Today is our day we do some work on our subtraction skills.
Warm Up:
Go on a number hunt around the house and find as many numbers as you can – when you find a number, take away 1 from it e.g. if you find the number 16, take away 1 and your answer is 15
Remember – when you take away 1 you just go to the number before
What is the biggest number you can find? I managed to find the number 100 in a book so I took 1 away and wrote down 99. Can you beat me and find an even bigger number?
Main Activity:
Primary 1 Worksheet
Write down your subtraction sums in your jotter and then answer them
If you find it easier, you can draw the pictures to help you solve each problem – cross out the amount to take away, then count how many are left
Primary 2 Worksheet
Lots of words tell you to take away e.g. subtract, minus, the difference between, less than, how many are left?
Can you solve these tricky subtraction problems? You need to to really think about what the question is asking you to do.
Game to Support Learning:
Practice your subtraction skills with this game – click here!
Extra Challenge:
Sing along with this video all about subtraction – it really made me laugh!
Today is our day we do some work on our subtraction skills. 
