Freedom when you want it,

structure where you choose it. Year 2

Abacus is a unique maths toolkit for inspiring a love of maths and ensuring progression for every
child. Written by an expert author team, it has been carefully crafted on a robust approach to
creating inspired and confident young mathematicians. Textbook
Part of the Abacus toolkit, the textbooks provide:
• the perfect balance of practice and problem solving for each area of maths
• pictorial representations to support children’s conceptual understanding
• clearly laid out questions with instructions that are easy to follow
• a self-assessment opportunity on every page
• colour to indicate the different maths areas within the programme.

Series Editor: Ruth Merttens

Authors: Jennie Kerwin and Hilda Merttens

www.pearsonschools.co.uk T 0845 630 33 33

[email protected] F 0845 630 77 77

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 Contents

How to use this book 3

Placing numbers on a 0–100 number line 4
Counting on in 10s and 1s 5–6
Bonds to 10 and doubles 7–8
Subtracting by counting back in 10s and 1s 9–10
Adding 2-digit numbers 11–13
Measuring capacity 14
Doubling and halving 15–16
1 1 1
Finding 2 , 4 and 3 17
Subtracting 2-digit numbers 18
Using number facts 19–20
Recording amounts of money 21
Multiplication arrays 22–23
Multiplying by 2, 3 and 5 24
Multiplying by 3 and 4 25
Measuring length 26–27
Reading temperatures 28–29
Hundreds, tens and ones 30
Practising calculations 31

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 Key
Number and Place Value
Addition and Subtraction
Multiplication and Division
Shape and Measure
Fractions and Decimals
Mixed Operations

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 How to use this book
This book is a little different from your workbook!
Follow the instructions and write the questions and
answers out in your own maths book.

The first page of each

section will have a title
telling you what the next
few pages are about. Your teacher
may tell you to
GRAB something
Some pages that might help
Read the instructions you answer the
will show you
carefully before each questions.
an example
set of questions.
or model.

Placing numbers on a 0–100 Counting on in 10s and 1s

number line Beaded number line Real 10p and 1p coins
or number line
Add the money next to the purse to the money
Draw a 0–100 number line on A3 paper. in the purse.
Follow these instructions.
1 4
1 Mark 50, 25 and 75 in black. 33p 53p
2 Mark 99, 48 and 20 in red. 0 100 + +
3 Mark 10, 30, 40, 60, 70, 80 and 90 in green.
= =

Draw another 0–100 number line. Order the 2 5

Follow these instructions. numbers from
smallest to biggest 45p 70p
4 Mark 50, 20, 45 and 80 in blue. to help you.
+ +
5 Mark 15, 72, 60 and 90 in red.
= =
6 Mark 5, 95, 55 and 30 in green.
3 6

Draw another 0–100 number line.

Follow the instructions. 64p 47p
7 Choose six new numbers to mark. + +
= =

Draw another 0–100 number line.

Choose six new numbers to mark. Write an addition of two amounts
Make them 9 away from each other. of money with a total of 50p.

I am confident with placing numbers on a 0–100 I am confident with adding money by counting
4 number line. on in 10s and 1s. 5

THINK questions will

challenge you to Sometimes a Choose a traffic light
think more about the character will colour to say how
maths on the page. give you a tip. confident you are with
the maths on the page.

Each area of
maths has its
own colour.

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 Placing numbers on a 0–100
number line Beaded number line
or number line

Draw a 0–100 number line on A3 paper.

Follow these instructions.
1 Mark 50, 25 and 75 in black.
2 Mark 99, 48 and 20 in red. 0 100
3 Mark 10, 30, 40, 60, 70, 80 and 90 in green.

Draw another 0–100 number line. Order the

Follow these instructions. numbers from
smallest to biggest
4 Mark 50, 20, 45 and 80 in blue. to help you.
5 Mark 15, 72, 60 and 90 in red.
6 Mark 5, 95, 55 and 30 in green.

