Are these math problems right on level for a 2nd grader?

[blessedmom3]

To me they seem a challenging . My 7yo can do it but needs some help. Are these appropriate for an average 2nd grader? I found them somewhat harder than Singapore CWP 2 .

 

 

 

* Rye is four years older than her brother Tom. Six years from now , she will be 20 . How old is Tom?

 

*Matthew has some baseball cards. Patrick has half as many cards as Mathew. If Patrick has 10 cards , how many cards does Mathew have?

 

* Dee is 58 years old. Joe is 1/2 old Dee's age. How old is Joe?

 

From beestar.com , 2nd grade Math

[3peasinapod]

They seem challenging to me. My DD would need major help. She could get the second one, but not the others.

Edited October 26, 2010 by 3peasinapod

[Dmmetler]

I think they are as far as comprehending what's happening, but I know my 3rd grade tutoring students would come in with similar problems and such wonderful strategies as "Draw 58 dots. Cross out every other dot. Count what's left", because they were on our state test.

[8filltheheart]

They don't seem that difficult to me. I asked my 3rd grader and she answered all of them very easily as soon as I read them to her. Whether or not she could have done it that easily at the beginning of 2nd grade, I don't really know. I don't have a 2nd grader this yr to ask. ;)

[amyrjoy]

They'd be kinda tough for my second grader. She could probably get that second problem. The other two, no way. Thats definitely beyond where we are in abeka 2 and Saxon 2!

[1GirlTwinBoys]

My 2nd grader would not be able to answer ?'s like that.

[stripe]

* Rye is four years older than her brother Tom. Six years from now , she will be 20 . How old is Tom?

 

This (the first) seems the easiest to me, as it requires ONLY addition/subtraction, not fractions as in the others, which are both about halves.

[blessedmom3]

Thanks, it makes me feel better :) My son can do the computations involved but he has problems with the critical thinking of the exercises . He is not sure how to do it unless I guide him through the steps .

[TracyP]

I just asked my 2nd grade (in math) dd. She answered 14 on the first one and I walked her through to Tom's age. She answered #2 easily and had no idea on #3. HTH!

[FO4UR]

My ds7 needs help holding the first part of the problem in his head to get the 2nd part.

 

Those are problems I would do with my ds7, but not expect him to do alone.

[hsbaby]

My second grader was able to do number 2, but not 1 or 3. This was just with them being read aloud. I think he could do 3 if he wrote it out, but not number 1.

[skueppers]

Out of idle curiosity, I simplified problem 1 so that the girl was going to be 10 instead of 20. I left the rest of the wording the same and asked my Kindergartner.

 

She had no idea what to do with it. I read it to her about three times. I suggested that the critical issue was to figure out how old the girl is right now. After she thought about it and expressed confusion, I told her everything she needed to know was in the second sentence, and re-read just that sentence. She figured out how old the girl was.

 

Then I read her the entire problem again, and she was able to tell me how old the boy was.

 

I think I would probably expect her to be able to do a problem like this without help two years from now. But I have no idea what is typical.

[Haiku]

My third grader got all three. My second grader got the first two. I don't consider my second grader to be especially adept in math or problem solving, so I am surprised he got any of them. I didn't think he would.

 

Tara

[abbeyej]

Oops, I misread. ... One of my kids would have had no problem at all with those in 2nd grade. The other, in third grade, would need a lot of leading questions in order to figure them out.

[Halcyon]

Beginning of 2nd grade, probably not. Middle to end of 2nd grade, probably yes.

[EKS]

I use the CWP books a level behind. They just seem to work better that way.