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Year 2 mathematics at school: What to expect

Find out about the skills your Year 2 child will be developing. Learn how you can support and build on what they learn at school.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 1, Year 2
Audience	Parent or carer
Purpose	Home practice tasks, Parent guide to maths
Format	Downloadable resources
Keywords	maths at home, numeracy, number sense, understanding, reasoning, fluency
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Number, Space, Build understanding, Apply understanding
Topics	Place value, Addition and subtraction, Operating with number
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M1N03 Quantify sets of objects, to at least 120, by partitioning collections into equal groups using number knowledge and skip counting AC9M2N04 Add and subtract one- and two-digit numbers, representing problems using number sentences and solve using part-part-whole reasoning and a variety of calculation strategies
Numeracy progression	Additive strategies (P7) Counting processes (P6) Number and place value (P4, P5)
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Organisation	Commonwealth of Australia
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