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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Fact Family Find and Flip - Addition and Subtraction (Upper)
Addition and subtraction game cards demonstrating the relationship between fact families.
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Fact Family Find and Flip - Addition and Subtraction (Middle)
Addition and subtraction game cards demonstrating the relationship between fact families.
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Fact Family Find and Flip - Addition and Subtraction (Lower)
Addition and subtraction game cards demonstrating the relationship between fact families.
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Number Talks - Making Numbers Task Cards
Build number sense skills with this set of 20 task cards.
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Number Talks - Fluency to 20 Task Cards
Build number sense skills with this set of 24 task cards.
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Number Talks - Double Digit Subtraction Task Cards
Build number sense skills with this set of 24 task cards.
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Number Talks - Balancing Equations Task Cards
Build number sense skills with this set of 40 task cards.
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Maths Word Problem Cards - Division and Multiplication - Numbers 0-50
Twenty word problem cards for division and multiplication using numbers 0-50.
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Maths Word Problem Cards – Addition and Subtraction – Middle Primary
Twenty addition and subtraction word problem cards for middle primary.
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Addition and Subtraction Word Problem Task Cards (Numbers 1-50)
Use a range of addition and subtraction strategies to solve twenty word problems that contain numbers 1–50.
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Maths Activity Ideas for Parents - Addition and Subtraction
An information sheet for parents or carers to use when assisting children with addition and subtraction at home.
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Bar Model Poster Pack
The Bar Model is a teaching and learning strategy for mathematical problem solving which can be applied to all operations.
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Mixed Operations Word Problem Worksheets - Upper Primary
4 mixed operations word problem worksheets with answers.
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Maths Resource Packs for Parents - Addition and Subtraction
An extensive collection of resources for parents to help Key Stage 2 - Lower children with addition and subtraction.
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Addition and Subtraction Strategies PowerPoints - Teaching Resource Pack
A collection of Teaching Presentations that explore strategies for the computation of addition and subtraction.
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Active Learning Resource Pack
Twenty-two whole class or small group active games that encourage learning through a physical setting.
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Number Facts Board Games
A collection of board games to consolidate your students' knowledge of number facts.
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Exploring Subtraction Strategies Unit Plan
This Mathematics unit covers a range of mental computation strategies for subtraction.
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Exploring Subtraction Strategies – Assessment
An assessment task in which students will demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of subtraction strategies.
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Trade It!
A 60-minute lesson in which students learn how to trade when subtracting.
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Jump or Split
A 60-minute lesson in which students will learn the jump and skip strategies to subtract.
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Think 'Addition' to Subtract
A 60-minute lesson in which students apply their knowledge of addition and subtraction as inverse operations to solve equations with missing addends.
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Frolic with Fact Families
A 60-minute lesson in which students explore the relationship between the members of fact families.
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Aim for a Zero-Tail
A 60-minute lesson in which students learn the strategy of making ten to subtract.
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What Do You Know?
A 60-minute lesson in which students will revise strategies such as counting on, counting back, subtracting 10, and using known number facts.
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15 New and Exciting Place Value Activities!
Take a look at these 15 NEW resources to teach the concept of place value to your class. We have place value activities for any year level!
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The Bar Model Method | Teaching Mathematical Problem Solving
The Bar Model is an explicit strategy for mathematical problem solving. It can be applied to all operations, including multiplication and division.