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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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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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.
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BODMAS Poster
A poster highlighting the acronym for BODMAS.
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Christmas Code Cracker Whole Class Game
A whole class game that consolidates your students’ knowledge with Christmas fun!
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Addition and Subtraction Regrouping
An addition and a subtraction poster that break down the steps to use regrouping to find a solution.
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Bobby's Board Games – Maths Game Challenge
Challenge students to design and make a maths board game.
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Lady Beetle Adding Activity
A fun and simple adding activity to consolidate simple addition.
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Jump Strategy Subtraction Game
A fun and challenging game to use when learning how to use the jump strategy to solve subtraction problems.
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Subtraction Bingo - Numbers 0-60
32 different bingo cards using subtraction and numbers from 0-60.
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Five Wonders Theme Park: Induction Booklet – Project
A project where students study the Five Wonders Theme Park stimulus poster to understand and use real world learning skills.
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The Mathematical Easter Egg Hunt – Whole Class Game
A differentiated whole class Easter egg hunt.
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Subtraction by Regrouping Poster
A poster displaying subtraction by regrouping.
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Number Ladders
Blank number ladders with space for sums.
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Basic Subtraction Strategies Posters
A set of four posters with clear examples of subtraction strategies.
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Maths Mazes (Addition and Subtraction)
A set of puzzling mazes that require addition and subtraction skills to solve.
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Roll and Colour Worksheet - One More, One Less
An interactive worksheet to practise finding the number that is 1 more and 1 less than a given number.
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Dinosaur Maths - Addition & Subtraction - V2
Solve the addition and subtraction sums to colour in the dinosaur.
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Dinosaur Maths - Addition & Subtraction - V1
Solve the addition and subtraction sums to colour in the dinosaur.
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Simple Addition and Subtraction Questions
A sheet of simple addition and subtraction questions.
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Subtraction Made Easy Poster
Subtraction using the count back strategy.
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Operations of Four Maths Machine Worksheet
A worksheet to use when practising addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
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Polygon Puzzles - Subtraction
A matching game that helps students to develop their subtraction skills.
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Addition and Subtraction Fact Families PowerPoint
A 19 page editable PowerPoint to use in the classroom when introducing addition and subtraction fact families.
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Number Talks - Decimal Task Cards
Build number sense skills with this set of 26 task cards.
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Numeracy Working Mats
Numeracy working mats to explore place value, operations and fractions.
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Parts of a Number Sentence (Addition and Subtraction) Posters
Two posters to display in the classroom explaining the elements of addition and subtraction number sentences.
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Fact Family Rocket Blast Off (Blank)
16 blank cards and a rocket game mat to demonstrate an understanding of addition and subtraction fact families.