Year 2 tasks

The tasks in this section are intended:

• for students in year 2 
• to complement similar class tasks
• to be a selection only of enjoyable learning opportunities for your child (and for you) 
• to generate useful explanations and discussions between you and your child.

The tasks in this section are NOT: 

• intended to be comprehensive in their coverage of all maths at year 2
• intended to be ‘one off’ tasks. Feel free to review or modify these to suit the needs of your child.

These Year 2 tasks recognise that students:

• are mostly working at level 1 of the NZ Curriculum, growing in their understanding of number, algebra, geometry, measurement and statistics
• are all different, and some find parts of maths easier or harder than others
• are learning to solve problems in different ways
• are learning that it’s okay to make a mistake and to have another go
• respond well to supportive questions from adults, such as, ‘What is the question asking you to do?’, or ‘What do you already know that might help you (solve the problem)?’
• enjoy exploring open tasks for which there can be a range of appropriate approaches and solutions
  (accordingly, set answers are not included for a number of these tasks).