1-digit − 1-digit subtraction, no borrowing

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1
5−3=
2
9−6=
3
4−2=
4
7−4=
5
8−6=
6
7−5=
7
9−1=
8
8−4=
9
9−8=
10
7−6=
11
4−1=
12
6−2=
13
9−8=
14
9−5=
15
7−3=
16
8−6=
17
9−3=
18
7−3=
19
7−1=
20
8−3=

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 1 to 9.
Every problem in it will come out column by column with nothing carried.
A careful solution takes 1 written step on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: the two numbers were added instead of subtracted.
Answers are a whole number.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 36 different ones, 15% — so a sheet of 20 will come back to a problem you have seen — there are only so many sensible ones of this kind.

The same skill, harder or easier

We would put this in front of a grade 1 class. That is our judgement, not a standard, and it is printed here so you can disagree with it. Everything else we put in that year.

Next to this

2-digit − 1-digit subtraction, no borrowing

Numbers 1–99; every one will come out column by column with nothing carried.

2-digit − 2-digit subtraction with borrowing

Numbers 12–98; every one will need a borrow from the column to the left.

All of subtraction

27 skills in this topic, 76 sets between them.

Printing it

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