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Subtraction Skills Assessment
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Subtraction Skills Assessment
Work carefully. Show your working for calculations, and use the answer lines to explain your thinking.
Three- and four-digit subtraction
1.Calculate 6,314 − 2,758. Show your working.
2.Calculate 702 − 386. Show your working.
3.Calculate 5,000 − 2,647. Show your working.
4.A city bus route has 3,260 passenger trips recorded in one week. If 784 trips are removed from the count because they were duplicates, how many valid trips remain?
5.Tane has saved $1,460 towards a bicycle costing $2,175. How much more does he need to save?
6.Use a number line to work out 850 − 275. Label the jumps you make.
7.Explain how you would calculate 6,003 − 2,786. Include how you would handle the zeros when regrouping.
Five- and six-digit subtraction
8.Calculate 326,541 − 78,936. Show your working.
9.Calculate 700,000 − 358,472. Show your working.
10.Calculate 84,205 − 39,678. Show your working.
11.Sione’s bus company counted 248,630 passenger journeys in March and 193,875 in April. How many more journeys were counted in March than in April?
12.A bus operator budgeted $125,000 for vehicle repairs and has spent $87,450 so far. How much of the budget remains?
13.A learner calculated 63,425 − 27,869 and wrote 45,664. Find the correct answer and describe the likely place-value mistake.
14.A learner calculated 80,000 − 46,238 and wrote 56,238. Find the correct answer and explain what went wrong.
15.A toy workshop made 468,725 items in one month and 392,846 the next month. What was the difference in the number of items made?
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