Subtraction Teaching Resources
A collection of teaching resources to use when your students are learning to subtract numbers and apply subtraction strategies. Use the educational posters as visual stimulus in your primary classroom. Also provided are hands-on learning activities, resource packs for parents, games, worksheets and maths worksheet generator and maths mentals widgets. These widgets allow you to customise daily worksheets and quizzes for your students, using the number range of your choice. Use the pre and post tests to ascertain each student's prior knowledge before starting a subtraction or operations unit of work.
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Order of Operations Dice Game
A set of 6 order of operations dice activity mats.
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Bump! – Subtraction to 10 Game
A board game to practise subtraction facts to 10.
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Year 6 Numeracy Exit Tickets – Worksheets
23 Numeracy Exit Ticket activities for students to provide evidence of their learning progress.
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Year 4 Numeracy Exit Tickets – Worksheets
24 Numeracy Exit Ticket activities for students to provide evidence of their learning progress.
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Year 2 Numeracy Exit Tickets – Worksheets
35 Numeracy Exit Ticket activities for students to provide evidence of their learning progress.
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Addition and Subtraction Minute Maths Booklet
A maths warm-up booklet with ten pages of addition and subtraction questions.
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Year 1 Numeracy Exit Tickets – Worksheets
18 Numeracy Exit Ticket activities for students to provide evidence of their learning progress.
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Exploring Subtraction Strategies PowerPoint
A 41-slide teaching presentation to use when exploring subtraction strategies.
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Reception Numeracy Exit Tickets – Worksheets
18 Numeracy Exit Ticket activities for students to provide evidence of their learning progress.
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Subtraction Strategies - Assessment
A 2 page worksheet and answer sheet to use when assessing your students’ knowledge of subtraction strategies.
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Trading Mat
A working mat to explore trading/regrouping when subtracting.
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Trade It Board Game
A fun, hands-on board game to play in groups when learning to solve subtraction equations that require trading.
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Operation Domination Game
A fun game using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
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Missing Addend Avenue
A worksheet to use when learning the subtraction strategy of thinking addition in order to subtract.
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Linking Addition and Subtraction Worksheet
A worksheet designed to explore the relationship between addition and subtraction.
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Basic Fact Cards
A set of 72 basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division fact cards.
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Colouring by Larger Numbers - Operations
Colouring pages to be used when working with operations.
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Number Matching Puzzle - Subtraction
A hands-on game to play when learning about subtracting numbers.
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Moving Mathematics Activity - Fact Family Triangles
A fun mathematics activity that explores the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction.
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Maths Warm Ups PowerPoint - Year 6
A PowerPoint providing a series of warm up activities for Year 5 students across the curriculum.
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Number Worksheets - Addition and Subtraction - Year 2
8 addition and subtraction worksheets linked to the National Curriculum in England.
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Making Tens Subtraction Worksheet
A worksheet to use when learning the subtraction strategy of making tens using a number line.
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1-30 Subtraction Flashcards - Stars BW (Horizontal)
One hundred and one subtraction flashcards with numbers 0-30.
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1-30 Subtraction Flashcards - Stars (Horizontal)
One hundred and one subtraction flashcards with numbers 0-30.
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1-30 Subtraction Flashcards - Owls (Vertical)
One hundred and one subtraction flashcards with numbers 0-30.
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1-30 Subtraction Flashcards - Monsters (Vertical)
One hundred and one subtraction flashcards with numbers 0-30.
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Maths Warm-Ups Interactive PowerPoint – Year 4
A PowerPoint providing a series of warm up activities for Year 4 students across the Mathematics curriculum.
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Maths Warm-Ups Interactive PowerPoint – Year 3
A PowerPoint providing a series of warm up activities for Year 3 students across the Mathematics curriculum.
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Coloured Bears – Template
A template including 70 multi-coloured bears.
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Colouring by Numbers - Operations
Colouring pages to be used when working with operations.
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Drawing the Difference Cards
Use these cards when working with students on finding and calculating the difference between two amounts.
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'What is the Difference?' Cards
Cards for students to visually identify the differences.