Students will solve word problems where a quantity is being removed from a group, including situations where the result, the change, or the starting amount is unknown. Students identify the action of separating or removing in a story and write or model a subtraction equation.
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Grade 1 · Addition and Subtraction Word Problems · question 1 of 3
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Ana has 8 hats. 1 hat blows off. How many hats does she have now?
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Take-from means some are removed from a group.
What is left is the difference.
Ana had 9 shells. She gave 4 away. Show 9, take away 4, and count back: 9, 8, 7, 6. 5 are left.
The story starts with 9 and some go, so the number gets smaller.
Counting back from 9 is quicker than counting the 5 that are left from 1.
9 − 4 = 5 is the number sentence for the story.
Start with what you had. Take away. Count back.
Adding the numbers because there are 2 of them: 9 + 4 = 13.
Some were given away, so take away: 9 − 4 = 5.
8 − 1 = ___ — 7. Count back 1 from 8: 7.
Maya has eight apples. Then she eats three of them. How many apples are left?
Let's draw all eight apples in a row so we can see them.
Maya eats three apples. That means we take three away.
We cross out three apples to show they are gone.
Now count what's left: one, two, three, four, five.
We can write the story as a subtraction: eight take away three.
Eight minus three equals five.
Maya has five apples left. Great work!
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