2.NBT.2 Common Core Worksheet

This 2.NBT.2 Common Core Worksheet gives second graders focused practice with skip counting inside the numbers they meet every day. Standard 2.NBT.2 asks students to count within 1000 and to skip-count by fives, tens, and hundreds, and that skill is the bridge between rote counting and real place value understanding. When a child can count on by tens from 580 and by hundreds from 600, they are not reciting a list. They are noticing that the tens digit climbs while the ones digit holds still, and that the hundreds digit climbs while everything to its right stays put. That noticing is what makes mental math, rounding, and adding on a number line feel easy later.

This 2nd grade skip counting worksheet puts that practice into number strips a child can finish quickly and check for themselves. Part A holds four rows counted by tens, and Part B holds two rows counted by hundreds. Two numbers are already printed in every row, and they sit in a different pair of spots each time, so a student has to read the numbers and work out the step instead of copying a pattern down the page. Three rows cross a tricky boundary, counting 90 to 100, 990 to 1000, and 900 to 1000, which is exactly where second graders stumble. Print it for morning work, a math center, a quick check before a unit test, or homework, and use the included answer key to grade it in seconds.

What’s Included

• A one page printable worksheet with 6 number strips and 18 missing numbers to fill in
• Part A: four rows of counting on by tens within 1000
• Part B: two rows of counting on by hundreds to 1000
• Large, clearly boxed number cards sized for second grade handwriting
• A full answer key on the final page
• Name and date lines, and a clean print friendly layout in black, white, and blue

This 2.NBT.2 Common Core Worksheet helps kids learn skip counting in three ways. First, the missing numbers are spread through each row rather than bunched at the end, so a child practices counting forward from a given number instead of only continuing from the last box. Second, the rows deliberately cross the hundreds and the thousand, which turns an abstract rule about place value into something a student sees happen in front of them. Third, the printed numbers change position from row to row, so every strip is a fresh problem and the sheet cannot be finished on autopilot.

Teachers and parents can stretch this activity in a lot of fun ways. Read a completed row out loud together as a chant, then clap on every hundred. Hand a student a hundred chart and ask them to find the row that matches. Start a class count at 70 and pass it around the circle, each child adding ten. Use base ten blocks to build 240 and then add a ten rod at a time so the counting becomes something children can hold. Turn the last row into a challenge and ask what would come after 1000. For a quick warm up, cover one box and let a partner guess the number.

Related Resources

• Counting by Tens Assessment Worksheet
• Thanksgiving Skip Counting Worksheet
• Skip Counting With Apples 5 10 100 Activity
• Counting By Tens Song (MP3)