Subtraction with Regrouping Worksheet

Students subtract three-digit numbers needing a trade from the tens, from the hundreds or across a zero, and check with addition.

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Grades
2–3
Pages
2
Type
Worksheet
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Answer key
Answer key included

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Three-digit subtraction with regrouping

Students subtract three-digit numbers that need regrouping, after a worked example takes 524 − 268 through a hundreds, tens and ones frame with both trades marked. The nine problems get harder by row: a trade from the tens, then from the hundreds, then zeros to trade across, as in 403 − 157 and 700 − 286, where students regroup twice before they can take away the ones. A robotics club story, 605 − 368, also crosses a zero. Students show each trade above the top number.

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Learning objectives

  • Subtract three-digit numbers with a trade from the tens or the hundreds.
  • Regroup across zeros, as in 700 − 286.
  • Record each trade above the top number.
  • Check a subtraction answer by adding.
From the creator

Teaching tips

1

The key flags the most common slip: taking the smaller digit from the bigger one in every column, so 463 − 128 becomes 345. Have students ask "Is the top digit big enough?" before each column.

2

For the zero row, have students rewrite the top number before subtracting anything: 700 becomes 6 hundreds, 9 tens and 10 ones. Trading only once leaves an empty tens column, which is where students get stuck.

Differentiation

Meet every learner.

Ways to adjust the ten problems for different students.

Support

One kind of trade at a time

  • Do only the first row on day one, making each trade with base-ten blocks.
  • Redo 524 − 268 together, then work problem 1 as a second example.
  • Hold the zero row until the first two rows are right.
On level

Teach as written

  • The whole page, rows in order.
  • Students use the Check it box, then check two more answers the same way.
Extension

Explain the trades

  • Write one new problem for each row and swap with a partner.
  • Explain in words why 805 becomes 7 hundreds, 9 tens and 15 ones.
  • Solve the story problem a second way, counting up from 368 to 605.

Standards alignment.

Each one is checked against the official documents. Where the resource covers only part of a standard, the note says so.

Common Core Math · Grades 2–3
2.NBT.B.7Add and subtract within 1000 using place value, including trading tens and hundreds

Students subtract three-digit numbers on a place-value chart, trading a ten or a hundred (including across a zero) and writing their trades. Addition is only used to check one answer.

3.NBT.A.2Fluently add and subtract within 1000

Students subtract three-digit numbers with the written method, solve a story problem (605 − 368), and check an answer by adding. The file is practice toward speed and accuracy, not a timed fluency check, and addition gets little practice.

TEKS Math · Grade 3
3.4(A)Add and subtract within 1,000

Students subtract three-digit numbers with trades, including across zeros, solve a points story problem and check one answer by adding; addition problems and two-step problems are not included.

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Subtraction with Regrouping Worksheet: a place value chart showing the trades in 524 − 268, nine three-digit subtraction boxes, a story problem and a check
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Subtraction with Regrouping Worksheet: answer key listing each difference with its regrouping note, the robotics club story answer, the check and a teacher tip
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