Wednesday 4th March 2026
I can subtract using column subtraction with regrouping.
Regrouping (also called exchanging or borrowing) is when we exchange between place values.
For example: 1 hundred = 10 tens, 1 ten = 10 ones
We need to regroup when the digit we're subtracting is larger than the digit above it.
Remember: When you regroup, you're not adding or taking away - you're just reorganising the number into different place values!
Complete each column subtraction. Remember to regroup when needed!
Complete each column subtraction. Remember to regroup when needed!
Watch out for zeros - you may need to regroup multiple times!
These are the toughest problems. Watch out for multiple zeros!
Choose your difficulty level and complete the practice problems.
Complete these 2-digit subtraction problems.
Complete these 2-digit minus 2-digit subtraction problems.
Complete these multi-digit subtraction problems. Watch for zeros!
Use the number cards 1-9 to create a subtraction where the answer is as close to 25,000 as possible!
Each card can only be used once.
To identify different types of story openings.
Meaning: When characters talk to each other.
Clue: Look for speech marks (" ").
Example: "Stop!" shouted Mina.
Meaning: When the writer tells what something looks, sounds, or feels like.
Clue: Helps you picture the scene.
Example: The tall trees moved gently in the wind.
Meaning: When something is happening.
Clue: Shows movement or excitement.
Example: The cat jumped onto the table.
The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff.
How far had he walked? Nobody knows. Where had he come from? Nobody knows. How was he made? Nobody knows.
Taller than a house, the Iron Man stood at the top of the cliff, on the very brink, in the darkness.
The wind sang through his iron fingers. His great iron head, shaped like a dustbin lid but as big as a bedroom, turned to the right, then slowly turned to the left. His iron ears turned, this way, that way. He was hearing the sea. His eyes, like headlamps, glowed white, then red, then infra-red, searching the sea. Never before had the Iron Man seen the sea.
"It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress.
"I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things and other girls nothing at all," added little Amy, with an injured sniff.
"We've got our family and each other," said Beth contentedly, from her corner.
The four young faces on which the firelight shone brightened at the cheerful words, but darkened again as Jo said sadly...
I disappeared on the night before my twelfth birthday. July 28 1988. Only now can I at last tell the whole extraordinary story, the true story. Kensuke made me promise that I would say nothing, nothing at all, until at least ten years had passed. It was almost the last thing he said to me. I promised and because of that, I have had to live out a lie.
I could let sleeping lies sleep on, but more than ten years have passed now. I have done school, done college, and had time to think. I owe it to my family and friends, all of whom I have deceived for so long, to tell the truth about my long disappearance, about how I lived to come back.
Match each story to its opening type:
Choose your favourite opening and explain why with two reasons.
Use sentence starters like: "The opening that makes me want to read on is... My first reason is... Another reason is..."
Think about the book you are currently reading. Answer these questions:
1. What type of opening does your book have?
2. How effective is the opening? Did it make you want to read on? Explain: