Review using column subtraction to subtract without regrouping | Maths

Starter quiz

Which number is the minuend in this part-part-whole model?
- '43' ✓
Which number is the subtrahend in this column subtraction?
- '33' ✓
What is the name of the part that is circled in the column subtraction?
- minuend ✓
- subtrahend
- difference
Which number is the subtrahend in the equation, 67 − 45 = 22?
- '45' ✓
Look at this column subtraction. Match up the numbers with the correct name.
- 467
  
  ⇔
  
  minuend ✓
- 122
  
  ⇔
  
  subtrahend ✓
- 345
  
  ⇔
  
  difference ✓
What is the missing minuend in the column subtraction?
- '45' ✓

Exit quiz

Complete the column subtraction by finding the difference.
- '32' ✓
Which number is the difference in this column subtraction?
- '512' ✓
Find the missing tens digit in the column subtraction.
- '7' ✓
Find the missing tens digit.
- '5' ✓
Which two numbers could be used to make this column subtraction correct?
- 79
- 43 ✓
- 22
- 65 ✓
Which two numbers could be used to make this column subtraction correct?
- 777 ✓
- 545
- 656 ✓
- 333

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Lesson Details

Key learning points

Start by subtracting the number with the smallest place value.
The minuend appears first in a column subtraction.
The subtrahend is written underneath the minuend.
Use zero to show where there are no ones, tens or hundreds represented.

Common misconception

Pupils may write the minuend and subtrahend the wrong way around.

Model setting out column subtraction, starting with the minuend. This can be taught alongside manipulatives such as Base 10 blocks so that pupils understand that the minuend is the number that we start with.

Keywords

Minuend - The minuend is the number being subtracted from.
Subtrahend - A subtrahend is a number subtracted from another.
Column subtraction - Column subtraction is a way of subtracting numbers by writing a number below another.