Mathematics · Pacing guide · 2026–27

Grade 2 math in Oakland Unified

Oakland Unified's plan for teaching grade 2 math: what is taught each school day from August 10, 2026 to May 19, 2027. Copied from the district's own guide, OUSD_G2_Math_ModuleMap_26-27, as it stood on October 25, 2026.

Overview of today's school system as applied by Oakland Unified School District:

one schedule for every grade 2 classroom.

ModuleDatesLessons Assessment daysFlex days
Unit 0: Classroom Culture and Routines Aug 10 – Aug 14, 2026 5 0 0
Module 1: Place Value Concepts Through Metric Measurement and Data Aug 17 – Oct 16, 2026 38 2 2
Module 2: Addition and Subtraction Within 200 Oct 20 – Dec 10, 2026 27 5 0
Module 3: Shapes and Time with Fraction Concepts Dec 11, 2026 – Feb 1, 2027 19 5 0
Module 4: Addition and Subtraction Within 1,000 Feb 2 – Mar 12, 2027 24 4 0
Module 5: Money, Data, and Customary Measurement Mar 16 – Apr 16, 2027 16 2 0
Module 6: Multiplication and Division Foundations Apr 20 – May 19, 2027 18 2 2

Unit 0: Classroom Culture and Routines

Aug 10 – Aug 14, 2026 · 5 lessons

Day by day (5 school days)
Lesson 1: Classroom Culture — Establish math norms, group roles, and 'Math is for everyone' anchor chart.
Lesson 2: Number Routines — Introduce Number Talks and 'Quick Image' / 'How many?' routines.
Lesson 3: Math Tools Tour — Explore counters, place value tools, rulers, and manipulatives.
Lesson 4: Problem-Solving Protocol — Introduce Read–Draw–Write (RDW) with a low-floor task.
Lesson 5: i-Ready Math Diagnostic kickoff + Equip Module 1 Pre-Module Assessment (optional).

Module 1: Place Value Concepts Through Metric Measurement and Data

Aug 17 – Oct 16, 2026 · 38 lessons · 2 assessment days · 2 flex days

  • Represent Data to Solve Problems
  • Metric Measurement and Concepts About the Ruler
  • Estimate, Measure, and Compare Lengths
  • Solve Compare Problems by Using the Ruler as a Number Line
  • Understand Place Value Units
  • Express Three-Digit Numbers In Different Forms
  • Model Base-Ten Numbers Within 1,000 with Money
  • Compose and Decompose with Place Value Disks
Day by day (45 school days)
Represent Data to Solve Problems
Lesson 1: Draw and label a picture graph to represent data.
Lesson 2: Draw and label a bar graph to represent data.
Lesson 3: Use information presented in a bar graph to solve put together and take apart problems.
Lesson 4: Use information presented in a bar graph to solve compare problems.
Metric Measurement and Concepts About the Ruler
Lesson 5: Connect measurement to physical units by iterating a centimeter cube. / Topic A Topic Ticket
Lesson 6: Make a 10 cm ruler and measure objects. + Data Talk: 'Animals Gliding Over' (10 min)
Lesson 7: Measure lengths and relate 10 cm and 1 cm.
Lesson 8: Make a meter stick and measure with various tools.
Lesson 9: Relate 1 cm, 10 cm, and 100 cm.
Lesson 10: Reason about the relationship between the size of the unit and the number of units needed to measure.
Estimate, Measure, and Compare Lengths
Lesson 11: Estimate and compare lengths. / Topic B Topic Ticket
Lesson 12: Model and reason about the difference in length. + Data Talk: 'Calcium in Foods' (10 min)
Lesson 13: Estimate and measure height to model metric relationships.
Lesson 14: Represent and compare students’ heights.
Solve Compare Problems by Using the Ruler as a Number Line
Lesson 15: Use a measuring tape as a number line to add efficiently. / Topic C Topic Ticket
Labor Day
Lesson 16: Use a measuring tape as a number line to subtract efficiently.
Lesson 17: Represent and solve comparison problems by using measurement contexts.
Lesson 18: Solve compare with difference unknown word problems by using measurement contexts. + Data Talk: 'Growing Times for' (10 min)
Lesson 19: Solve compare with difference unknown word problems in various contexts.
Understand Place Value Units
Lesson 20: Count and bundle ones, tens, and hundreds to 1,000. / Topic D Topic Ticket
Lesson 21: Count efficiently within 1,000 by using ones, tens, and hundreds.
Lesson 22: Use counting strategies to solve add to with change unknown word problems.
Lesson 23: Organize, count, and record a collection of objects.
Professional Development (PD) Day
Express Three-Digit Numbers In Different Forms
Lesson 24: Count up to 1,000 by using place value units. / Topic E Topic Ticket
Lesson 25: Write three-digit numbers in unit form and show the value that each digit represents.
Lesson 26: Write base-ten numbers in expanded form.
Lesson 27: Read, write, and relate base-ten numbers in all forms.
Model Base-Ten Numbers Within 1,000 with Money
Lesson 28: Use place value understanding to count and exchange $1, $10, and / Topic F Topic Ticket
Lesson 29: Count by $1, $10, and $100.
Lesson 30: Determine how many $10 bills are equal to $1,000.
Compose and Decompose with Place Value Disks
Lesson 31: Count the total value of ones, tens, and hundreds with place value / Topic G Topic Ticket
Lesson 32: Exchange 10 ones for 1 ten, 10 tens for 1 hundred, and 10 hundreds for 1 thousand.
Lesson 33: Model numbers with more than 9 ones or 9 tens.
Lesson 34: Problem solve in situations with more than 9 ones or 9 tens.
Lesson 35: Compare three-digit numbers by using >, =, and <. / Topic H Topic Ticket
Lesson 36: Apply place value understanding to compare by using >, =, and <.
Lesson 37: Organize, count, represent, and compare a collection of objects.
Lesson 38: Compare numbers in different forms.
Indigenous Peoples' Day
Flex Day: Data Investigation: 'Growing Bean'
Flex Day — Spiral Review, reteach, or enrichment.
Benchmark 1 — Session 1
Benchmark 1 — Session 2

