Free Mental Maths Olympiad Class 2 Study Material

Preparation Material of CREST Mental Maths Olympiad (CMMO) for Class 2

Here is the Class 2 study material for the CREST Mental Maths Olympiad (CMMO), arranged under the same five syllabus units your child met in Class 1. Use it as a revision map: each link opens a free CREST topic page that can be read with your child or, more and more, by your child alone.

What's new in Class 2

The official Class 2 syllabus is the same as Class 1: Number and Number Names, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication and Division, Measurement, and Geometry. The topics below cover almost the same ground, with numbers up to 100 and tables from 2 to 10. The paper pattern does not change either.

What does change is how the exam is taken. From Class 2 the child sits the CMMO alone. CREST's FAQs list someone sitting with the child as a reason for disqualification for every class above Class 1.

Class 2 paper at a glance

• 60 questions in 60 minutes, 80 marks in total.
• Basique section: 40 questions, 1 mark each. Avance section: 20 questions, 2 marks each.
• Level 1 and Level 2 follow the same pattern.
• No parent or teacher beside the child; the webcam stays on.

How to use this guide in Class 2

• Go through the five groups and mark the topics your child still pauses on. Those are the ones to revisit, since nothing on the list is new.
• Practise reading questions independently. Many topics, such as the number line, counting cubes and reading a clock, are picture based, so let your child explain each picture in their own words.
• Ask the tables from 2 to 10 out of order, such as 7 x 6 and then 3 x 9, so your child recalls each fact directly instead of reciting the whole table.
• Do the free Class 2 Mental Maths worksheets without help, then sit the Class 2 CMMO sample paper in one go to get used to a full hour working alone.

Number and Number Names

1. Counting objects up to 20 in pictorial form & Pictorial representation using cubes (numbers up to 100)
2. Number names (numbers less than 100)
3. Step counting of 2, 3, 5 and 10 starting from any number (numbers up to 100)
4. Representation in tens and ones up to 100
5. Understand the use of words before, after, successor, predecessor, more than, less than (numbers up to 100)
6. Arranging the given numbers in ascending and descending order (numbers up to 100)
7. Identify and usage of signs >, < and = (numbers up to 100)
8. Abacus representation (numbers up to 100)
9. Use of place value (numbers up to 100)

Addition and Subtraction

1. Solve problems on number bonds (numbers less than 100)
2. Pictorial representation of addition and subtraction using number line
3. Three digit addition (Problems on pictorial representation, missing numbers, carry over & commutative property of addition on numbers less than 100)
4. Three digit subtraction (Problems on pictorial representation, missing numbers & borrowing on numbers less than 100)

Multiplication and Division

1. Use of multiplication as repeated addition
2. Use of multiplication tables to solve mathematical statements on multiplication (Tables from 2 to 10)
3. Understanding division using grouping and pictorial representation
4. Identify missing number in series - identifying if a certain number is multiples of 2, 3, 5 and 10
5. Concept of half and one-half

Measurement

1. Conversion of Unit of Measurement - (Length, Weight, Capacity, Time)
2. Money
3. Reading measurement in pictorial problems: Using a ruler, weighing balance, graduated container and clock

Geometry

1. Identification of horizontal, vertical and curved lines in a given figure
2. Pattern recognition in a shapes series and identifying the next shape in the series
3. Identify and count the number of a particular 2-D shape in a figure (circle, triangle, rectangle and square, etc.)
4. Identify 3-D shapes (cuboid, cube, cone, sphere, cylinder, etc.)