How to Improve Your Subtraction Skills
When doing math, the simplest of concepts can confuse you. While addition and subtraction happen to be the backbone of the subject, you should ensure your grip on the concepts are the strongest. Consider the tips below and strengthen your grip on the concepts of subtraction. Split Strategy - If you are teaching the early year to subtract, you can use the split strategy. The technique is the easiest of all. In split strategy, you split a value into smaller place values. This helps simplify complex problems, and subtracting a value from others get easier. Consider this example, for instance: 164 - 58 = _________ ( When solving numbers like these, have your student split the second number into two values – 50 and 8. Now ask them to count back in 10s, proceed from 164 to 114, and subtract 8 to get your required answer, i.e., 106. Decomposing Technique - When decomposing, you'll have your student expand the two numbers, using the concept of places values. They will then processed by adding the two parts together.
Four and Two or More Digits Differences
A fixed series of practice worksheets that removed two digit values from thousand values.
