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Features

Timed subtraction facts within 20 in digit boxes
A mixed adding and subtracting page
Missing numbers
Counting-back patterns
Fact tables for 6 and 8 with fact family triangles
Answer keys included

Skills Covered

Subtract fluently within 20
Switch between adding and subtracting
Find a missing number in a subtraction fact

Count back by the same amount
Practice facts with 6 and 8
Write a fact family from three numbers

How to Use This Pack

Six pages of subtraction practice with Halloween pictures along the bottom. Page 1 is a timed drill of 36 subtraction facts within 20 in digit boxes; page 2 mixes adding and subtracting, so students have to watch the signs. Page 3 starts with a row to answer, then four rows with a missing number in a box. Page 4 shows equal jumps back, like 25, 17, 9, and asks for the start number and how much is subtracted each time. Pages 5 and 6 practice subtracting with 6 and with 8, then end with two fact family triangles.

In the Classroom

Run the timed pages as a quick warm-up and let students track their own times. Before page 2, remind everyone to circle or point to the sign first. The jump and fact family pages make a good small-group lesson on how adding and subtracting are related.

At Home

Time page 1 one day and page 2 the next. If a subtraction fact is hard, turn it into adding: for 15 minus 9, ask what goes with 9 to make 15.

Tips for Success

Look at the sign before you solve
Think addition: 15 − 9 is the number that goes with 9 to make 15
The first jump box is an example, already filled in
Check a missing number by putting it back in the fact

Common Core Standards Alignment

This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:

1.OA.B.4 Treat subtraction as finding a missing addend: to solve 12 - 9, ask what added to 9 makes 12.
1.OA.C.6 Add and subtract to 20, working fluently within 10, with strategies like counting on, making ten, fact families and doubles plus one.
1.OA.D.8 Solve for the missing number in adding or subtracting equations like 9 + ? = 15 or ? - 4 = 6.
2.OA.B.2 Add and subtract to 20 quickly using strategies done in the head, and by year's end instantly recall every sum of two single-digit numbers.
3.OA.D.9 Spot patterns in addition tables, times tables and other arithmetic, and explain them with properties, like why multiples of 5 end in 0 or 5.

Halloween Subtraction Drills

1st – 2nd Grade

Subtraction fact practice within 20, with Halloween pictures along the bottom. Students work timed drills in digit boxes, mix adding and subtracting, find missing numbers, count back and practice facts with 6 and 8.

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What’s Included

6 worksheets, each with a matching answer key (12 pages)
2 timed drill pages with 36 facts each, one of them mixed
Missing numbers, counting-back patterns, and fact families
Fact tables for subtracting with 6 and 8, with Halloween pictures on every page

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