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Math ยท Grade 2 Math ยท Unit 6

Unit 6: Geometry, Time, and Money

Students reason with shapes and their attributes, and partition shapes into equal shares, building a foundation for fractions. They relate halves, fourths, and skip-counting by 5 to tell time, and they solve story problems involving the values of coins and dollars.

Worksheets

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What this unit covers

A Attributes of Shapes ยท 5 lessons
Goals
  • Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
  • Recognize and draw shapes having specific attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces.
Lessons
  1. Identify and Sort Shapes
  2. Draw Shapes
  3. Specific Side Lengths
  4. Solid Shapes
  5. Center Day 1 (Optional)
B Halves, Thirds, and Fourths ยท 5 lessons
Goals
  • Partition rectangles and circles into halves, thirds, and fourths and name the pieces.
  • Recognize two halves, three thirds, and four fourths as one whole.
  • Understand that equal pieces do not need to be the same shape.
Lessons
  1. Compose and Decompose Shapes
  2. Make Halves, Thirds, and Fourths
  3. Are All Pieces Created Equal?
  4. You Took the Whole Thing!
  5. Center Day 2 (Optional)
C Time on the Clock ยท 4 lessons
Goals
  • Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m.
Lessons
  1. Tell Time with Halves and Quarters
  2. Count by 5 to Tell Time
  3. Is It a.m. or p.m.?
  4. Center Day 3 (Optional)
D The Value of Money ยท 8 lessons
Goals
  • Find the value of a group of bills and coins.
  • Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems.
Lessons
  1. Identify Pennies, Nickels, and Dimes
  2. Identify Quarters
  3. Let's Make a Dollar
  4. Money Problems
  5. More Money Problems
  6. Does My Answer Make Sense?
  7. Center Day 4 (Optional)
  8. Spending Money (Optional)

Helpful to know first

The curriculum says this unit builds on these.

Grade 2 Math ยท Unit 2 Adding and Subtracting within 100
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Adapted from the Illustrative Mathematics curriculum (v.360), licensed CC BY-NC 4.0. ยฉ Illustrative Mathematics.