Second grade is an exciting time for young learners as they dive deeper into the world of numbers. One effective strategy they use to enhance their mental addition and subtraction skills is skip counting by 5s, 10s and 100s.
Skip counting offers several benefits for second graders. It improves number sense, enhances mental math skills, builds confidence, and supports future learning, laying the groundwork for multiplication, division, and other advanced math concepts. Ms. Marton's mathematicians are practicing skip counting by using an open number line and a hundreds chart.
You can practice skip counting at home! You can skip count when cleaning up your toys, counting cookies, telling time or using money.
