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🧮 2nd Grade · Math2.OA.A.1Unit 5: Subtracting within 100

Subtraction word problems

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🎯 Objective: Students solve take-from and compare problems within 100.

Lesson outline

  1. Read and model problems.
  2. Choose a strategy and explain.
  3. Problem-solving stations.
  4. Exit: one problem.

Lesson 5 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

2.OA.A.1

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 2 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Subtract two-digit numbers using place value strategies
  • Check subtraction with addition

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Equal groups — the road to multiplication📚 All 2nd Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Subtracting within 100”

  1. Subtracting tens and ones
  2. Regrouping a ten
  3. Counting up to subtract
  4. Check with addition
  5. Subtraction word problems

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