Year 2 maths worksheet: ten questions to print, with answers

A good Year 2 maths worksheet is short. It practises one or two ideas your child has already met, and the answers are on the page. This guide has a sheet you can print now, the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you.

What each slip tells you

Mark the sheet together. A wrong answer is useful. It shows which lesson to open next.

• Question 1, answer 63. The tens and ones are swapped. Use ten-sticks and single cubes, or bundles of ten pencils.
• Question 2, 47 before 40. Your child looked at the ones first. Look at the tens first, then the ones.
• Question 4, answer 18. The start number was counted as a jump. Count the jumps, not the number you start on: 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.
• Question 5, answer 26. 3 was added, not 30. Count on in tens: 33, 43, 53.
• Question 7, answer 5. The numbers were added. Draw three bags and put two dots in each.
• Question 9, answer 6. That is half, not a quarter. Halve it, then halve it again.
• Question 10, “6 o’clock” or “half past 4”. The long hand at 6 means half past. The hour is the number the short hand has just passed.

What a Year 2 sheet should cover

A Year 2 child in England is six or seven. The England Year 2 maths page lists the lessons in order. A sheet should take its questions from these:

• Number and place value. Numbers to 20, then numbers to 99. Tens and ones.
• Counting in steps. In 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s, up to 100.
• Addition and subtraction. Within 10, then 20, then 99.
• Multiplication and division. Equal groups, repeated addition, and sharing.
• Fractions. Halves and quarters of a shape, and of a group of objects.
• Time. O’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to.
• Measures and shape. Length in centimetres and metres, mass, capacity, and the names of solid shapes.

One sheet does not need all of them. The sheet above uses the first six.

How long to sit

Ten minutes is enough for a six or seven year old. Stop when the time ends, even if a question is half done. A short sitting that happens again tomorrow is better than a long one that ends in tears.

Sit next to your child for the first two questions. Then let them work. Read a question out loud if the reading is what slows them down. This is a maths sheet, not a reading test.

What to leave off the sheet

• Long word problems. One sentence is enough at this age.
• Numbers above 100.
• Anything from a later year, such as written column methods.
• More than ten questions.

If your child is still meeting numbers to 20, a sheet of numbers to 99 can wait. One skill, a few questions, the answer on the page.

Make the next sheet yourself

Keep the same ten question types and change the numbers.

• Question 1: pick any tens and ones up to 99.
• Question 3: change to counting in 2s or 10s.
• Questions 4 to 6: keep the answers under 100.
• Question 7: use 2, 5 or 10 in each group.
• Questions 8 and 9: use a number that halves twice, such as 4, 8, 12, 16 or 20.
• Question 10: use o’clock, half past, quarter past or quarter to.

If the same question type goes wrong twice, stop making sheets for it. Go to the lesson.

The lessons behind the sheet

Each idea on the sheet has a lesson on the Year 2 maths page. A lesson is a short video, then practice questions on that idea. Your child can pause the video and try the step again.

Start with the lesson that matches the first question your child got wrong. Then print the sheet again next week and see what changed.

Other year groups are on Maths. What the programme includes is on the pricing page.