2nd Grade 2016-2017 Manipulatives Resource Guide - First 9 Weeks

SOL: / Math Vocabulary: / Suggested Manipulative: / Strategy Using Manipulative:
Strand: Computation and Estimation
Focus: Addition/Subtraction to 20
SOL 2.5-The student will recall addition facts with sums to 20 or less and the corresponding subtraction facts. / Addition, adding, sum, subtraction, subtraction, minus, difference, number sentence, related fact, equal to /
  • Base ten blocks
  • Digit cards 0-9
  • Counters
  • Cubes
  • Linking cubes
  • Ten Frames

/ VDOE Lesson Plan: Four-in-a-Row Game

Modeling Numbers
Use any objects to build the numbers to model addition and subtraction facts.
Model with Base Ten Blocks
Use base ten blocks to model. Have students practice trading ten ones cubes for one tens stick and vice versa.
SOL: / Math Vocabulary: / Suggested Manipulative: / Strategy Using Manipulative:
Strand: Computation and Estimation
Focus: Inverse Relationship
SOL 2.9-The student will recognize and describe the related facts that represent and describe the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction / adding, addition, sum, fact family, subtraction, subtracting, difference, inverse operation, related facts /
  • Linking cubes in different colors
/ VDOE Lesson Plan: Related Facts

Modeling with Students
Call groups of students to the front. Make related fact sentences using the students. (Call three boys and two girls. 3 +2 = 5, 2 + 3 = 5, 5 – 3 = 2,5-2 =3 or four students with sweatshirts and one with a t-shirt etc..)
SOL: / Math Vocabulary: / Suggested Manipulative: / Strategy Using Manipulative:
Strand: Patterns, Functions, and Algebra
Focus: Numerical Sentences
SOL 2.21-The student will solve problems by completing numerical sentences involving the basic facts for addition and subtraction. The student will create story problems, using the numerical sentences. / addition, addend, subtraction, subtrahend, pattern, function, equal, add, subtract /
  • Tiles
  • Linking cubes
  • Base ten blocks
/ VDOE Lesson Plan: The FUNction Machine

Modeling Numbers
Use any objects to build the numbers to model addition and subtraction facts. Have students practice modeling number sentences with information found in word problems and create their own word problems.
Model with Base Ten Blocks
Use base ten blocks to model. Have students practice trading ten ones cubes for one tens stick and vice versa.
SOL: / Math Vocabulary: / Suggested Manipulative: / Strategy Using Manipulative:
Strand: Number and Number Sense
Focus: Counting
SOL 2.4-The student will
a) count forward by twos, fives, and tens to 100, starting at various multiples 2,5, or 10;
b)count backwards by tens from 100; and
c)recognize even and odd numbers / Digit, sequence, skip count, two, five, ten, even, odd /
  • Transparent counters

  • Base ten clocks
  • Cubes
  • Five and Ten Frames


  • Hundreds chart

  • Number lines

  • Sequence Cards
/ VDOE Lesson Plan: Guess My Number

Base Ten Blocks
When skip counting forward and backwards by ten have students practice by moving a tens stick each time they say a ten.
Modeling Numbers to Determine Even or Odd
Use any objects to build the number to determine if the number is even or odd. Have students group the objects in pairs of two.
SOL: / Math Vocabulary: / Suggested Manipulative: / Strategy Using Manipulative:
Strand: Patterns, Functions, and Algebra
Focus: Ordinal Numbers
SOL2.2 The student will: a) identify the ordinal positions first through twentieth, using an ordered set of objects; and
b) write the ordinal numbers. / ordinal number, ordinal position terms first through twentieth, horizontal, vertical /
  • Sticky notes
  • Colored cubes
  • Small objects
/ VDOE Lesson Plan: Ordinals

SOL: / Math Vocabulary: / Suggested Manipulative: / Strategy Using Manipulative:
Strand: Number and Number Sense
Focus: Place Value, Rounding, and Comparing
SOL2.1 The student will
a) read, write, and identify the place
value of each digit in a three-digit
numeral, using numeration models;
b) round two-digit numbers to the
nearest ten; and
c) compare two whole numbers
between 0 and 999, using symbols
(>, <, or =) and words (greater than,
Less than, or equal to). / add, addition, column, digit, ones, place value, rows, sum, tens, hundreds, manipulative, round, compare, greater than, less than, equal to /
  • single beans and cups of 10 beans each
  • single popsicle sticks and bundles of 10 popsicle sticks

  • base ten blocks
  • pennies and dimes

  • connecting cubes
  • single paper clips and chains of 10 paper clips
  • linking cubes
  • Number (or dot) cubes

  • Place value mat(attached)
/ VDOE Lesson Plan: Race to 100

VDOE Lesson Plan: Race to 100

VDOE Lesson Plan: Three Digit Place Value

SOL: / Math Vocabulary: / Suggested Manipulative: / Strategy Using Manipulative:
Strand: Patterns, Functions, and Algebra
Focus: Equality
SOL 2.22-The student will demonstrate an understanding of equality by recognizing that the symbol = in an equation indicates equivalent quantities and the symbol ≠ indicates that quantities are not equivalent / equal, equality, equation, equivalent, inequality, nonequivalent /
  • Balance scales
  • Two different colored linking cubes
  • Base Ten Blocks
/ VDOE Lesson Plan: Three Digit Place Value