Body Parts Math Word Problems (Grade 2)

About this worksheet

Six word problems that count real body parts: hands at an art table, fingers held up and folded down, toes in the sand, a spider's legs plus three children's legs, noses and ears together, and lost baby teeth to compare. They mix addition, subtraction and repeated addition for second grade. Answer key on page 2. Second graders use it to spell body words without help and to start looking at what is inside the body. Underline the question and circle the numbers before solving.

On this sheet

the answer. There are 7 children at the art table. Each child has 2 hands. How many hands are at the table? Ava holds up 10 fingers. She folds down 4 of them. How many fingers are still up? Noah, Zoe and Sam take off their shoes at the beach. How many toes are in the sand? A spider has 8 legs. A child has 2 legs. How many legs do one spider and 3 children have in all? Each child has 1 nose and 2 ears.

Tips for using it

• Check each answer by adding it back to the number taken away.
• Count back on your fingers or the number line for the hardest facts.
• Have your child say each fact out loud while writing the answer.
• Before any worksheet, play "touch your...": call out a body part and have kids touch it on themselves. The labels stick much faster after the body has done it.

Printing tips

Download the PDF and print at 100% (or “fit to page” on A4). Page 1 is the worksheet and page 2 is the answer key with the answers in red; print just page 1 if you want to keep the answers for checking. Free for personal, family and classroom use.