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🎵 Grade 2 Lesson 16: Adding Within 1000 — Add Within 1000 (2.NBT.B.7) mess around all you want, nothing here saves
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Grade 2, Lesson 16: Adding Within 1000

Math skill: Add Within 1000 (2.NBT.B.7)

How the beat teaches it: Every slot adds two three-digit numbers — the total is too big for one row, so build it across hundreds, tens, and ones.

This is lesson 16 of 24 in RockBlocks Math, Grade 2, a free course where every lesson turns a math idea into something you can count, hear, and play. The previous lesson, Skip Counting by 100s,” covered counting Patterns (2.NBT.A.2). Next is Lesson 17, Subtracting Within 1000.”

Every slot above (A, B, C, D) is its own question, and it’s a real, blank RockBlocks beat the whole time — the same drag-and-drop tiles, kit, tempo, sheet music, and drummer view as anywhere else on the site. Tap ❓ Questionin the corner to read the current slot’s problem, build your answer right in the grid, then tap ✓ Check Answerto grade it. Once you’re done, keep going: expand the beat, drop it into a Stack, or save a copy to your own page — nothing here overwrites the lesson itself, so every visitor still starts from the same blank slots.