Subtracting with multiple zeros in the “top number” doesn’t need to be a seemingly endless cycle of borrowing. The Subtract One strategy simplifies the task with two easy steps.

This holiday season, use the worksheet, Holiday Shopping: Decimal Practice 2, to help your fifth-graders add, subtract, and multiply decimals. These real-world skills will be helpful as they plan their own gift-giving this holiday.

This holiday season, use the worksheet, Holiday Shopping: Decimal Practice 1, to help your fifth-graders add, subtract, and multiply decimals. These real-world skills will be helpful as they plan their own gift-giving this holiday.

Do some subzero subtraction with this regrouping worksheet. Kids will regroup, or borrow, to do some tricky subtraction work.