Subtracting Across Zeros Worksheets
Problems like 4,000 − 1,637 are the hardest subtraction a primary child meets, because the borrow has to travel through two or three zeros before it finds anything to take. Children who are otherwise fluent routinely fail here, so it earns its own sheet.
Subtracting Across Zeros
Name:Date:Score:
- 18003−423
- 25003−700
- 36100−569
- 41100−245
- 53003−488
- 67005−607
- 72003−542
- 82009−508
- 96700−738
- 104090−436
- 115001−677
- 123010−144
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Answer key (12 answers)
- 1. 7580
- 2. 4303
- 3. 5531
- 4. 855
- 5. 2515
- 6. 6398
- 7. 1461
- 8. 1501
- 9. 5962
- 10. 3654
- 11. 4324
- 12. 2866
What to watch for when you grade this sheet
- Turning a borrowed zero into 10 but forgetting to reduce the next column.
- Treating every zero as 9 without working out why.
- Giving up on the chain and subtracting the columns independently.
One thing that helps
Teach it as one move: 4,000 becomes 3 thousands, 9 hundreds, 9 tens, 10 ones. Written out once in that form, the problem is ordinary.