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Number Pieces - Virtual Base Ten Blocks (Digital)

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Number Pieces - Virtual Base Ten Blocks (Digital)

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Use: Students can use the digital tool to explore place value, addition, subtraction, and regrouping using digital base-ten blocks. Teachers can use it to model concepts during whole-group instruction and assign self-paced activities for individual or small-group work.

Impact: This digital tool offers visuals, hands-on practice for students who need concrete representations. It also enables advanced learners to experiment with regrouping, multi-digit addition/subtraction, or explore patterns. Lastly, students can work independently at their own pace, making it ideal for math centers, intervention, or enrichment.

How Number Pieces Extend Learning and Mastery:

1. Builds deep conceptual understanding of place value.

2. Supports addition and subtraction with regrouping.

3. Enhances differentiation and student autonomy.

4. Reinforces math vocabulary and reasoning.

5. Provides scaffold for problem solving.

6. Integrates easily with journaling and digital tools.

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Number Pieces by The Math Learning Center

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Number Pieces helps students develop a deeper understanding of place value while building their computation skills with multi-digit numbers. Students use the pieces to represent multi-digit numbers, regroup, add, subtract, multiply, and divide.

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Math Learning Centers with Tiered Tasks (Non-Digital)

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Math Learning Centers with Tiered Tasks (Non-Digital)

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Use: Teachers create tiered math stations that reinforce key concepts like place value, time, or addition strategies. Each station offers hands-on manipulatives and varied levels of complexity to meet diverse needs.

Impact: These math centers with tiered tasks support small group differentiation and student choice while reinforcing foundational math skills at multiple levels.

How Math Centers with Tiered Tasks Extend Learning:

1. Targeted practice at each student's level.

2. Encourages hands-on and visual learning.

3. Increases student engagement and ownership.

4. Provides opportunities for repetition and fluency.

5. Supports peer collaboration.

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Use: Students engage in fantasy-based gameplay while solving math problems aligned with standards. Teachers can assign specific skills from the second grade math curriculum to target classroom learning objectives. Prodigy will automatically adjust difficulty based on student performance, ensuring that each learner receives the right level of challenge and support. Struggling students get remediation, while advanced students are given more complex problems.

Impact: The digital tool provides a fun, adaptive platform for students ready to explore above-grade-level content or extend their practice in a personalized, gamified environment.

How Prodigy Extends Learning and Mastery:

1. Personalized skill practice.

2. Aligned with curriculum standards.

3. Engaging and motivating format.

4. Can be accessible anywhere and anytime.

5. Immediate feedback & reteaching.

6. Teacher insights & differentiation.

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Use: Seesaw allows teachers to assign math tasks at varied levels based on student needs. Students can respond using voice recordings, drawings, or manipulatives via drag-and-drop features. Teachers can scaffold or enrich within the same assignment.

Impact: Students practice key math concepts at their readiness level and demonstrate understanding in multimodal ways, increasing access and engagement.

How Seesaw Extends Learning and Mastery:

1. Encourages student reflection and math talk.

2. Promotes independent and differentiated practice.

3. Makes learning visible for teachers and families.

4. Supports formative assessment and immediate feedback.

5. Encourages creativity and ownership.

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Seesaw | Elementary Learning Experience Platform

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Elementary Learning Experience Platform | Seesaw

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Seesaw is a Learning Experience Platform with 25M+ users, enhancing elementary education, engagement, and school culture while improving academic success.

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Use: This project invites second grade students to explore how math is used in everyday community life - by shopkeepers, chef, builders, postal workers, librarians, and more. Through hands-on activities and real-world scenarios, students apply second grade math concepts (place value, addition/subtraction, time & money, measurement & data, and geometry) in meaningful ways. This enrichment project will help extend learning beyond the classroom, strengthen problem-solving, critical thinking, and math fluency. It will also help students see math as a useful real-world tool. Lastly, it supports cross-curricular connections with reading, writing, and social studies.

Project Activities:

1. Create a Store

2. Plan a Community Garden

3. Neighborhood Budgeting

4. Community Helper Interviews

5. Map your Community

How "Math in Our Community" Extends Learning and Mastery:

1. Applies math in real-world contexts.

2. Encourages critical thinking and problem solving.

3. Integrates math across all content areas.

4. Promotes ownership and deeper engagement.

5. Supports differentiation and collaboration.

6. Develops communication and reasoning.

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Use: Students work in pairs or small groups to solve weekly math problems and justify their reasoning on shared digital platforms. Students will record their math thinking, strategies, and reflections on learning.

How It Extends Daily or Weekly Reflection and Practice:

1. Students complete journal prompts aligned with the math lesson of the day (e.g., "Explain how you solved this subtraction problem using base-ten blocks.").

