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2nd grade math · Unit 7: Place value to 1,000

Subtracting to 1,000

What this lesson shows

612 − 17 as 612 − 12 − 5. That is 600 − 5, or 595.

The worked example

The lesson works this one step by step: 612 − 17. Then your kid tries one like it on paper.

The steps

  1. Split what you take
  2. Jump back to the hundred
  3. Jump back the rest

Helping at home

Split the number you take away: first the part that gets you to a hundred, then the rest. Jump back on a line for each part.

If your kid gets stuck

Jump back to the hundred first.

Watch it with Lux

With Lux, this lesson is a narrated video and a printed page your kid works on. Then Lux helps with the same math on their own worksheet, one question at a time.

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Standards

  • Common Core 2.NBT.B.7
    Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method. Understand that in adding or subtracting three-digit numbers, one adds or subtracts hundreds and hundreds, tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose or decompose tens or hundreds.
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