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Subtraction Skills Quiz
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Subtraction Skills Quiz
Solve each subtraction problem. Show your thinking where asked. Check that your answers make sense.
Backstage number skills
1.At the music festival, 100 wristbands are ready for visitors. After 50 are handed out, how many are left?
2.A box holds 80 glow sticks. The crew gives out 35. How many glow sticks remain?
3.Harrison counts 234 entry tokens, then uses 117. Calculate 234 − 117. Show how you regroup one or more place values.
4.Show 234 − 117 on the number line by marking the start at 234 and making jumps back to 117. Label your jumps.
Festival problem-solving
5.Keira’s festival food stall prepares 150 fruit cups. By lunchtime, 87 have been sold. Write a subtraction equation and find how many fruit cups are left.
6.Losa estimates 463 − 218 by rounding each number to the nearest ten. What estimate does Losa get?
7.Choose the correct difference for 502 − 176.
- 326
- 336
- 426
- 374
8.The sound crew has 385 metres of cable. They use 129 metres on the main stage. How many metres of cable remain?
9.Fill in the missing number: 700 − □ = 458.
10.True or false? Subtracting 298 from 600 gives a difference greater than 300. Give the correct difference to check.
TrueFalse
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