DumDum Maths
Everything Year 2 learns, on one page.
All 228 skills, in the order a UK primary teaches them. Tap any one for its own page: what your child actually does, and the real question.
Place value to 100
Autumn term · 28 skills
Tens and ones, on base ten blocks and in a place value chart. By the end of this block a two-digit number is two things, not one.
- ✓ Count to 100
- ✓ Count back from 100
- ✓ Count in twos from 0
- ✓ Count in threes from 0
- ✓ Count in fives from 0
- ✓ Count in tens from any number
- ✓ Count back in twos
- ✓ Count back in tens
- ✓ How many tens? — to 100
- ✓ How many ones? — to 100
- ✓ What number is this? — to 100
- ✓ Build the number with tens and ones
- ✓ Put the digits in the place value chart
- ✓ What is the tens digit worth?
- ✓ Partition into tens and ones
- ✓ Put it back together
- ✓ One more — within 100
- ✓ One less — within 100
- ✓ Ten more — within 100
- ✓ Ten less — within 100
- ✓ Read the number word — to 20
- ✓ Read the number word — tens to 100
- ✓ Which is greater? — use the > sign
- ✓ Which is less? — use the < sign
- ✓ Choose the sign — < > or =
- ✓ Put three numbers in order — to 100
- ✓ Find the number on a number line — to 100
- ★ Estimate where the number goes — to 100
Addition and subtraction
Autumn term · 30 skills
The four two-digit cases the National Curriculum names, one at a time, with bridging through ten as the strategy underneath all of them.
- ✓ Number bonds to 10 — from memory
- ✓ Number bonds to 20 — from memory
- ✓ Add within 20 — no crossing
- ✓ Add within 20 — crossing ten
- ✓ Bridge through ten to add
- ✓ Take away within 20 — crossing ten
- ✓ Bridge through ten to take away
- ✓ Add a two-digit number and ones
- ✓ Add a two-digit number and ones — with exchange
- ✓ Add a two-digit number and tens
- ✓ Add two two-digit numbers
- ✓ Add two two-digit numbers — with exchange
- ✓ Add three one-digit numbers
- ✓ Take away ones from a two-digit number
- ✓ Take away ones — with exchange
- ✓ Take away tens from a two-digit number
- ✓ Take away a two-digit number
- ✓ Take away a two-digit number — with exchange
- ✓ Related facts to 100
- ✓ You can swap them round — adding
- ✓ You cannot swap them round — taking away
- ✓ Adding undoes taking away
- ✓ Check it with the inverse
- ✓ Find the missing number — adding
- ✓ Find the missing number — taking away
- ✓ How many more? — within 100
- ✓ Show it on a bar model — the whole
- ✓ Show it on a bar model — a part
- ✓ Compare with a bar model
- ✓ The four sentences in a fact family
Shape
Autumn term · 20 skills
Not just naming now: counting sides, edges, faces and vertices, finding a line of symmetry, and spotting a flat shape on the surface of a solid.
- ✓ Count the sides
- ✓ Count the corners
- ✓ Name a pentagon
- ✓ Name a hexagon
- ✓ Name a circle, triangle, square or rectangle
- ✓ Which shape has a line of symmetry?
- ✓ Where is the line of symmetry?
- ★ Finish the symmetrical picture
- ✓ Count the faces
- ✓ Count the edges
- ✓ Count the vertices
- ✓ Name a cube, cuboid, sphere or cylinder
- ✓ Name a cone or a pyramid
- ✓ Which flat shape is on this solid?
- ✓ Sort shapes by number of sides
- ✓ Sort flat shapes from solid shapes
- ✓ Find the shape that is different
- ✓ Carry on the shape pattern
- ★ Arrange the shapes in a sequence
- ★ Build the solid from the picture
Money
Spring term · 22 skills
Real coins, in real amounts. The hard idea is that the same amount can be made several ways, and that change is a subtraction you can see.
- ✓ Name the coin
- ✓ Which coin is worth more?
- ✓ Which coin is worth less?
- ✓ The pounds and pence signs
- ✓ How much altogether? — two coins
- ✓ How much altogether? — three coins
- ✓ How much altogether? — to £1
- ✓ How much altogether? — to £2
- ✓ Make 10p
- ✓ Make 20p
- ✓ Make 50p
- ✓ Make an amount under £1
- ★ Make an amount over £1
- ✓ Make the same amount a different way
- ✓ Which purse has more?
- ✓ Add two amounts of money
- ✓ Take away an amount of money
- ✓ Change from 10p
- ✓ Change from 20p
- ✓ Change from 50p
- ✓ Change from £1
- ★ Enough or not enough?
Multiplication and division
Spring term · 32 skills
The first times tables — and there are three of them: 2, 5 and 10. Everything is an array or a set of equal groups first, and a fact second.
- ✓ Count in twos
- ✓ Count in fives
- ✓ Count in tens
- ✓ Equal groups — how many altogether?
- ✓ Equal groups — how many groups?
- ✓ Add the same number again and again
- ✓ Make the array — rows of two
- ✓ Make the array — rows of five
- ✓ Make the array — rows of ten
- ✓ How many in the array?