2. Encourages students to represent math visually and in their own words, deepening conceptual understanding.

3. In partner or group settings, students can comment on one another's slides, explain alternate strategies, or co-create solutions.

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Use: Students choose from a board of activities. The board can be paper-based and filed in a sheet protector for students to easily access. Here is an example of a second grade math choice board that targets the math standards (Courtesy of TPT). There are also opportunities for cross-curricular integration.

Impact: Math choice boards encourages students autonomy and ownership while reinforcing skills through creative expression and peer engagement.

How Choice Boards Extend Learning & Mastery:

1. Reinforces core math skills in creative ways.

2. Supports differentiation and student choice.

3. Promotes independence and engagement.

4. Incorporates multiple learning modalities.

5. Encourages deeper thinking and real-world application.

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Use: Students read multicultural picture books with math themes, followed by related math tasks.

Impact: Math stories from around the world extend learning and mastery by integrating cultural perspectives, real-world connections, and meaningful context into math instruction. These stories expose students to how math is used across diverse cultures, while also reinforcing core mathematical concepts in engaging and memorable ways.

Example: One Grain of Rice by Demi.

This book targets:

1. Doubling and exponential growth.

2. Place value and large numbers.

3. Multiplication and patterns.

4. Moral reasoning and cultural awareness.

For second grade, teachers can focus on place value, large numbers, multiplication, and patterns, moral reasoning and cultural awareness.

For struggling students, teachers can assign math tasks that fit their readiness (place value), while advanced learners can complete tasks on multiplication, patterns, and place value with large numbers.

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Family Read Aloud/KIDS - One Grain of Rice by Demi/Exponential Growth/MATH

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BrainPOP Jr. - Math + Social Studies Connection

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BrainPOP Jr. - Math + Social Studies Connection

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Use: Teachers can use BrainPOP Jr. videos and quizzes to connect math skills with topics like global citizenship, money, and data about communities.

Impact: The digital tool integrates cultural learning with math practice, helping students see how math applies to diverse cultures and contexts.

How BrainPOP Jr. Math + Social Studies Connections Extend Learning and Mastery:

1. Promotes real-world application of math concepts.

2. Strengthens cross-curriculuar connections.

3. Engages all learners through multimedia.

4. Encourages critical thinking and inquiry.

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Use: Epic! provides thousands of digital books, videos, and audiobooks across subjects including science, history, social-emotional learning, and math. Teachers can curate cross-curricular collections - for example, pairing a science unit on habitats with related nonfiction texts and animal math stories. Epic! helps students make meaningful connections between reading and content-area knowledge.

How Epic! Extends Learning and Mastery:

1. Builds background knowledge across subjects.

2. Supports independent and self-directed learning.

3. Reinforces core literacy skills.

4. Encourages cross-curricular connections.

5. Includes audio & read-to-me features to support learners who need scaffolding.

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STEAM Integration: "Build a Playground" Project

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STEAM Integration: "Build a Playground" Project

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Use: Students plan and design a model playground for their school or community using specific math skils from measurement, geometry, addition/subtraction, spatial reasoning, and money, while promoting creativity and teamwork.

Math Skills Reinforced:

1. Mesurement: Students measure and record dimensions.

2. Geometry: Identify and use 2D and 3D shapes.

3. Addition/Subtraction: Figure out the total cost using multi-step word problems.

4. Money: Work with a budget to "purchase" equipment and materials.

How It Extends Learning and Mastery:

1. Real-world application.

2. Student choice and voice.

3. Collaboration and communication.

4. Critical thinking and design.

5. Cross-curricular connections (STEM, Art, Social Studies).

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Use: Teachers can use daily digital check-ins or "mood meters" to help students identify emotions before or during math activities, especially when tackling challenging tasks.

Impact: This resource supports emotional regulation and classroom climate, helping students stay focused and resilient during math learning.

How Visual Check-Ins Extend Learning and Mastery:

1. Promotes megacognition and self-awareness.

2. Encourages goal-setting and accountability.

3. Supports differentiation.

4. Strengtens social-emotional learning.

5. Fosters a safe, supportive classroom climate.

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Use: Teachers can select and teach weeky lessons on empathy, perserverance, and managing frustration. These lessons can explicity be taught and integrated into math problem-solving conversations.

Impact: This resource reinfroces a growth mindset, encourages peer support, and promotes respectful collaboration during math tasks.

How Second Step SEL Program Extends Learning and Mastery:

1. Enhances focus and learning readiness.

2. Promotes collaboration and productive group work.

3. Supports goal-setting and perseverance.

4. Reduces disruptions and increases engagement.

5. Fosters a safe and inclusive learning environment.

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Social-Emotional Learning Programs | Second Step

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Discover Second Step, an evidence-based social-emotional learning curriculum that fosters students’ emotional intelligence, empathy, and problem-solving skills.