Arithmetic Grade One

Lesson Seventy-eight: Subtraction


Subtraction

				13
  13 - 4 = 9			-4
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				 9


8 8 - 3 = 5 -3 --- 5
NOTE: Explain that a subtraction problem can be written horizontally or vertically and that the difference remains the same. Don't dwell on the words "vertically" and "horizontally," however. Have the student take horizontally written problems and rewrite them vertically and then find the difference for each problem.
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