Subtraction worksheets

Have you mastered column subtraction? Let's find out...

How are your subtraction skills? Can you work out the answers to these football subtraction word problems?

Number lines are an essential tool in primary-school maths. Print out our colourful versions for use with your child at home, or use them as inspiration to help your child design (and perhaps decorate) their own number line.

Starting with the number on the left, work out which route the girl takes to get to the pink house. Which route does she take to get to the purple house?

To add and subtract negative numbers, it’s helpful to use a number line. See if you can complete these sums using the number lines.

Inverse operations are opposites. We use them to check our calculations, ‘undoing’ an operation to get us back to where we started. The inverse calculation of addition is subtraction. Use subtraction to help you find the missing numbers in these sums.

For these subtraction questions, use addition to check if the answers are right or wrong. For these division questions, use multiplication to check if the answers are right or wrong.

This positive and negative number line worksheet was created by an experienced teacher to show your child the difference between positive and negative numbers.

Can your child use the number line to work out the difference between these pairs of numbers?

Can you cut out these 10 sausages and colour them in? Do you know this song? Use your coloured sausages to show what happens as you sing – ask you mum or dad for a real pan to toss your bangers in (safely off the stove!).