Module 2: Addition and Subtraction Within 200

Oct 20 – Dec 10, 2026 · 27 lessons · 5 assessment days Being taught now

  • Simplifying Strategies for Addition
  • Strategies for Composing a Ten and a Hundred to Add
  • Simplifying Strategies for Subtraction
  • Strategies for Decomposing a Ten and a Hundred to Subtract
Day by day (38 school days)
Simplifying Strategies for Addition
Lesson 1: Reason about addition with four addends.
Lesson 2: Break apart and add like units.
Lesson 3: Use compensation to add within 100.
Lesson 4: Use compensation to add within 200.
Lesson 5: Make a ten to add within 100.
Lesson 6: Make a ten to add within 200. + Data Talk: 'Penguins in Antarctica' (10 min)
Lesson 7: Solve word problems by using estimation and simplifying strategies for addition.
Topic A Topic Ticket + Flex: Data Talk: 'California Condors' (10 min)
Strategies for Composing a Ten and a Hundred to Add
Lesson 8: Use concrete models to compose a ten.
Lesson 9: Use place value drawings to compose a ten and relate to written recordings.
Lesson 10: Use concrete models to compose a hundred.
Lesson 11: Use math drawings to compose a hundred and relate to written recordings.
Lesson 12: Use place value drawings to compose a ten and a hundred with two‑ and three-digit addends. Relate to written recordings.
Topic B Topic Ticket + Flex
Simplifying Strategies for Subtraction
Lesson 13: Estimate and represent to solve take from word problems.
Lesson 14: Use addition and subtraction strategies to find an unknown part.
Veterans' Day
Lesson 15: Use compensation to subtract within 100.
Lesson 16: Use compensation to subtract within 200.
Lesson 17: Take from a ten to subtract within 200.
Lesson 18: Take from a hundred to subtract within 200.
Lesson 19: Solve word problems with simplifying strategies for subtraction.
Topic C Topic Ticket + Flex
Strategies for Decomposing a Ten and a Hundred to Subtract
Lesson 20: Reason about when to unbundle a ten to subtract.
Thanksgiving Break
Thanksgiving Break
Thanksgiving Break
Thanksgiving Break
Thanksgiving Break
Lesson 21: Use concrete models to decompose a ten with two-digit totals.
Lesson 22: Use place value drawings to decompose a ten and relate them to written recordings.
Lesson 23: Use concrete models and drawings to decompose a hundred.
Lesson 24: Use place value drawings to decompose a hundred and relate them to written recordings.
Lesson 25: Use place value drawings to subtract with two decompositions.
Lesson 26: Solve add to and take from with start unknown word problems.
Lesson 27: Solve two-step word problems within 100.
Topic D Topic Ticket + Flex
Module 2 Module Assessment

