Subtraction word problems – up to two digits
Learn with an example
🗼 SweetyPie Baking Company had 10 eggs. Then employees used 9 eggs to make vanilla custard. How many eggs are left?
- Subtract the number of eggs used to make vanilla custard from the total number of eggs.
- Subtract:
- 10 – 9 = ___
- You can count backwards to subtract. Start from 10 and count back 9.
- 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
- 10 – 9 = 1
- The difference is 1. There is 1 egg left.
🗼 Maddie wants to paint her house blue. She needs 56 litres of blue paint and already has 4 litres. How many more litres of blue paint does she need?
- Subtract the amount of paint she has from the amount of paint she needs.
- Subtract:
- 56 – 4 =___
- You can count backwards to subtract. Start from 56 and count back 4.
- 56, 55, 54, 53, 52
- 56 – 4 = 52
- The difference is 52. Maddie needs 52 more litres of blue paint.
🗼 A banana farm received a total of 29 millimetres of rain in March and April. If 3 millimetres of rain fell on the farm in March, how many millimetres of rain fell on the farm in April?
- Subtract the amount of rainfall in March from the total amount of rainfall.
- Subtract:
- 29 – 3 = ___
- You can count backwards to subtract. Start from 29 and count back 3.
- 29, 28, 27, 26
- 29 – 3 = 26
- The difference is 26. In April, 26 millimetres of rain fell on the farm.
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