Skip Counting

Looking for a fun interactive teaching idea for skip counting by 2’s, 5’s, 10’s, and 100’s? Well look no further as Skip Counting Game Puzzles, for CCSS 2.NBT.2, will serve as an exciting lesson plan for 2nd grade elementary school classrooms. This is a great resource to incorporate into your unit as a guided math center rotation, review exercise, small group work, morning work, remediation, intervention or rti. It can also be used as a quiz, drill, test, or assessment tool to help determine student mastery of the learning target. Whether a student is in homeschool or given this as a homework assignment, kids will also love working on these at home to improve their skills.

This superhero themed puzzle set includes 32 colorful jigsaw puzzles, answer key, and an optional station instruction page with an example. These come as pdf printable sheets that can be printed on card stock and laminated for long-term use. As a suggestion, store them in a sealable gallon storage bag and place them in a tub or bin for students to use throughout the year for enrichment when they finish early. Another idea, for a project, is students can glue the completed puzzles into a notebook or journal as a reference sheet. They can also be glued on a poster for displaying on a bulletin board or as a wall anchor chart.

It covers determining whether a given sequence of numbers shows skip counting by 2, 5 and 10 or 100 and finding the next number in the sequence. By matching the puzzle pieces to solve the problems, students can gain confidence in an important and sometimes challenging skill. Your 2nd graders will love to practice and learn to develop strategies about skip counting with this product!

I hope you download and enjoy this engaging hands-on manipulative activity with your students! So set those worksheets aside and give our puzzles a try!

Relevant Grade 2 Common Core Standard 2.NBT.A.2
Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.
Cross Reference: Texas TEKS 1.5B and Virginia SOL 2.4A