Module 3: Shapes and Time with Fraction Concepts

Dec 11, 2026 – Feb 1, 2027 · 19 lessons · 5 assessment days

  • Attributes of Geometric Shapes
  • Composite Shapes and Fraction Conceptsn
  • Halves, Thirds, and Fourths of Circles and Rectangles
  • Application of Fractions to Tell Times
Day by day (37 school days)
Attributes of Geometric Shapes
Lesson 1: Determine the defining attributes of a polygon.
Lesson 2: Use attributes to identify, build, and describe two-dimensional shapes.
Lesson 3: Identify, build, and describe right angles and parallel lines.
Lesson 4: Use attributes to identify, classify, and compose different quadrilaterals.
Lesson 5: Relate the square to the cube and use attributes to describe a cube.
Topic A Topic Ticket + Flex: Data Talk: 'US National Park' (10 min)
Winter Break
Winter Break
Winter Break
Winter Break
Winter Break
Winter Break
Winter Break
Winter Break
Winter Break
Winter Break / New Year's Day
Winter Break
Professional Development (PD) Day
Composite Shapes and Fraction Conceptsn
Lesson 6: Recognize that a whole polygon can be decomposed into smaller parts and the parts can be composed to make a whole. + Data Talk: 'Our Favorite Seasons' (10 min)
Lesson 7: Combine shapes to create a composite shape and create a new shape from composite shapes.
Lesson 8: Create composite shapes by using equal parts and name them as halves, thirds, and fourths.
Lesson 9: Interpret equal shares in composite shapes as halves, thirds, and fourths.
Topic B Topic Ticket + Flex: Data Investigation: 'Seasons'
Halves, Thirds, and Fourths of Circles and Rectangles
Lesson 10: Partition circles and rectangles into equal parts and describe those parts as halves.
Lesson 11: Partition circles and rectangles into equal parts, and describe those parts as halves, thirds, or fourths.
Lesson 12: Describe a whole by the number of equal parts in halves, thirds, and fourths.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Lesson 13: Recognize that equal parts of an identical rectangle can be different shapes.
Topic C Topic Ticket + Flex
Application of Fractions to Tell Times
Lesson 14: Distinguish between a.m. and p.m.
Lesson 15: Recognize time as measurement units.
Lesson 16: Use a clock to tell time to the half hour or quarter hour.
Lesson 17: Relate the clock to a number line to count by fives.
Lesson 18: Tell time to the nearest 5 minutes.
Lesson 19: Solve elapsed time problems.
Benchmark 2 — Session 1
Benchmark 2 — Session 2

Module 4: Addition and Subtraction Within 1,000

Feb 2 – Mar 12, 2027 · 24 lessons · 4 assessment days

  • Mental Place Value Strategies
  • Strategies for Composing Tens and Hundreds Within 1,000
  • Simplifying Strategies for Subtracting Within 1,000
  • Strategies for Decomposing Tens and Hundreds Within 1,000
  • Apply Efficient Addition and Subtraction Strategies
Day by day (29 school days)
Mental Place Value Strategies
Lesson 1: Organize, count, and represent a collection of objects.
Lesson 2: Mentally add and subtract multiples of 10 and 100 with unknowns in various positions.
Lesson 3: Solve multi-step word problems and reason about equal expressions.
Lesson 4: Represent and solve compare with bigger unknown word problems.
Strategies for Composing Tens and Hundreds Within 1,000
Lesson 5: Use the associative property to make a benchmark number to add / Topic A Topic Ticket
Lesson 6: Use compensation to add within 1,000. + Data Talk: 'Got Water?' (10 min)
Lesson 7: Use concrete models to add and relate them to written recordings.
Lesson 8: Use place value drawings to represent addition and relate them to written recordings, part 1.
Lesson 9: Use place value drawings to represent addition and relate them to written recordings, part 2.
Presidents' Day
Lesson 10: Choose and defend efficient solution strategies for addition.
Lesson 11: Choose and defend efficient strategies to add up to four two-digit numbers.
Simplifying Strategies for Subtracting Within 1,000
Lesson 12: Take from a ten or a hundred to subtract. / Topic B Topic Ticket + Data Talk: 'The Right to Vote' (10 min)
Lesson 13: Use compensation to subtract within 1,000.
Lesson 14: Use compensation to keep a constant difference by adding the same amount to both numbers.
Lesson 15: Use compensation to keep a constant difference by subtracting the same amount from both numbers.
Strategies for Decomposing Tens and Hundreds Within 1,000
Lesson 16: Use concrete models to subtract and relate them to written recordings. / Topic C Topic Ticket
Lesson 17: Use place value drawings to represent subtraction with one decomposition and relate them to written recordings.
Lesson 18: Use place value drawings to represent subtraction with up to two decompositions and relate them to written recordings.
Lesson 19: Use place value drawings to represent subtraction from numbers with
Lesson 20: Subtract by using multiple strategies and defend an efficient strategy.
Apply Efficient Addition and Subtraction Strategies
Lesson 21: Apply strategies to find sums and differences and relate addition to / Topic D Topic Ticket
Lesson 22: Solve compare with smaller unknown word problems.
Lesson 23: Solve two-step addition and subtraction word problems.
Lesson 24: Organize, count, and represent a collection of objects.
Topic E Topic Ticket + Flex
Flex Day: Performance Assessment: 'Board' (30 min)
Flex Day: Performance Assessment: 'Hot Air' (30 min)
Module 4 Module Assessment

