Grade 3 Math

Subtraction to 100

Subtraction to 100 helps children practise revising subtraction to 100 with regrouping and practising both take-away and difference strategies. Read the short guide and look through the examples before choosing online practice or a printable worksheet.

How to solve this

  • Subtracting within 100 in grade 3 should be automatic — practise until you no longer need to count on fingers.
  • Strategies: count up from the smaller to the larger number, or decompose and subtract tens then ones.
  • Check by adding: answer + subtracted number must equal the starting number.

Examples

83 - 47 = ?

36

92 - 58 = ?

34

71 - 35 = ?

36