Class 1 Maths Worksheet: Subtraction
The method (Count back): Start at the bigger number. Count back the number you take away. How many more or how many left = bigger number − smaller number. Check by adding back: answer + number taken away = the first number.
NameDateTime takenScore ___ / 40
- 1.Zoya had 14 marbles and gave 8 to a friend. How many marbles does Zoya have left?
- 2.? − 15 = 1
- 3.What is 2 less than 14?
- 4.Sneha had 10 pencils and gave 2 to a friend. How many pencils does Sneha have left?
- 5.There are 15 boys and 10 kites. How many more boys than kites are there?
- 6.What is 12 less than 15?
- 7.What is 11 less than 13?
- 8.6 − ? = 2
- 9.2 − 1 =
- 10.There are 7 birds and 5 nests. How many more birds than nests are there?
- 11.Aditya had 18 laddoos and gave 13 to a friend. How many laddoos does Aditya have left?
- 12.There are 15 boys and 13 kites. How many more boys than kites are there?
- 13.There are 3 pencils and 2 erasers. How many more pencils than erasers are there?
- 14.What is 1 less than 11?
- 15.What is 2 less than 3?
- 16.17 − ? = 1
- 17.14 − 3 =
- 18.7 − ? = 5
- 19.? − 1 = 4
- 20.12 − 7 =
- 21.What is 11 less than 14?
- 22.Isha had 20 bananas and gave 11 to a friend. How many bananas does Isha have left?
- 23.There are 6 children and 3 chairs. How many more children than chairs are there?
- 24.? − 6 = 8
- 25.19 − ? = 3
- 26.Diya had 6 marbles and gave 1 to a friend. How many marbles does Diya have left?
- 27.11 − 8 =
- 28.Nisha had 10 balloons and gave 5 to a friend. How many balloons does Nisha have left?
- 29.What is 4 less than 6?
- 30.There are 17 pencils and 12 erasers. How many more pencils than erasers are there?
- 31.8 − 7 =
- 32.17 − 11 =
- 33.Rohan had 19 mangoes and gave 2 to a friend. How many mangoes does Rohan have left?
- 34.Riya had 18 flowers and gave 4 to a friend. How many flowers does Riya have left?
- 35.What is 3 less than 7?
- 36.8 − ? = 7
- 37.11 − 3 =
- 38.What is 6 less than 15?
- 39.There are 17 birds and 15 nests. How many more birds than nests are there?
- 40.There are 13 bottles and 4 lids. How many more bottles than lids are there?
Answer key
- 6
- 16
- 12
- 8
- 5
- 3
- 2
- 4
- 1
- 2
- 5
- 2
- 1
- 10
- 1
- 16
- 11
- 2
- 5
- 5
- 3
- 9
- 3
- 14
- 16
- 5
- 3
- 5
- 2
- 5
- 1
- 6
- 17
- 14
- 4
- 1
- 8
- 9
- 2
- 9
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