Word Problems
Subtraction Vocab
3 Digit Subtraction
Place Value
Strategies
100
A baseball game was played in front of 712 cheering spectators. there were 530 men and the rest were women. How many women turned up to watch the game?
182
100
What word in this sentence tells you it's a subtraction problem?
Sarah has 100 M&Ms. She gives 46 to Joe. How many does she have left?
Left
100
753
-378
375
100
The place value where we start subtracting in a 3 digit subtraction problem
Ones place
100
357-259
3 hundreds 5 tens 7 ones=2 hundreds 14 tens 17 ones
2 hundreds 5 tens 9 ones=2 hundreds 5 tens 9 ones
= 9 tens 8 ones
= 98
Expanded form
200
A grocery store sold 957 boxes of red and green grapes. If 485 boxes had green grapes, how many boxes had red grapes?
472
200
What word(s) tell you this is a subtraction problem?
Mrs Mandracchia needs to make 200 cookies for her daughter's bake sale. She has baked 121. How many more does she need to bake?
How many more
200
953
- 368
585
200
The place value we borrow from when we need more ones
Tens place
200
What strategy am I using?
Base Ten Blocks
300
Jenny had 820 T-shirts to sell. At the end of the week, only 243 remained. How many T-shirts did Jenny sell?
577
300
What word(s) tells you this is a subtraction problem?
Mrs Cottage is reading a book that has 300 pages. Over the weekend she read 141 pages. How many more does she need to read to finish the book?
How many more
300
678
-593
85
300
The place we need to borrow from when we need more tens
Hundreds place
300
258-149
2 hundreds 5 tens 8 ones=2 hundreds 4 tens 18 ones
- 1 hundred 4 tens 9 ones
= 1 hundred 0 tens 9 ones= 109
Expanded form
400
A diner sold 276 plates of waffles, and 314 plates of grilled cheese over the weekend. How many more plates of grilled cheese did they sell than they did of waffles?
38
400
What word tells you this is a subtraction problem?
Betty has 76 flowers. She gives 11 to Steve. How many remain?
remain
400
925
- 568
357
400
What number is in the tens place?
435
3
400
Traditional/Vertical/Stacking
500
A bookstore has 891 book in two different genres. If 665 books are fiction books, how many books are nonfiction?
216
500
What word tells you this is a subtraction problem?
What's the difference between 745 and 555?
difference
500
800
-253
547
500
What number is in the hundreds place?
670
6
500
Stacking/Traditional/Vertical