2.NBT.B.7 - About the Math, Learning Targets, and Increasing Rigor

Grade 2 Number Concepts

2.NBT.B.7

Full Standard

Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method. Understand that in adding or subtracting three- digit numbers, one adds or subtracts hundreds and hundreds, tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose or decompose tens or hundreds.

 

Measurement Topic

This standard is reported on the report card in these quarters as follows:

2nd Grade Students Learning 2nd Grade Standards
Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4

 

 

Report Card Measurement Topic: Demonstrates understanding of addition

 

Report Card Measurement Topic: Demonstrates understanding of subtraction

Report Card Measurement Topic: Demonstrates understanding of addition

 

Report Card Measurement Topic: Demonstrates understanding of subtraction

1st Grade Students Learning 2nd Grade Standards
Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4

 

 

Report Card Measurement Topic: Demonstrates understanding of addition

 

Report Card Measurement Topic: Demonstrates understanding of subtraction

Report Card Measurement Topic: Demonstrates understanding of addition

 

Report Card Measurement Topic: Demonstrates understanding of subtraction

 

About the Math

Skills and concepts below are learning goals for this standard.

  • Explain addition and subtraction within 1,000 using physical tools, drawings and number lines. 

Students can use a myriad of tools to represent addition and subtraction. Base ten blocks are one tool for students to use. Place value chips are another. Students should also have ample opportunities to work with number lines to represent their thinking and computation. Work with phsyical models should be connected to number lines and equations. Computation should be supported with representations, especially number lines.

  • Count on to find the sum.

Teaching of the counting on strategy begins in Kindergarten with one-digit addends. Counting on extends to larger numbers by breaking apart one addend and adding it to the other addend in chunks.  Given 124+245, a student might start with 245+120 to get 365 and then add 365+4=369. A student might break apart 245=200+40+5 and start with 124+200=324, 324+40=364, 364+5=369. 

  • Count back to subtract.

 We can count back to find the difference. One can count back starting with the minuend and counting back the amount of the subtrahend. On the number line, we see 536 - 357 where 357 has been decomposed and counted back from 536. One could also find the difference between 536 and 357 on the number line if desired. 

  • Use partial sums to add.

We can decompose addends and add the parts. Those partial sums can then be added to find the final sum.

The partial sums algorithm for adding 3-digit numbers breaks the addition problem into a series of easier problems based on place value. Answers to the simpler problems are added together to determine the final sum.

When adding 378 + 254 we can decompose each addend and add place values. For example,

   300     +    70     +   8
+ 200     +    50     +   4
   500    +   120   + 12 = 632

Then partial sums are added together. 500 + 120 + 12 = 632

Students can represent partial sums with physical tools and number lines. As students develop understanding, their focus should be shifted to decomposing one of the addends as it is usually more efficient.

  • Use think addition to find the difference.

Another option is to count up from the subtrahend. Here to find the difference of 536 - 179. One started with 179 and counted up to 536. The size of the jumps between these numbers can vary. Here, a jump of 21 was followed by 300, and then 36. Adding 

those jumps together identifies the difference as 357.

 

 

 

  • Use compensation/adjusting to add or subtract more efficiently.

Numbers can be adjusted to compute more efficiently, This can be helpful in many situations. Consider 289 + 457. It can be thought of as 300 + 446 instead. The sums are the same. The latter is a more efficient computation because students can count on by 300. When adjusting addition expressions, an amount is given from one addend to the other. Adjusting subtraction functions differently. It is built on the notion of constant or same difference. Simply, 5 - 4 is the same as 4 - 3. Both are adjusted by 1. It can be used to solve something like 702 - 329. Instead, we can think of 699 - 326 finding a friendlier computation that requires no regrouping. When adjusting subtraction problems, BOTH numbers are adjusted in the same way.  

 

Addition: When the parts of a set are known, addition is used to name the whole in terms of its parts.

Subtraction: In a part-part whole model when the whole is known and one of the parts, subtraction names the other part. This is called the "take away" model. Subtraction can also find the difference between two whole values. To find the difference, you can count up from the smaller or down from the larger value, whichever is easier or makes sense. We sometimes overlook subtraction as the difference between two whole values and focus on the take away model.

Both situations need to be part of instruction.

Essential vocabulary for this standard includes: place value, commutative property, associative property, identity property, compose, and decompose .  Visit the online dictionary Links to an external site. for vocabulary support.

 

 

Progression of Standard within Grade 2

This progression informs how to develop the standard within the grade level. This progression is provided by HCPSS Elementary Mathematics.

Progression Throughout Year
Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4
  • Explain addition and subtraction within 1,000 using physical tools, drawings and number lines. 
  • Count on to find the sum. 
  • Count back to subtract.
  • Use partial sums to add.
  • Use think addition to find the difference.
  • Use compensation/adjusting to add or subtract more efficiently.
  • Explain addition and subtraction within 1,000 using physical tools, drawings and number lines. 
  • Count on to find the sum. 
  • Count back to subtract.
  • Use partial sums to add.
  • Use think addition to find the difference.
  • Use compensation/adjusting to add or subtract more efficiently.

 

 

Progression of this Standard Across Grades

This progression is informed by the Achieve the Core Coherence Map Links to an external site.. Information is not the complete standard.

Progression Across Grades
Grade 1 Grade 3
  • Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones (1.NBT.2)
  • Add/subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction (3.NBT.2)

 

 

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