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Subtracting Tens

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Subtraction

Counting in tens, a way of seeing built up on the adding side, is put to work here in the direction of taking away. One multiple of ten is subtracted from another, and the answer is a multiple of ten as well. Once the recounting touch is in hand from Calculation, the same view carries through Fill in the Blank and Word Problems.

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Writing 3 for 70 - 40, with the zero of the ones place gone, leads the field. Saying aloud how many tens are left before writing prevents it. Because the box in Fill in the Blank does not stand where the answer goes, the count of tens has to be traced backwards, and some children stall there.

Two lessons complete the unit. The run of raising the place value while leaving the view of number alone pauses here, and from 2-Digit ± 1-Digit onward tens and ones turn up together inside one equation.

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Problems and answers on this worksheet

These are the problems in “Adding and Subtracting Tens”, shown with their answers.

  1. (1)On the power line, 70 birds were perched. A sound startled them and 20 flew away. How many are left? Answer □

    Answer: 50birds

  2. (2)Grace picked 90 strawberries in the field. The family ate 60. How many are left? Answer □

    Answer: 30strawberries

  3. (3)At the festival, there were 60 candies. You handed out 20 to the children. How many are left? Answer □

    Answer: 40candies

  4. (4)At the stationery corner in school, there are 60 pencils. 30 were used in class. How many are left? Answer □

    Answer: 30pencils

  5. (5)Among the sports day decorations, there were 80 balloons. 30 flew up into the sky. How many are left? Answer □

    Answer: 50balloons

  6. (6)At snack time, there were 90 cookies. The whole class ate 40. How many are left? Answer □

    Answer: 50cookies

What to do next

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