Draw another 0–100 number line.

Follow the instructions.
7 Choose six new numbers to mark.

Draw another 0–100 number line.

Choose six new numbers to mark.
Make them 9 away from each other.

I am confident with placing numbers on a 0–100

4 number line.
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 Counting on in 10s and 1s
Real 10p and 1p coins

Add the money next to the purse to the money

in the purse.

1 4
33p 53p
+ +
= =

2 5

45p 70p
+ +
= =

3 6

64p 47p
+ +
= =

Write an addition of two amounts

of money with a total of 50p.

I am confident with adding money by counting

on in 10s and 1s. 5
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 Complete these additions.

1 53 + 42 = 5 85 + 41 =

2 63 + 26 = 6 96 + 22 =

3 35 + 44 = 7 33 + 92 =

4 24 + 71 =

Work out the missing number.

8 43 + = 68

9 89 + = 100

Remember
to put the bigger
number first.

Write an addition of three amounts

of money that has a total of 50p.

I am confident with counting on in 10s and 1s.

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 Bonds to 10 and doubles
Complete these additions.

1 6+8+6= 6 4+8+4=

2 3+8+7= 7 7+7+5=

3 5+9+5= 8 8+4+6=

4 4+7+6= 9 9+9+6=

5 9+8+2= 10 7+9+7=

Can you score 16 points?

Play Magic 16 using these rules.
How many sets of three numbers can you
write that have a total of 16? Score 1 point
for each set. Score an extra point for any
set that contains a double. Score an extra
point for any set that contains a bond to 10.

I am confident with adding bonds to 10 and

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 Answer these questions using doubling.

20 40
4 8

What numbers will come out of the machine

if these go in?

1 13 3 21 5 12 7 24

2 14 4 31 6 41 8 25

These numbers came out of the machine.

What numbers went in?

9 30 11 64

10 86 12 42

The machine is broken.

23 was put in and 47 came out.
What is wrong with the machine?

I am confident with doubling 2-digit numbers.

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 Subtracting by counting back
in 10s and 1s
Choose a planet number and subtract a
star number. Write the answer.
Do this ten times.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50

51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60

61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70

71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80

81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90

91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100

Choose three of your answers.

Check them by using addition.

I am confident with subtracting by counting

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 Complete these subtractions by counting back
in 10s and using number facts.

100-square

59 – 36 = 23
6 88 – 44 =

1 37 – 24 = 7 37 – 13 =

2 65 – 13 = 8 54 – 22 =

3 46 – 32 = 9 98 – 56 =

4 79 – 17 = 10 69 – 33 =

5 26 – 23 = 11 86 – 52 =

12 Choose three of the subtractions.

Write the number fact you had to use.
For example: 59 – 36 = 23 9–6=3

– =

Write three subtractions like this where

you would use the number fact 5 – 4 = 1.

I am confident with counting back in 10s and

10 using number facts to subtract.
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 Adding 2-digit numbers
100-square
Add the scores.

6
Sian Jerry Aiza Simon
34 25 34 69
34 + 25 = 59
1 7
Tom Precious Katia Theo
42 27 17 84

2 8
Jay Ellie Dean Cho
53 35 23 85

3 9
Nat Lucy Rahim Tahlia
62 34 97 31

4 10
Emma Mario Dan Faith
45 36 44 73

5 11
Rima Anshu Nina Zoya
28 57 57 61

Olivia estimates the answer to her sum

is 50. One of the numbers she adds is 15.
What is the other number?

I am confident with adding 2-digit numbers by

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 Add the petal numbers from each flower.

Remember
to start with the
bigger number!

16 + 47 =
47 + 16 = 63 5 47 + 32 =

1 35 + 32 = 6 35 + 83 =

2 19 + 57 = 7 16 + 71 =

3 28 + 16 = 8 28 + 57 =

4 64 + 28 = 9 71 + 64 =

Choose any 2-digit numbers to write

an addition that totals 100. Write four
additions like this. Neither 2-digit
number should be a multiple of 10.

