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

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