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Basic horizontal subtraction
Vertical subtraction (easy)
Encouraging the use of place value
Counting on / looking for patterns
Vertical subtraction (difficult)
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Basic horizontal subtraction:
Subtraction to 5
Subtraction to 10
Subtraction to 20
Subtraction to 100
Longer subtraction problems to 20 (eg. 20 - 5 - 3 - 2 - 5 = )
Longer subtraction problems to 100 (eg. 100 - 12 - 22 - 15 = )
Encouraging counting on / looking for patterns in calculations:
Subtracting 1 from any number below 20
Subtracting lots of 1’s from any number below 20
Subtracting 2 from any number below 30
Subtracting lots of 2’s from any number below 30
Subtracting 9 from any number below 100
Subtracting lots of 9’s from any number below 100
Subtracting 10 from any number below 100
Subtracting lots of 10’s from any number below 100
Subtracting 11 from any number below 100
Subtracting lots of 11’s from any number below 100
Subtracting 100 from any number below 1500
Subtracting lots of 100’s from any number below 1500
Encouraging the use of place value:
Subtracting multiples of 10 (eg. 50 - 20 = )
Subtracting lots of multiples of 10
Subtracting multiples of 100 (eg. 500 - 200 = )
Subtracting lots of multiples of 100
Subtracting multiples of 1000 (eg. 5000 - 2000 = )
Subtracting lots of multiples of 1000
Vertical subtraction of quantities with the same number of digits (eg. 875 - 221 - 305)
Vertical / formal subtraction of two digit numbers (no carrying)
Vertical / format subtraction of two digit numbers
Vertical / formal subtraction of three digit numbers (no carrying)
Vertical / formal subtraction of three digit numbers
Vertical / formal subtraction of four digit numbers (no carrying)
Vertical / formal subtraction of four digit numbers
Vertical subtraction of quantities with mixed numbers of digits (eg. 1250 - 320 - 1)
Vertical / formal subtraction to 100 (no carrying)
Vertical / formal subtraction of lots of numbers to 100 (no carrying)
Vertical / formal subtraction to 100
Verrtical / formal subtraction to 1000 (no carrying)
Vertical / formal subtraction of lots of numbers to 1000 (no carrying)
Vertical / formal subtraction to 1000
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