (unit and like fractions)
  • Finding the middle fractions of 2 fractions
  • Adding and subtracting like fractions within 1 whole with denominators of given fractions not exceeding 12
  • Addition and subtraction of mixed numbers

Money

  • Counting amount of money in dollars and cents
  • Reading and writing money in decimal notation
  • Converting an amount of money in decimal notation to cents only, and vice versa
  • Comparing two or three amounts of money
  • Addition of money
  • Subtraction of money

Measurement and Geometry

Length, Mass and Volume

  • Measuring length in metres and centimetres
  • Measuring mass in kilograms and grams
  • Measuring volume of liquid in litres
  • Measuring and drawing a line segment to the nearest cm
  • Using appropriate units of measurement and their abbreviations (cm, m, g, kg)
  • Comparing and ordering lengths, masses and volumes
  • Adding lengths
  • Subtracting lengths
  • Multiplication of lengths
  • Adding mass
  • Subtracting mass
  • Multiplication of mass

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