I am confident with adding 2-digit numbers by

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 Complete these additions of 2-digit numbers.

1 34 + 23 6 48 + 35
= 50 + 7 = = + =

2 47 + 24 7 74 + 42
= 60 + 1 1 = = + =

3 36 + 48 8 65 + 39
= 70 + 14 = = + =

4 28 + 16 9 57 + 47
= 30 + 14 = = + =

5 64 + 28 10 63 + 68
= 80 + 1 2 = = + =

4 +3 =8

What could the missing digits be?

I am confident with adding 2-digit numbers

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 Measuring capacity
Look at the containers and follow the instructions.
1 Write the letters of the containers that can hold
more than a litre of Orange Fizz.
2 Write the letters of the containers that can hold
less than a litre of Orange Fizz.

Draw a picture of something in your

home that holds more than a litre.

I am confident with knowing how much 1 litre is.

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 Doubling and halving
Double each child's score.

1 3 5

2 4 6

Find half of the money in each purse.

7 9

8 10

Start with 64p. How many times

can you split this amount in half?

I am confident with doubling and halving 2-digit

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 Double each amount.

1 4 7

2 5 8

3 6 9

Which coins can you double

to get another coin?

I am confident with doubling amounts of money

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 1 1 1
Finding 2, 4 and 3
1 1 1
Find 2 , 4 and 3 by looking at the olives on the
pizzas and the candles on the cakes.

1 4

1 1
2 of 10 = 4 of =
2 5

1 1
3 of = 3 of =
3 6

1 1
2 of = 4 of =

One-quarter of a bag of oranges is

5 oranges. How many oranges are in
the whole bag? How many in two bags?

I am confident with finding halves, thirds and

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 Subtracting 2-digit numbers
100-square and Spider

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70
Complete these subtractions.
71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80
1 57 – 23 = 4 95 – 73 =
81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90
2 8491– 52
92 =93 94 95 96 97 98 99 510086 – 45 =

3 68 – 45 = 6 84 – 71 =

Solve these word problems.

7 A teacher opens a new pack of 48 pencils. She
gives a pencil to each of the 32 children in her
class. How many pencils are now left in the pack?
8 There are 59 elephants. 33 are
cooling off in the water. How
many are not in the water?

Make up your own problem

for the subtraction 73 – 42.

I am confident with subtracting 2-digit numbers.

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 Using number facts
Solve these word problems.
1 Mary is playing a game of darts. Her first dart
scores 7, her second scores 5 and her third scores 3.
What is her total score for the three darts?

2 Claire has three coins. Two are 5p coins

and one is a 2p coin. How much money
does she have?

3 In a field there are 8 sheep, 3 goats and 8 cows.

How many animals are there in total?

4 Zoya has 8 grey pencils, 7 coloured pencils and

2 pens in her pencil case. How many items does
she have in her pencil case altogether?

5 Kevin has chicken pox and has 30 spots altogether.

He has 7 spots on each arm and 6 spots on his face.
How many spots are on the rest of his body?

6 Nicola buys a DVD for £6, a

magazine for £4 and a pair
of sunglasses for £7. How much
change from £20 does she get?

Make up your own problem

for the addition 7 + 5 + 7.

I am confident with using number facts to solve

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 Solve these word problems.

