Year 2 Maths Expectations

By the end of Year 2, your child should:

• Read scales* in divisions of ones, twos, fives and tens
• Partition any two-digit number into different combinations of tens and ones, explaining their thinking verbally, in pictures or using apparatus
• Add and subtract any 2 two-digit numbers using an efficient strategy, explaining their method verbally, in pictures or using apparatus (e.g. 48 + 35; 72 – 17)
• Recall all number bonds to and within 10 and use these to reason with and calculate bonds to and within 20, recognising other associated additive relationships (e.g. If 7 + 3 = 10, then 17 + 3 = 20; if 7 – 3 = 4, then 17 – 3 = 14; leading to if 14 + 3 = 17, then 3 + 14 = 17, 17 – 14 = 3 and 17 – 3 = 14)
• Recall multiplication and division facts for 2, 5 and 10 and use them to solve simple problems, demonstrating an understanding of commutativity as necessary
• Identify 1 4 , 1 3 , 1 2 , 2 4 , 3 4 , of a number or shape, and know that all parts must be equal parts of the whole
• Use different coins to make the same amount
• Read the time on a clock to the nearest 15 minutes
• Name and describe properties of 2-D and 3-D shapes, including number of sides, vertices, edges, faces and lines of symmetry