Year 2 maths, English and science practice for NSW
Learnest gives your Year 2 child about fifteen minutes of maths, English and science a day, pitched at the skill they are on, and tells you that night which skill is slipping.
A$10 a month for one child, A$5 for each extra child.
Ten questions, marked as soon as you finish. No sign-up.
Parent guides: times tables, learning to read, early maths and handwriting.
Free spelling practice: the Year 2 words, read aloud, grouped by pattern.
What your child works on in Year 2
- Maths
- Numbers to 1000, adding and subtracting two-digit numbers, rounding to the nearest ten and hundred, arrays, sharing and grouping, halves, quarters and eighths, metres and centimetres, quarter past and quarter to, picture graphs and chance.
- English
- Reading longer words, prefixes and suffixes, spelling rules, words that sound the same, kinds of words, joining sentences, putting a paragraph in order, and working out what a story does not say.
- Science
- Living things and life cycles, how our senses work, pushes and pulls, light and shadows, how sounds are made, magnets, weather, seasons and rocks, day and night, and the steps that control a robot.
Years 1 and 2 share Stage 1 of the NSW syllabus, so Learnest works from one list of Stage 1 skills. The first day in each subject is a check, so a Year 2 child who is ready starts on the later skills. A Hear it button reads maths and science questions aloud.
Free tool: a times tables test your child can take now, with a grid of the facts to practise next.
Sample questions
Questions from Learnest's own Stage 1 question bank. Try each one, then open the worked answer.
Or hand the device over: let your child try seven questions on the real screens, about five minutes, no sign-up.
Pick an answer to check it. Try a wrong one too: you see the mistake that usually leads to it.
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Maths: add two-digit numbers
Omar has 56 stamps. Omar gets 27 more stamps. How many stamps does Omar have now?
Your child types the answer.
See the worked answer
Answer: 83
The story joins two groups, so add them: tens first, then ones.
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Maths: calendars
20 August is how many days after 4 August?
Your child types the answer.
See the worked answer
Answer: 16
Count on from the first date to the second date, one day at a time.
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English: joining words for time
Pick the time word that fits. We will stay at the park ___ it gets dark.
- Option A: until
- Option B: after
- Option C: because
- Option D: so
See the worked answer
Answer: A, until
Until tells you we stay right up to the time it gets dark.
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Science: life cycles
A hen's egg is kept warm. After about three weeks, what happens?
- Option A: a chick hatches
- Option B: a tadpole hatches
- Option C: a hen hatches
- Option D: the egg stays the same forever
See the worked answer
Answer: A, a chick hatches
A chick grows inside a warm egg and hatches after about three weeks.
Questions parents ask
How long does Learnest take each day in Year 2?
About fifteen minutes. Each session starts with reviews, then new work at your child's level. In Settings you can make a child's sessions shorter or longer.
What do I get each night?
An email each school night naming the skill that slipped, at 9:30 pm or a time you pick, and a weekly email with the week and a note for the tutor. Your dashboard shows each child's day, their gaps and whether a fix has held.
Does it follow the NSW syllabus for Year 2?
Yes. Learnest works from the Stage 1 maths, English and science skills of the NSW syllabus. The first day in each subject is a check that finds your child's level, and the app plans each day from their answers.
What does it cost?
A$10 a month for one child and A$5 a month for each extra child. It starts with 14 days free: you add a card on Stripe's page and pay A$0 today. Cancel online before day 14 and you pay nothing.
Who runs Learnest?
Learnest is a small Australian business run by a sole trader, ABN 82 503 370 076. Email hello@learnest.com.au with any question about it.
About fifteen minutes a day, planned for your child.
Learnest finds the level, teaches the gap and tells you that night which skill is slipping.
Learnest is not affiliated with ACARA, NESA, the NSW Department of Education or the Australian Maths Trust. Every question on this page is Learnest's own, written for practice. None comes from a past paper.