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Use Manipulatives to Represent Subtraction

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Example, videos, and solutions to help Grade 2 students learn how to use manipulatives to represent subtraction with decompositions of 1 hundred as 10 tens and 1 ten as 10 ones.

Common Core Standards: 2.NBT.6, 2.NBT.7, 2.NBT.8, 2.NBT.9

New York State Common Core Math Module 4, Grade 2, Lesson 24

NYS Math Module 4 Grade 2 Lesson 24

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Lesson 24 Homework

2. Solve using your place value chart and number disks. Unbundle the hundred or ten when necessary. Circle what you did to model each problem.
b. 174 – 58 = ______
I unbundled the hundred. Yes No
I unbundled a ten. Yes No

e. 145 - 76 = ______
I unbundled the hundred. Yes No
I unbundled a ten. Yes No

k. 145 – 37 =
I unbundled the hundred. Yes No
I unbundled a ten. Yes No



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