- ✓ Two times table — the answer
- ✓ Five times table — the answer
- ✓ Ten times table — the answer
- ✓ Two times table — the missing number
- ✓ Five times table — the missing number
- ✓ Ten times table — the missing number
- ✓ You can swap them round — multiplying
- ✓ The multiplication sign
- ✓ Share equally between two
- ✓ Share equally between five
- ✓ Share equally between ten
- ✓ Group into twos
- ✓ Group into fives
- ✓ Group into tens
- ✓ Divide by two
- ✓ Divide by five
- ✓ Divide by ten
- ✓ The division sign
- ✓ Multiplying undoes dividing
- ✓ Odd or even — up to 20
- ✓ Double it — up to 20
- ✓ Halve it — up to 20
Length and height
Spring term · 12 skills
Standard units arrive: centimetres and metres, and knowing which one to reach for is half the skill.
- ✓ Which is longer?
- ✓ Which is taller?
- ✓ Put three in order by length
- ✓ Centimetres or metres?
- ✓ Read the ruler — centimetres
- ✓ Measure to the nearest centimetre
- ★ Estimate the length
- ✓ Compare two lengths with < > or =
- ★ Order three lengths
- ✓ Add two lengths
- ✓ How much longer?
- ✓ A metre is a hundred centimetres
Mass, capacity and temperature
Spring term · 16 skills
Grams and kilograms, millilitres and litres, degrees Celsius. Three scales to read, all of them with numbers between the marks.
- ✓ Which is heavier?
- ✓ Which way does the balance tip?
- ✓ Grams or kilograms?
- ✓ Read the scale — grams
- ✓ Read the scale — kilograms
- ✓ Compare two masses with < > or =
- ✓ Add two masses
- ✓ Which holds more?
- ✓ Millilitres or litres?
- ✓ Read the jug — millilitres
- ✓ Read the jug — litres
- ✓ Compare two amounts with < > or =
- ★ How much more would fill it?
- ✓ Read the thermometer
- ✓ Warmer or colder?
- ★ A litre is a thousand millilitres
Fractions
Summer term · 22 skills
Halves, thirds and quarters — of a shape, a length, a set and a number. Thirds are new, and so is writing a fraction down.
- ✓ Equal parts or not?
- ✓ Which shape shows a half?
- ✓ Which shape shows a quarter?
- ✓ Which shape shows a third?
- ✓ Which shape shows three quarters?
- ✓ Which shape shows two quarters?
- ✓ Name the fraction shaded
- ✓ Write the fraction — a half
- ✓ Write the fraction — a third
- ✓ Write the fraction — a quarter
- ✓ Half of a set
- ✓ Third of a set
- ✓ Quarter of a set
- ✓ Three quarters of a set
- ✓ Half of a number — write it down
- ✓ Quarter of a number — write it down
- ✓ Half of a length
- ✓ Quarter of a length
- ✓ Two quarters is the same as a half
- ★ Count in halves
- ★ Count in quarters
- ★ Which fraction is bigger?
Time
Summer term · 20 skills
Quarter past, quarter to, then every five minutes. Quarter to is the hard one, because the hour hand has already moved on.
- ✓ Read the clock — o'clock
- ✓ Read the clock — half past
- ✓ Read the clock — quarter past
- ✓ Read the clock — quarter to
- ✓ Read the clock — five minutes past
- ✓ Read the clock — minutes to the hour
- ✓ Read any time to five minutes
- ✓ Show the time — o'clock
- ✓ Show the time — half past
- ✓ Show the time — quarter past
- ✓ Show the time — quarter to
- ★ Show any time to five minutes
- ✓ Match the time to the clock
- ✓ Sixty minutes in an hour
- ✓ Twenty-four hours in a day
- ✓ Which takes longer?
- ✓ Put the times in order
- ★ What time will it be in an hour?
- ★ What time was it half an hour ago?
- ✓ Days, weeks and months
Statistics
Summer term · 14 skills
New this year: reading and making tally charts, pictograms, block diagrams and tables — and answering a question with them.
- ✓ Read a tally
- ✓ Make a tally
- ✓ Which had the most? — tally chart
- ✓ Read a pictogram — one for one
- ✓ Read a pictogram — one for two
- ★ Read a pictogram — one for five
- ✓ Which had the most? — pictogram
- ✓ Which had the fewest? — pictogram
- ✓ Read a block diagram
- ✓ How many altogether? — from a chart
- ✓ How many more? — from a chart
- ✓ Read a table
- ★ Sort the categories by how many
- ✓ Answer the question with the chart
Position and direction
Summer term · 12 skills
Turns become right angles, and get a direction: clockwise or anti-clockwise.
- ✓ Left, right, forwards, backwards
- ✓ Above, below, beside
- ✓ A quarter turn is a right angle
- ✓ A half turn
- ✓ A three-quarter turn
- ✓ Clockwise or anti-clockwise?
- ✓ Turn it clockwise
- ✓ Turn it anti-clockwise
- ✓ How many right angles?
- ★ Describe the movement
- ✓ Arrange the shapes in a pattern
- ★ Carry on the sequence