Second Grade is built on the national frameworks that most state standards are based on or closely resemble: the Common Core State Standards for math and English language arts, the national K-12 science framework (the Next Generation Science Standards*), and the C3 Framework for social studies. Every lesson lists the standard it teaches.
2026 Montana Mathematics Content Standards
Based on the Common Core, with the state's own changesAdopted 2025
In effect July 1, 2026. Keeps Common Core domains (the document includes a Common Core correspondence appendix) and adds Indian Education for All context to several standards.
Official standards (opens in a new tab)Montana K-12 Content Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy
Uses the Common Core State StandardsAdopted 2011
The 2011 Common Core-based standards stay in effect until the newly adopted 2027 Montana ELA and Literacy standards take effect in July 2027.
Official standards (opens in a new tab)K-12 Montana Science Content Standards
Based on the national science framework, with the state's own changesAdopted 2016
Three-dimensional standards aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards*; the state publishes a side-by-side comparison with them.
Official standards (opens in a new tab)Montana Content Standards for Social Studies
The state's own standards, informed by the C3 Framework
Revised 2020-21, with Indian Education for All built in. Grade 2 covers community helpers and government (including tribal communities), goods and services, maps, and how people lived in the past. OPI's revision documents refer to the C3 Framework as used to create the standards.
Official standards (opens in a new tab)Math: word problems and data standards should use cultural context about Montana Indigenous Peoples and local communities (MT.2.OA.1, MT.2.MD.5, MT.2.MD.9, MT.2.MD.10).
Add at homeOnce a week, rewrite 2 of the week's math word problems or survey questions using facts about a Montana tribe or your community from a trusted source, such as the Montana Office of Public Instruction's Indian Education materials.
Social studies: know that there are twelve distinct tribes in Montana whose people contribute to modern life (SS.H.2.2).
Partly coveredWeek 21 teaches Native nations that live today, and the My State, Part 2 add-on asks which nations live in your state. Add 15 minutes to list Montana's twelve tribes and learn one way people from one tribe contribute to life today.
Social studies: identify American Indian reservations on maps and use American Indian oral histories as historical sources (SS.G.2.1, SS.H.2.3).
Partly coveredWeek 21 labels nations on a map. Add 15 minutes to find Montana's reservations on a state map, and listen to or read one oral history from a tribal or library source, talking about how it teaches about the past.
Verified: 2026-09-30. Standards change; always check your state's official page.