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2nd grade math · Unit 7: Place value to 1,000

Adding to 1,000

What this lesson shows

581 + 72: 8 tens and 7 tens make 15 tens. Trade 10 tens for a hundred: 653.

The worked example

The lesson works this one step by step: 581 + 72. Then your kid tries one like it on paper.

The steps

  1. Add the ones
  2. Add the tens
  3. Trade 10 tens for a hundred
  4. Put the parts together

Helping at home

Add the ones, then the tens, then the hundreds. When the tens make 10 or more, trade 10 tens for a hundred. Put the parts together.

If your kid gets stuck

Ones, then tens, then hundreds.

Watch it with Lux

With Lux, this lesson is a narrated video and a printed page your kid works on. Then Lux helps with the same math on their own worksheet, one question at a time.

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Standards

  • Common Core 2.NBT.B.7
    Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method. Understand that in adding or subtracting three-digit numbers, one adds or subtracts hundreds and hundreds, tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose or decompose tens or hundreds.
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