Subtract Within 1,000 Using Compensation #2

Magnify your mental math skills with this subtraction worksheet! In each problem, students will begin by making the smaller number into a “friendly hundred” by using addition. Then, learners are asked to use mental math to solve the subtraction sentence.

Created for a third-grade curriculum, this worksheet will help build mental math skills and familiarize students with the compensation strategy. Solving math problems mentally can help students work through problems quickly and confidently. This strategy also sharpens learners’ addition and subtraction skills as they find out how to turn the smaller number into a friendly hundred and apply it to both the minuend and subtrahend.

Be sure to complete the first worksheet, Subtract Within 1,000 Using Compensation #1. To practice another strategy, check out Place Value Chart Subtraction Without Regrouping: Differences Within 1,000 #1.