Add two 2-digit numbers in columns (with regrouping) Worksheets

These multi-digit addition worksheets are designed for 2nd Grade students (Ages 7-8). Print any one in the set for targeted practice, or download them together as a packet.

Yes. These worksheets work for homeschool, classroom, and tutoring. Use them as a morning warm-up, an independent center activity, or a fast-finisher task.

Second graders should fluently add within 20 (CCSS 2.OA.B.2) and add within 100 using strategies based on place value and properties of operations (2.NBT.B.5). They also begin adding within 1,000 using models and drawings (2.NBT.B.7).

Regrouping (carrying) is typically introduced mid-year in second grade when students add two-digit numbers that sum to more than 9 in the ones place. Understanding place value is a prerequisite. Use base-ten block worksheets before transitioning to the standard algorithm.

By the end of second grade, students should know all addition facts within 20 from memory (CCSS 2.OA.B.2). That is 100 facts (0+0 through 9+9, plus the commutative pairs). Daily timed practice with addition fact worksheets helps build automaticity.