Free Subtraction Worksheets 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:

• learning their subtraction facts to 20;
• subtracting 1, 10 or 100 from any 3 digit number;

For pencil and paper methods, children should be able to:

• subtract numbers with up to 3 digits;

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:

• subtract numbers up to 12;
• work out a subtraction sentence where the answer is given but one of the other numbers is missing.

All the sheets in this section will help your child to develop their speed and accuracy at subtracting.

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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:

• subtract with numbers up to 20;
• work out subtraction calculations where the answer is given but one of the other numbers is missing.

All the subtraction worksheets in this section will help your child to develop their speed and accuracy at subtracting.

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:

• subtract 1 or 10 to a range of 2 digit numbers;
• subtract 1, 10 or 100 to a range of 3 digit numbers.

Using these sheets will help to develop your child's understanding of place value to 1000.

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:

• add together numbers up to 12;
• work out addition sums where the total is given but one of the addends is missing.

All the sheets in this section will help your child to develop their speed and accuracy at adding.

The following sheets involve subtracting 3 digit numbers in columns.

Using these sheets will help your child to:

• subtract 2 and 3 digit numbers in columns;
• use the standard algorithm for column subtraction.

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.

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:

• learn their subtraction facts to 20;
• develop their strategic thinking skills.

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