1 In a pot there are 7 green pencils, 8 blue pencils,

6 red pencils and 2 orange ones. How many pencils
are there in the pot altogether?
2 On a village pond there are 9 ducks,
5 ducklings, 7 swans and 5 geese.
How many birds are there in total?
3 Miss Jones bakes some cakes for the school fair.
She bakes 8 fairy cakes, 6 iced buns, 9 fruit scones
and 8 doughnuts. If they are all sold for 2p each,
how much money is paid in total?
4 Dan is playing a game with four darts. His first dart
scores 7, his second scores 5, his third scores 8 and
his fourth scores 9. His old score was 25. How many
more did he score this time?
5 Amy, Livvy, Sunita and Mohammed agree to put
their money together for their school charity appeal.
Amy has 5p, Livvy has 7p, Sunita has 9p and
Mohammed has 3p. Sunita’s mum says she will
double their money as it is for a good cause.
How much do they give altogether?
6 Chloe and her friends find conkers under a tree.
Chloe picks up 9 conkers, Jan picks up 7, Zoe picks
up 6 and Rory picks up 8. If there were
40 conkers under the tree, how many
did they leave on the ground?

I am confident with using number facts to solve

20 word problems.
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 Recording amounts of money
Write how much money is shown for each question.

1 6

2 7

3 8

4 9

5 10

Choose a total on this page. Think of

another way to make that amount.

I am confident with adding and recording

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 Multiplication arrays
Write two multiplication facts for each picture.

1 4

2 5

3 6

Draw your own pictures

to show 2 × 3 and 2 × 10.

I am confident with using multiplication arrays.

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 Find out which numbers of plants can be grown
in rectangles with more than one row.

My plants all
grow in rectangles.
Each rectangle must have
more than one row!

Can be Cannot be

3 plants ✔
4 plants ✔

Try all the numbers from 1 to 20.

Draw a table and fill it in.

Number of plants Can be Cannot be

1 ✔
2 ✔
3 ✔
4 ✔

Which numbers can be grown

in more than one rectangle?

I am confident with reading and making

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 Multiplying by 2, 3 and 5
Work out how many How many 2p
coins are needed to coins will I need
make the amounts. to make 6p?

3 × 2p = 6p

1 × 2p = 8p 4 × 5p = 10p

2 × 2p = 4p 5 × 5p = 25p

3 × 2p = 12p 6 × 5p = 15p

How many 3-leafed clovers are needed to make

the amounts of leaves?

7 × 3 = 6 leaves 10 × 3 = 30 leaves

8 × 3 = 9 leaves 11 × 3 = 21 leaves

9 × 3 = 15 leaves

How many clovers do you need for 30 leaves?

How many do you need for 300 leaves?

I am confident with multiplying by 2, 3 and 5.

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 Multiplying by 3 and
Copy and complete the number line.
Carry on the jumps to 30.

0 3 6 9 12 15

1 4×3= 3 × 3 = 24 5 ×3=9

2 6×3= 4 × 3 = 21 6 9×3=

Copy and complete the number line.

Carry on the jumps to 40.

0 4 8 12 16

7 × 4 = 20 9 9×4= 11 × 4 = 16

8 8×4= 10 × 4 = 28 12 6×4=

Look at the first six multiplications.

Not all of the 3s count is here. Can
you write the missing multiplications?

I am confident with multiplying by 3 and 4.

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 Measuring length
Use a ruler to measure the length of each insect.

1
2

5
3

Draw three more insects and measure

their lengths to the nearest centimetre.

I am confident with measuring length in cm.

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 Measure the lines with a ruler and write the
lengths in centimetres.

1 4

2 5

3 6

Estimate the length of each object.

Write down which measurement you
think is more likely to be correct.

7 10

2 cm or 30 cm 3 cm or 40 cm

8 11

5 cm or 50 cm 12 cm or 90 cm

9
15 cm or 70 cm

I am confident with measuring and estimating

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 Reading temperatures
Write the cooler temperature first, then write the
hotter temperature. Write a temperature that
comes between them.
°C °C °C °C
1 35 35 3 35 35
30 30 30 30
25 25 25 25
20 20 20 20
15 15 15 15
10 10 10 10
5 5 5 5
0 0 0 0

°C °C °C °C
2 35 35 4 35 35
30 30 30 30
25 25 25 25
20 20 20 20
15 15 15 15
10 10 10 10
5 5 5 5
0 0 0 0

Order the temperatures from coolest to hottest.

