2nd grade math · Unit 3: Adding and subtracting within 100

Subtracting tens and ones

What this lesson shows

87 − 25: 80 − 20 = 60 and 7 − 5 = 2, so 62.

The worked example

The lesson works this one step by step: 87 − 25 = □. Then your kid tries one like it on paper.

The steps

  1. Tens and ones
  2. Take away the ones
  3. Take away the tens
  4. What is left?

Helping at home

Show the first number in tens and ones. Take away the ones, then the tens, and say what is left.

If your kid gets stuck

Take the ones, then the tens.

Watch it with Lux

With Lux, this lesson is a narrated video and a printed page your kid works on. Then Lux helps with the same math on their own worksheet, one question at a time.

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Standards

  • Common Core 2.NBT.B.5
    Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.
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