Welcome to the 2nd Grade Math Salamanders Free Subtraction Worksheets.
Here you will find our selection of free subtraction sheets to help your child learn their subtraction facts up to 12.
Subtraction is a process which most children learn quite naturally as soon as they learn to start counting. During kindergarten and first grade, it is really important for kids to have the chance to work practically with their math.
An example might be that a child has 10 sweets. They give 3 to their teddy. How many do they have left? What if they gave another to their teddy? What if their teddy had 8 sweets, how many would be left for them?
Later on, when children are confident Subtracting practically, they can progress on to number lines or counting back in their heads. When children have understood this, they can begin to learn their Subtraction facts and progress on to column Subtraction.
During Second Grade, children should be learning the following mental subtraction skills:
For pencil and paper methods, children should be able to:
Subtraction Facts to 12
The following worksheets involve learning your subtraction facts to 12.
The sheets in this section are for children at the beginning of 2nd grade. They involve the skill of subtracting numbers up to 12.
Most of the sheets also include a challenge or a key question to help your child understand how subtraction works and to extend learning and thinking.
An answer sheet is available for each worksheet provided.
The worksheets in this section are carefully graded, allowing you to introduce concepts at an easier level before introducing harder work.
Using the sheets in this section will help your child to:
All the sheets in this section will help your child to develop their speed and accuracy at subtracting.
Free Subtraction Worksheets with numbers to 12
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Subtraction Facts to 20
The following webpages involve learning subtraction facts to 20.
The sheets in this section are for children who are working competently at a 2nd grade level. They involve the skill of subtracting with numbers up to 20.
Using the sheets in this section will help your child to:
All the subtraction worksheets in this section will help your child to develop their speed and accuracy at subtracting.
Subtracting 1, 10 and 100
This section involves using place value and subtraction to take away either 1, 10 or 100 from any 2 or 3 digit number.
This skill is very important to establish at this grade, as it is a foundation building block from which many other math skills are built.
Using these sheets will help your child to:
Using these sheets will help to develop your child's understanding of place value to 1000.
Addition Facts to 12+12
The following webpages involve learning addition facts to 12+12.
The sheets in this section are for children at the beginning of 2nd grade. They involve the skill of adding numbers up to 12+12.
Using the sheets in this section will help your child to:
All the sheets in this section will help your child to develop their speed and accuracy at adding.
Column Subtraction 2nd Grade
The following sheets involve subtracting 3 digit numbers in columns.
Using these sheets will help your child to:
All these sheets will help your child understand how to subtract numbers in columns.
We have created a page of 2nd grade subtraction word problems for your child to enjoy!
There are a range of word problems of different levels of difficulty.
An answer sheet is provided for each problem, and also some working out space.
Subtraction Games
If you are looking for some great subtraction games to support your child's learning, then look no further.
There are a wide selection of subtraction games on the page below, which will develop your child's thinking and reasoning skills as well as their subtraction fact knowledge.
Using these games will help you child to:
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Here is the grading guide for our worksheets.
White
White is the easiest level for children at their early stages in 2nd grade.
Orange
Orange - this is the medium level of difficulty for children who are becoming more confident and working at the expected level in 2nd grade.
Purple
Purple - this is the hardest level for children who are nearly ready for 3rd grade math, or need that extra challenge.
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