5 °C °C °C °C °C °C
40 40 40 40 40 40
35 35 35 35 35 35
30 30 30 30 30 30
25 25 25 25 25 25
20 20 20 20 20 20
15 15 15 15 15 15
10 10 10 10 10 10
5 5 5 5 5 5
0 0 0 0 0 0

What is the hottest temperature and the

coolest temperature on this page? Find a
temperature on this page that is in-between.

I am confident with reading and comparing

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 Write the temperatures in order from coolest
to hottest.

1 2
°C °C °C °C °C °C °C °C °C °C
35 35 35 35 35 35 35 35 35 35
30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30
25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25
20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15
10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Work out the difference between the day

temperature and the night temperature.

4 Paris Day Night 6 Delhi Day Night

°C °C °C °C
35 35 35 35
30 30 30 30
25 25 25 25
20 20 20 20
15 15 15 15
10 10 10 10
5 5 5 5
0 0 0 0

5 Rome Day Night 7 Glasgow Day Night

°C °C °C °C
35 35 35 35
30 30 30 30
25 25 25 25
20 20 20 20
15 15 15 15
10 10 10 10
5 5 5 5
0 0 0 0

What could the day and night

temperatures in London be if the
difference between them is 5 degrees?

I am confident with reading and comparing

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 Hundreds, tens and ones
Place-value cards

Write the addition sentences in full,

including the missing numbers.

100 + 30 + 4 = 1 34

1 100 + 30 + = 1 34
2 200 + 60 + 4 =

3 400 + + 7 = 48 7
4 + 70 + 5 = 275
5 500 + + 4 = 584
6 30 + 400 + 7 =

7 + + 600 = 642
8 + 400 + 7 = 427
9 + 1 + 300 = 37 1
10 + 1 + = 56 1

How many 3-digit numbers that are less

than 500 have a 0 in their 10s place?

I am confident with reading and writing hundreds,

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 Practising calculations
1 24 + 71 = 9 43 + = 68

2 3+8+7= 10 7+7+5=

3 5+9+5= 11 8+4+6=

4 34 + 25 = 12 ×3=9

5 84 – 52 = 13 86 – 45 =

6 68 – 45 = 14 84 – 71 =

7 4×3= 15 × 3 = 27

8 6×3= 16 × 3 = 21

17 Rani has four coins. Two are 5p coins and two

are 2p coin. How much money does she have?
18 On Ellie's birthday she brings in sweets for her
class. The bag holds 48 sweets. All 27 children in
the class get one sweet. How many sweets are
left in the pack?
19 There are 59 hippos. 36 are cooling off in the
water. How many are not in the water?
20 A pet shop has 3 guinea-pigs, 7 hamsters and
8 gerbils. How many animals are there in total?

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 Series Editor Author Team
Ruth Merttens Jennie Kerwin and Hilda Merttens

Published by Pearson Education Limited, Edinburgh Gate, Harlow, Essex, CM20 2JE.

www.pearsonschools.co.uk

Text © Pearson Education Limited 2014

Page design and layout by room9design
Original illustrations © Pearson Education Limited 2014
Illustrated by Andrew Rowland pp5, 8, 12, 14–16, 18–20, 22–24, 26–27; Matt Buckley pp9, 17, 25, 28–29
Photos of coins and notes © Pearson Education 2018, used under Crown Copyright
Cover design by Pearson Education Limited
Cover illustration and Abacus character artwork by Volker Beisler © Pearson Education Limited

Additional contributions by Hilary Koll and Steve Mills, CME Projects Ltd.

First published 2014

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Acknowledgements
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St Mary’s Catholic Primary School, Bodmin, St Andrew’s C of E Primary & Nursery School, Sutton-in-Ashfield,
Saint James’ C of E Primary School, Southampton and Harborne Primary School, Birmingham, for their invaluable help
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