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Fast-Paced Arithmetic Practice Built for 2nd Grade Learners

Help 2nd graders build arithmetic speed and confidence through quick multiplayer rounds made for early elementary math practice.

MathIt turns early arithmetic practice into a fun head-to-head challenge made for 2nd graders who are learning to add and subtract with confidence. Short, real-time rounds keep 7- and 8-year-olds focused while they solve age-appropriate problems, race for points, and get more comfortable with core number skills. It’s an easy way for friends, siblings, or classmates to practice essential 2nd grade arithmetic together.

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Features

Everything you need to make math practice stick

100% Free to Play

All core features are free. Multiplayer battles, difficulty levels, leaderboards, and 20 languages included.

Real-Time Multiplayer

Compete with 2-5 players simultaneously in real-time math battles. Every millisecond counts!

3 Difficulty Levels

Easy, Medium, and Hard modes — from basic addition to mixed operations with multiplication and division.

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Try it now — 60-second drill

Answer as many as you can in 60 seconds. No sign-up — this is the same practice you get in the MathIt app.

Sample problems

50 − 4 = ? Show answer
46
29 + 3 = ? Show answer
32
8 − 5 = ? Show answer
3
38 − 15 = ? Show answer
23
48 + 2 = ? Show answer
50
42 + 13 = ? Show answer
55

Skills you’ll practice

Addition Subtraction Mental Math

Mixed arithmetic in 2nd grade

Early mental math is less about arithmetic than about number sense — knowing that 7 and 3 make 10, that 20 is two tens, that adding and subtracting undo each other. Those relationships are what let a child calculate rather than count, and they are built by frequent short practice rather than by longer sessions.

Second grade is the written-method year. Column addition and subtraction arrive, then regrouping, and with them the first arithmetic that has a procedure to follow rather than a fact to recall. Children who still lack instant facts within 20 find this year disproportionately hard, because they are running a procedure and reconstructing facts at the same time.

2nd graders are expected to mix addition and subtraction within 100 and choose the right operation for a problem; after that comes mixed addition and subtraction within 100.

Watch for reading the sign too quickly and adding when the problem says subtract.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is mixed practice better than practising one operation at a time?
Both have a use. Practising one operation builds the facts; mixing them builds the habit of reading the problem before answering, which is what breaks down in word problems and on tests. Use single-operation practice to fix a gap and mixed practice to keep it.
What mixed arithmetic should a 2nd grader know?
Enough to mix addition and subtraction within 100 and choose the right operation for a problem.
Why does my 2nd grader keep getting mixed arithmetic wrong?
Most often: reading the sign too quickly and adding when the problem says subtract.

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