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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Subtraction Without Regrouping - Borrowing

As you know each digit of a number in our number system has a different place value (ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc)

Always subtract within the same place value column when subtracting numbers.
Subtraction is to find the difference.

Example:

85 - 54 = ?

Step 1

Show the kids that the problem has four columns: a ones column and a tens column.

Tens Ones

Step 2

Place the number to be subtracted below the first number, so that the tens and ones places are lined up as shown in step 3.

Draw a line under the bottom number.

Step 3

Write the problem in the columns


Tens Ones
8 5
- 5 4

Step 4

First, subtract the ones


Tens Ones
8 5

- 5 4

_____________

1


Next, subtract the tens


Tens Ones

8 5
- 5 4
_____________
3

Answer : 85 - 54 = 31



In this teaching, I am sure now you can get the answer to the problem of 85 – 54 with this two digit subtraction without borrowing which is 31 with absolutely no problem.


Subtraction Without Regrouping

In subtracting one number from another, arrange the numbers according to the place values and carry out the operation column by column from right to left.

When two or more numbers are to be subtracted successively. It must be carried out in steps subtracting two numbers at a time.

There are few steps for teaching kids subtraction without regrouping within 1000.
1. First shows how to subtract using a place value chart. The following number sentence is given:
849 − 32 = ?

2. Rewrite the number sentence in a place value chart:




3. Complete the number sentence


849 - 32 = 817


What is subtraction?

Subtraction is one of the four basic arithmetic operations; it is the inverse of addition, meaning that if we start with any number and add any number and then subtract the same number we added, we return to the number we started with.

Subtraction is denoted by a minus sign in infix notation.

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