2nd Grade Learning Games and Printable Worksheets

Six free games for second graders, weighted toward the two things that matter most this year: addition facts becoming automatic, and reading becoming fluent enough to stop being work.

2nd Grade Math Games

• Addition Game – Solve the problem mentally, click the answer. Addition within 20 is the skill second grade is built on, and the only route to it is repetition. Comes with a printable addition worksheet.
• Times Tables – Pick a table and practice. Most second graders start with the 2s, 5s, and 10s, which are counting patterns they half-know already. Printable worksheet included.
• The Mystery Number – Higher-and-lower guessing. Good for number sense and for teaching children to narrow a range instead of guessing at random.

Reading and Spelling Games

• Word Scramble – Unscramble letters to make a word. It forces children to hold letters in working memory and test combinations, which is harder and more useful than it looks.
• Alphabetical Order – ABC ordering, the skill behind dictionaries and indexes.
• Family Vocabulary – Audio-led vocabulary practice.

What Your Child Practices Here

Mental addition within 20. Early multiplication facts. Spelling and letter patterns. Alphabetical ordering. Number sense and estimation.

We don’t currently have games for place value, measurement, or grammar. Those are second grade topics and we’re not going to pretend otherwise.

Printable 2nd Grade Worksheets

The addition and times tables games each have a worksheet you can download and print, free.

Other Grades

Younger: 1st grade games
Older: 3rd grade games