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Learn · Illustrative Mathematics K–5 · Grade 2 · Unit 4

Adding & Subtracting on the Number Line

Short lessons you can play with. Find numbers on a number line, compare and estimate, then add and subtract with jumps, then check yourself. Tap Read to me to hear any step read aloud.

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For grown-ups

How it works

Five short chapters follow the unit’s lessons in order. Each step shows one idea with something to tap or move, then a quick check. A wrong answer names the likely mistake and gives one more try.

Read to me

The Read to me buttons read each step and quick check aloud with the device’s built-in voice, for students still learning to read. Progress is saved on this device.

Numbers

All numbers are within 100. Jumps stop at a ten on the way, or go by tens and then ones, so each problem needs at most one new or broken ten.

The big idea

On a number line, a number is a length from 0. Adding is a jump to the right, subtracting is a jump to the left, and the difference between two numbers is the distance between them.

Not covered

Center Days (Lessons 6 and 14) and Riddles (Lesson 15) are optional lessons that work better in class. There’s no practice game for this unit yet.