Subtraction on a Number Line

Year 2 MathsAddition and Subtraction4 pages

About this worksheet

Seventeen subtraction questions for Year 2, each with a blank number line for pupils to draw their own jumps. Page 1 shows 45 - 20 as two jumps of ten, then gives six questions that take away tens only, from 45 - 10 to 89 - 40. Page 2 moves to two-digit numbers, jumping back the tens and then the ones, up to 72 - 38. Page 3 switches to counting on for differences such as 63 - 58, and ends with Sam giving away 7 of his 45 stickers. The answers show every jump. It covers England National Curriculum subtraction for Year 2.

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Subtraction on a Number Line: Addition and Subtraction - page 1

Subtraction on a Number Line: Addition and Subtraction - page 2

Subtraction on a Number Line: Addition and Subtraction - page 3

Subtraction on a Number Line: Addition and Subtraction - page 4

Curriculum objectives covered

Number - addition and subtraction

“Add and subtract numbers using concrete objects, pictorial representations, and mentally, including: a two-digit number and ones, a two-digit number and tens, two two-digit numbers”

Questions 1 to 6 take away tens, questions 7 to 16 use two two-digit numbers, and the sticker problem takes 7 ones from 45.

Number - addition and subtraction

“Recognise and use the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction and use this to check calculations and solve missing number problems”

Questions 13 to 16 answer a subtraction by counting on, which is addition.

What's inside this worksheet

Jump back in tens

Two worked number lines, then six questions such as 62 - 20 and 84 - 30 for pupils to draw and label.

Jump back in tens and ones

Six questions, from 48 - 12 to 72 - 38. Pupils start at the larger number, jump back the tens, then the ones.

Find the difference

Pupils count on from 28 to 32, 47 to 51, 58 to 63 and 38 to 42, then show their jumps for the sticker problem.

Answers

Each answer lists the jumps, such as 72, 62, 52, 42, then back 2 to 40 and back 6 to 34.

How teachers use it

Start on the right

Draw question 1 (45 - 10) on the board and mark 45 at the right-hand end first. Many pupils start at the left out of habit.

Crossing a ten

Questions 10 to 12 cross a tens number. The key splits the ones jump at 40, so 72 - 38 goes back 2 to 40, then 6 more to 34.

Back or on

After page 3, ask pupils whether they would count back 28 from 32 or count on from 28. The small gaps in questions 13 to 16 make the case for counting on.

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