NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Grade 2

Second grade is a year of education in the United States and other countries two years after kindergarten, (usually 7-8 years old and a part of elementary school.)

In the United States, in mathematics, students are taught place value to hundreds or thousands, and renaming with addition and subtraction. Measurement is extended to the meter, foot, yard, kilogram, pound, and pint. Sometimes a little multiplication is introduced towards the end.

Preceded by
First grade

Followed by
Third grade

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Grade Two - Content Standards (CA Dept of Education) (859 words)
	Grade Two - Content Standards (CA Dept of Education)
	By the end of grade two, students understand place value and number relationships in addition and subtraction, and they use simple concepts of multiplication.
	They classify shapes and see relationships among them by paying attention to their geometric attributes.

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