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Subtraction Lesson Plans

Subtraction doesn't have to be boring, especially when teachers use Education.com's themed subtraction lesson plans. Our lesson plans help kids provide frameworks and rhymes to practice and master subtraction. With a lesson plan tutorial that spells out the different steps - introduction, teacher modeling, guided practice, independent working time, differentiation, assessment, and review - your classroom will hungry for more subtraction!

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Subtraction Stories
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Subtraction Stories
Let’s make subtraction real! In this lesson, students dive into three-digit subtraction by solving real-world word problems.
2nd grade
Math
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Place Value: Digit Game
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Place Value: Digit Game
Help your students understand place values with this lesson that catches their interest using a story book. Students will go one to play a riddle game both in a group and individually.
3rd grade
Math
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Borrowing Center
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Borrowing Center
Using base ten blocks, cards, and clear cups, your students will practice the concept of borrowing for subtraction problems in this lesson.
2nd grade
Math
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Subtraction Towers
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Subtraction Towers
Help build your students subtraction skills by finding the unknown! This lesson will help your students understand the relationship between addition and subtraction, as students build towers to find unknown addends.
1st grade
Math
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Regrouping with Base-Ten Blocks
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Regrouping with Base-Ten Blocks
Dive deep into using base-ten blocks to solve two-digit subtraction problems with regrouping. This lesson can be used independently or in conjuction with the lesson Double Trouble: Subtraction Practice.
2nd grade
Math
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Decimals, Decimals, Decimals!
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Decimals, Decimals, Decimals!
This lesson combines three essential skills in one entertaining game! Students will need to add, subtract, and understand place value with decimals.
5th grade
Math
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Active Math
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Active Math
Have a class that can't sit still long enough to practice their addition? This activity puts math and PE together to help your kids add up to 20 while being active!
1st grade
Math
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Art Subtraction
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Art Subtraction
Practice subtraction with art! Help early learners grasp the concept of "taking away" using drawings. This lesson helps students work toward subtraction with numerals, and the mastery of simple shapes.
1st grade
Math
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Spring Subtraction Equations
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Spring Subtraction Equations
What comes after winter? Spring! What comes after the equals sign in a subtraction equation? The difference! In this spring lesson plan, students will look at a variety of spring-themed subtraction pictures and write matching equations.
Kindergarten
Math
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Big Spenders
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Big Spenders
Get ready to do some shopping! In this lesson, students will learn about subtracting 100 from multiples of 100 when making big purchases.
2nd grade
Math
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Make a Big Difference
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Make a Big Difference
Master rounding and estimating skills by having students challenge their classmates in the Make a Big Difference game. Roll three dice two times to arrive at two three-digit numbers. The largest difference wins!
3rd grade
Math
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Math Mind Magic
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Math Mind Magic
Every student can be a magician after this lesson in mentally adding and subtracting by 10. No previous magic training required!
1st grade
Math
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How Big is Your Tower?
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How Big is Your Tower?
Let’s build! Students will explore subtraction and patterns of one less in this hands-on lesson. Get out the snap cubes and dive in.
Kindergarten
Math
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Dimes, Dimes, Dimes
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Dimes, Dimes, Dimes
Get ready for some mental math! Help students practice subtracting by ten by solving real-world problems involving dimes.
2nd grade
Math
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