Teaching Two Digit Subtraction Without Borrowing

This subtraction teaching will help you to understand better of teaching two digit subtraction without borrowing. This subtraction printable was designed for teaching your kids’ math in better understanding of subtraction with regrouping and subtraction borrowing. As you know each digit of a number in our number system has a different place value (ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc) Always subtract within the same place value column when subtracting numbers. Subtraction is to find the difference.    Example:         8 5 - 5 4

Step 1   Show the kids that the problem has four columns: a ones column and a tens column.   Tens Ones   Step 2   Place the number to be subtracted below the first number, so that the tens and ones places are lined up as shown in step 3.   Draw a line under the bottom number.   Step 3   Write the problem in the columns     Tens Ones _ 8 5   5 4     Step 4   First, subtract the ones      Tens Ones _ 8 5   5 4     1      Next, subtract the tens     Tens Ones   3 1    In this teaching, I am sure now you can get the answer to the problem of 85 – 54 with this two digit subtraction without borrowing which is 31 with absolutely no problem. Find Out More Subtraction Worksheets At Kids Math Blog.