Adding, subtracting & regrouping

Exchange a ten, keep its value

Subtract within one hundred, including when ones need regrouping.

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8 practice questions · Optional read aloud · Thinking pad

Let’s understand the idea.

  1. Start with the whole amount. Remove the requested tens and ones.
  2. If there are not enough separate ones, exchange one ten for ten ones.
  3. Add the amount removed back to the result to check the original whole.

Something to notice

Ask the learner to explain why an exchange keeps the same value and connect their own drawing to a written method. Encourage different valid strategies. Untimed typed accuracy with worked models does not establish fluent independent calculation or explanation.

Try it. Change it. Explain it.

Open the lesson to use its pictures and controls. In How it works, connect the picture to the idea. In Play & discover, change the quantities and notice what stays the same. In Your turn, answer questions and use the explanation to check your reasoning.

You can ask for help, draw on the thinking pad, or listen to the question and answer options. Progress distinguishes independent work from work completed with help.

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Curriculum connection

Grade 2 · 2.NBT · US Common Core

2.NBT.B.5

This lesson is mapped to these standards. A completed activity is practice evidence, not a claim of mastery. Content is checked against the linked official standards and its mathematical models are tested.

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