Ep 44: 2nd Grade Tasks for Building a Thinking Classroom!

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Today is the day to dive into second grade math tasks and in this show notes

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You can find a link to one that you can try absolutely free

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Hello and welcome to making number sense make sense a podcast for elementary teachers specifically early elementary teachers

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Looking to really make an impact in the number sense of their students

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We talked about kindergarten talked about first grade and today is the day for second grade and

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a huge part of the bundle that I worked on is

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Different problem types that your students can use that they will see over and over again in the math

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Curriculums that they're using including one step and two step story of problems

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but today I'm gonna dive into the ones that aren't necessarily as

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Cut and dry that have a little more spice to them with a story

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So the first one is skip counting by five tens and hundreds

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So in this task your students are in an orange factory and this orange factory

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Offers gift baskets that come with five oranges per basket ten oranges per basket or a hundred oranges per basket

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So your students have to help the orange factory the orange is sweet orange factory

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Fill all of their orders so they have to figure out how many oranges they need for each order by skip counting by five

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tens or hundreds

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it's got fin slicing already built in with the different orders that they try and

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The check your understanding falls right along with it. The next task

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I'm gonna share is all about reading and writing numbers to a thousand

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so the story here is that there is an alien planet called Cantaria and

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They are trying to prep for the out-of-this-world

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Alien block party, but there is some translation issues between all of the different

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Aliens the aliens speak all different languages and they can't communicate with each other to plan this party

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So the different aliens are the standard tracks aliens who write all their numbers in standard form or write all their communications

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In standard form the base, Pennsylvania aliens that write theirs in base 10 the numeria aliens that write their

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messages in word form and the

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Expandatron aliens that write all of their communication in expanded form

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So your groups will have a record of communication that has some gaps in it

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So they need to figure out which form they're working on and then

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Complete the different numbers in all of the forms to save the day and make sure that all the aliens attend the out-of-this-world

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Block party to celebrate their planet

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The next task is an addition and subtraction

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Word problem task involving length

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so in this one your students have come across a

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Treasure map and this treasure map has different distances between 0 and 100 to different

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Landmarks in the area where the treasure is so your students have to figure out the distance of each path and

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Decide which path is the one that they want to take to be able to get to the treasure in the shortest amount of time

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The way that they're going to figure it out is they're going to use the clues

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Given which is their thin slicing the different clues telling them which landmarks they need to hit in

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Order to reach the treasure and the check your understanding piece is if they want to make a detour

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So they know where the treasure chest is

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But they might have the opportunity to get some pearls or gems or something else that might make it worth their while to make a detour

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On their way to find the treasure this next task is about partitioning

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Rectangles into rows so there is a brownie bakery that takes very special orders

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And in these orders the clients decide how many rows and columns they want in each of their brownie pans

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And that will help your students figure out what the total number of brownies should be so to start with they're going to partition

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Into rows and columns and count how many the total is and the thin slicing is if they finish all of the orders

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Now they only know the total I need to figure out how they can partition their brownie pan to work

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And so they have little brownies they can work on they also have a big one that you can put into a dry erase sleeve

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So they can practice and see what will work best for the orders that they are working on if you heard the first grade

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Task this might sound familiar. This is the return of the

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Cube queen and the popsicle stick King so they are again trying to remodel a room in their castle

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But they're having a disagreement about what's the best way to measure by cubes or by popsicle sticks?

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So in this task your students will have to measure each item twice with the cubes and with the popsicle sticks and figure out

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When it's better to use a popsicle stick versus a cube and this the consolidation piece will again be a note-taking

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Where they can really think on the what they have just done and when it would be best to use different

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Measuring tools to get the best results the last task. I'm going to share with you today is

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The ice cream shop arrays task

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So in this one the your students have a dream of opening their own ice cream shop called the world of swirls

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But they know that they need to start a little smaller and build up to that goal

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So they start with an ice cream cart and they're gonna complete orders given to them by their clients

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so in this one they can only take up to three orders at a time so three cones at a time and

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The ticket or the receipt will let your students know how many scoops each cone needs and they'll find the total

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Once they finish that that's their first their original task the thin slices they get to move up

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So they already they are rocking it with the ice cream stand. They want to move up to an ice cream truck

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So in the ice cream truck they can fill up to four cone orders at a time with varying amounts of scoops

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Find the total and then finally they will make it to their own ice cream shop that can make up to

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five cones at a time with up to five scoops per cone and

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Calculate the total of how much ice cream each order will use

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Working in second grade and coming up with tasks for second grade was a lot of fun

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Because I feel like they've got the foundations from kindergarten. They got the foundations from first grade now

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You can really dive into the stories and making it come to life making the math come to life for them in

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Context in a way that will get them excited to keep going and excited to get to the next step

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Whatever that step maybe

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Please let me know if you have any questions about these tasks

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If you want to see them in action get a closer look you can check the blog post that is in the show notes

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There is a free two-step

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Subtraction task that you can get again in the show notes below and you can reach out to me on Instagram and let me know

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How it went?