Module 5: Money, Data, and Customary Measurement

Mar 16 – Apr 16, 2027 · 16 lessons · 2 assessment days

  • Problem Solving with Coins and Bills
  • Use Customary Units to Measure and Estimate Length
  • Use Measurement and Data to Solve Problems
Day by day (24 school days)
Problem Solving with Coins and Bills
Lesson 1: Organize, count, and represent a collection of coins.
Lesson 2: Use the fewest number of coins to make a given value.
Lesson 3: Solve one- and two-step word problems to find the total value of a group of coins.
Lesson 4: Solve one- and two-step word problems to find the total value of a group of bills.
Lesson 5: Use different strategies to make 1 dollar or to make change from
Lesson 6: Solve word problems by using different ways to make change from + Data Talk: 'Olympic Baseball' (10 min)
Lesson 7: Solve word problems by using bills and coins. / Topic A Topic Ticket
Use Customary Units to Measure and Estimate Length
Lesson 8: Iterate an inch tile to create a unit ruler and measure to the
Cesar Chavez Day (in Lieu)
Spring Break
Spring Break
Spring Break
Spring Break
Spring Break
Lesson 9: Use an inch ruler and a yard stick to estimate and measure the length of various objects.
Lesson 10: Measure an object twice by using different length units, and compare and relate measurement to unit size.
Lesson 11: Measure to compare differences in lengths.
Lesson 12: Identify unknown numbers on a number line by using the interval as a reference point. + Data Talk: 'The Heights of Trees' (10 min)
Use Measurement and Data to Solve Problems
Lesson 13: Solve word problems that involve measurements and reason about estimates. / Topic B Topic Ticket
Lesson 14: Solve addition and subtraction two-step word problems that involve length.
Lesson 15: Use measurement data to create a line plot.
Lesson 16: Create a line plot to represent data and ask and answer questions.
Topic C Topic Ticket + Flex
Module 5 Module Assessment

Module 6: Multiplication and Division Foundations

Apr 20 – May 19, 2027 · 18 lessons · 2 assessment days · 2 flex days

  • Count and Problem Solve with Equal Groups
  • Arrays and Equal Groups
  • Rectangular Arrays as a Foundation for Multiplication and Division
  • The Meaning of Even and Odd Numbers
Day by day (22 school days)
Count and Problem Solve with Equal Groups
Lesson 1: Compose equal groups and write repeated addition equations.
Lesson 2: Organize, count, and represent a collection of objects.
Lesson 3: Use math drawings to represent equal groups and relate them to repeated addition.
Lesson 4: Represent equal groups with a tape diagram.
Arrays and Equal Groups
Lesson 5: Compose arrays with rows and columns and use a repeated count to find the total. / Topic A Topic Ticket
Lesson 6: Decompose arrays into rows and columns and relate them to repeated addition. + Data Talk: 'Highways Across' (10 min)
Lesson 7: Distinguish between rows and columns and use math drawings to represent arrays.
Lesson 8: Use square tiles to create arrays with gaps.
Rectangular Arrays as a Foundation for Multiplication and Division
Lesson 9: Determine the attributes of a square array. / Topic B Topic Ticket
Lesson 10: Use math drawings to compose a rectangle.
Lesson 11: Decompose an array to find the total efficiently.
Lesson 12: Reason about how equal arrays can be composed differently. + Data Talk: 'Condor Conservation' (10 min)
Lesson 13: Decompose an array and relate it to a number bond.
The Meaning of Even and Odd Numbers
Lesson 14: Relate doubles to even numbers and write equa-tions to express / Topic C Topic Ticket
Lesson 15: Pair objects and skip-count to determine whether a number is even or odd.
Lesson 16: Use rectangular arrays to investigate combinations of even and odd numbers.
Lesson 17: Solve word problems that involve equal groups and arrays.
Lesson 18: Use various strategies to fluently add and subtract within 100 and know all sums and differences within 20 from memory. / Topic D Topic Ticket
Flex Day: Performance Assessment: 'School' (30 min)
Flex Day — Spiral Review, reteach, or enrichment.
Flex Day — Spiral Review, reteach, or enrichment.
Benchmark 3 — Session 1

Source: Oakland Unified's math pages, which links the guide. The district's sheet has more for teachers than this page shows.