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A. Values and Attitudes
By the end of 2nd grade, students should know that:
- Raise questions about the world around them and be willing to seek answers to some of them by making careful observations and trying things out.
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B. Computation and Estimation
By the end of 2nd grade, students should know that:
- Use whole numbers and simple, everyday fractions in ordering, counting, identifying, measuring, and describing things and experiences.
- Readily give the sums and differences of single-digit numbers in familiar contexts where the operation makes sense to them and they can judge the reasonableness of the answer.
- Give rough estimates of numerical answers to problems before doing them formally.
- Explain to other students how they go about solving numerical problems.
- Make quantitative estimates of familiar lengths, weights, and time intervals and check them by measurements.
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C. Manipulation and Observation
By the end of 2nd grade, students should know that:
- Use hammers, screwdrivers, clamps, rulers, scissors, and hand lenses, and operate ordinary audio equipment.
- Assemble, describe, take apart and reassemble constructions using interlocking blocks, erector sets, and the like.
- Make something out of paper, cardboard, wood, plastic, metal, or existing objects that can actually be used to perform a task.
- Measure the length in whole units of objects having straight edges.
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D. Communication Skills
By the end of 2nd grade, students should know that:
- Describe and compare things in terms of number, shape, texture, size, weight, color, and motion.
- Draw pictures that correctly portray at least some features of the thing being described.
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