Grade 1–3Curriculum · Maths: number sense
Subtraction Worksheets — Column Subtraction with Answers
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Column subtraction · 8-10 years
Name: ____________________2.Facts: A road is 47 m long. 17 m have been painted. Question: How many metres are left to paint? Answer with the correct unit.
4.A shop had 69 bottles of juice. After a week 22 were sold. How many bottles remain?
6.A stadium holds 68 people. 60 tickets have been sold. How many seats are still free?
8.A road is 36 m long. 35 m have been painted. How many metres are left to paint? Answer with the correct unit.
10.Facts: A road is 59 m long. 39 m have been painted. Question: How many metres are left to paint? Answer with the correct unit.
12.Facts: Jo saved 35 kr and spent 19 kr on a game. Question: How much money is left?
14.A shop had 54 bottles of juice. After a week 48 were sold. How many bottles remain?
16.A shop had 60 bottles of juice. After a week 47 were sold. How many bottles remain?
18.Facts: A shop had 95 bottles of juice. After a week 41 were sold. Question: How many bottles remain?
20.Mika saved 82 kr and spent 77 kr on a game. How much money is left?
Answer key
- 1. 6
- 2. 30 m
- 3. 5
- 4. 47 bottles
- 5. 10
- 6. 8 seats
- 7. 77
- 8. 1 m
- 9. 44
- 10. 20 m
- 11. 75
- 12. 16 kr
- 13. 61
- 14. 6 bottles
- 15. 67
- 16. 13 bottles
- 17. 9
- 18. 54 bottles
- 19. 66
- 20. 5 kr
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Column subtraction is one of the most important written methods. The easier level avoids borrowing so pupils can learn to line up digits. Harder levels add borrowing across one or several places, including across zeros. Word problems ask how much money is left or how many pages remain. The answer key is calculated by the website, so it always matches the tasks. No sign-up is needed and no personal data is collected.
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- Learning to line up digits
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- Difference word problems
- Homework
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