Step-by-step practice Maths textbook

Chapter 5: Subtracting within 1000

  • Strand Subtraction
  • Level Level 3
  • Practice 89 questions with step-by-step solutions

Step-by-step practice: maths (Level 3). Small steps, repeated until fluent. Content: Subtract a 1-digit number, a 2-digit number and a 3-digit number, exchanging a ten or a hundred, Set subtractions out in columns with the hundreds, tens and ones lined up, Check a subtraction by adding the answer back to the number taken away, Find a missing number in a subtraction, such as 432 - ___ = 245, Solve one-step subtraction word problems.

Open Level 3 chapter

By the end of this chapter you will be able to

  • Subtract with exchange from the ones
  • Subtract 2-digit and 3-digit numbers with exchange
  • Check a subtraction by adding back
  • Find a missing number
  • Solve subtraction word problems

You should already know

  • Adding within 1000 with carrying (chapter 4)
  • Subtracting within 100 without exchange (Level 2, chapter 7)

Where this leads

  • Multiplication as repeated addition (chapter 6)

Lessons in this chapter

  1. 5.1 Subtracting a 1-digit number with exchange
  2. 5.2 Subtracting 2-digit numbers with exchange
  3. 5.3 Subtracting 3-digit numbers with exchange
  4. 5.4 Checking, missing numbers and word problems
  5. Summary and key words
  6. Check-up and practice test questions

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