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2nd grade math word problems

A free printable sheet of 8 Grade 2 word problems, with a hint for a grown-up under each one and an answer key worked out by Kizupi’s math engine. Press New sheet for another.

By The Kizupi team · Updated October 27, 2026

Grade 2 word problems

Name: ____________________

  1. On Maple Street, the houses on one side have even numbers: 686, 688, 690, and so on. Kizupi has a letter for the next even house after 690. What is its number?

    Hint for a grown-up: What digits do even numbers end with?

  2. For the zoo lunch, Kizupi picks one sandwich and one fruit. There are 3 kinds of sandwich and 5 kinds of fruit. How many different lunches can Kizupi make?

    Hint for a grown-up: Pick one sandwich. How many fruits could go with it?

  3. A snail wants to climb to the top of a 19 cm lemonade jug. Each day it climbs up 4 cm. Each night it slides back down 1 cm. On which day does the snail reach the top?

    Hint for a grown-up: How far up is the snail after one day and one night?

  4. The treasure trail is 30 meters long. Kizupi puts a flag at the start, a flag at the end, and a flag every 5 meters in between. How many flags does Kizupi need?

    Hint for a grown-up: How many gaps of 5 meters fit along the trail?

  5. The big farm has a long row of fence posts, numbered from 145 to 164. Each post has its own number. How many fence posts are in the row?

    Hint for a grown-up: Try a small row first: posts 1 to 5. How many posts is that? What is 5 − 1?

  6. I am a 2-digit number. My tens digit is 1. My ones digit is 6 more than my tens digit. What number am I?

    Hint for a grown-up: What is 1 + 6?

  7. A frog at the zoo pond jumps 5 steps at a time. It starts at 0 and makes 5 jumps. Where does it land?

    Hint for a grown-up: After the first jump, where is the frog?

  8. Jack has 129 sunflower seeds. The farmer gives Jack 198 more. How many seeds does Jack have now? Tip: 198 is close to a round number.

    Hint for a grown-up: Which round number is 198 close to? How far away is it?

From kizupi.com/tools · Grade 2, sheet 2028

What 2nd grade math is about

The Common Core math standards say Grade 2 time should go to these areas [1]:

  • Place value to 1,000
  • Fluent adding and subtracting
  • Measuring with standard units
  • Describing and analyzing shapes

Word problems are where those skills meet a story. Being able to compute is not the same as knowing which computation a story needs, which is why each problem here comes with a question to ask, not the answer.

The 50 skills on these sheets

Each sheet draws 8 problems from 75 Grade 2 word problems in Kizupi’s published lessons, a different skill for each where it can. Only problems that work on paper are used: nothing that needs a picture to count or a clock to read.

Place value to 1,000 · Adding in your head · Two-step problems · Star puzzles · Equal groups · Perimeter · Making change · Making 100 · Subtracting with borrowing · Heads and legs · Perimeter of joined shapes · Facts to 100 in your head · Adding three-digit numbers · Subtracting three-digit numbers · Subtracting across zeros · Checking with the opposite · Estimating sums · Adding up to four numbers · Add 99, take away 99 · How much more, how much less · Adding and subtracting stories · Counting by 5s, 10s and 100s · Hundreds, tens and ones puzzles · 10 more, 100 more · Comparing three-digit numbers · Putting numbers in order · Odd and even numbers · Rounding to the nearest ten · Rounding to the nearest hundred · Skip counting groups · Arrays · Rows and columns · Doubling · Halving · Dollars and cents · Centimeters and meters · Inches and feet · How much longer · Line plots · Money stories · Naming shapes by sides and corners · Rows and columns of squares · Halves, thirds and fourths · Magic squares · Sum and difference puzzles · Age puzzles · Who has which? · Number riddles · Estimating lengths · Fewest coins

Questions parents ask

What kind of word problems do 2nd graders do?

The Common Core centers Grade 2 on place value to 1,000; fluent adding and subtracting; measuring with standard units; describing and analyzing shapes. The sheets here mix 50 skills from that year.

Is the 2nd grade worksheet free?

Yes. No account and no email. Print as many sheets as you like.

Are the answers right?

Every answer is computed with exact arithmetic by the same engine that checks children’s answers in Kizupi, not typed in by hand.

My child finds 2nd grade word problems hard. What helps?

Read the problem aloud together and ask what the story is about before any numbers. Use the hint under each problem, then ask “how do you know?” If it is still hard, try a Grade 1 sheet first.

2nd grade word problems by topic

Other grades

Sources

  1. Common Core State Standards Initiative, Grade 2 introduction. Read October 27, 2026.

Want a tutor that asks “how do you know?” every day? Kizupi’s pixel owl reads each problem aloud, hints one small step at a time and never hands over the answer. Grades 1–6.

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