Subtraction in Year 5 (age 9-10)

Tricky set of in-out tables to complete. Decide whether to add or subtract.

Time for something different: true or false?

Add twenty and take one is much quicker than trying to add nineteen. But not always!

In these questions, you are told one fact about a sum. Write down three others without doing any more calculating.

Given one fact helps with working out similar facts.

Adding and subtracting numbers that cross the thousands boundary: often ?counting on? is the best method.

Subtract multiples of one hundred by counting back.

Subtract multiples of one thousand by counting back.

Subtract multiples of ten thousand by counting back.

Subtracting thousands mentally.

Subtracting hundreds or thousands mentally.

Helping to decide whether it is best to work out the answer in your head or on paper.

Pencil and paper method for subtracting crossing the tens boundary.

Be careful with these subtraction questions when setting them out on paper.

Achieve success with those tricky subtractions with zeros in!

Remember to keep the decimal point in line when practising these subtraction of money questions.

Find the missing digits.

More work on missing digits, using 4-digit numbers.

More written subtraction of large numbers.

This is about as hard as it gets - a very tricky set of questions.

The formal written method of subtraction with 5-digit numbers, using squared paper.

The formal written method of subtraction using 5-digit numbers (money and decimals).

Write the missing digits to make the subtractions correct.

Subtracting decimals using the standard written method.

Written subtraction of decimals with a different number of decimal places.

Using bar models to help when working with 5-digit numbers.

Using part whole models to help with multi-step problems. Not just subtraction needed!

Use the numbers in the octagon to create and answer subtraction questions using multiples of 10 and decimals.

A set of word problems which can all be answered by using the standard method of subtraction.

Word problems which require subtracting from numbers with-4 digits or more.

Subtraction problems using the written method.

More written subtraction problems using large numbers.

Subtracting from large numbers using the standard written method.

A quick look at methods of written subtraction.