Make subtraction practice fun, meaningful, and engaging with this comprehensive collection of first-grade subtraction activities! Designed for classroom teachers, interventionists, homeschool families, and small groups, this resource provides hands-on practice that helps students build subtraction fluency and confidence while working with numbers through 20.
Students will strengthen their subtraction skills using a variety of engaging activities that promote conceptual understanding—not just memorization. Throughout the resource, students practice subtraction with ten frames, number lines, counting back, missing subtrahends, story problems, color-by-code activities, bingo games, and more.
Skills Covered
✔ Subtraction facts
✔ Counting back
✔ Number sense
✔ Number lines
✔ Ten frames
✔ Twenty frames
✔ Missing subtrahends
✔ Comparison problems
✔ Change unknown problems
✔ Part-part-whole thinking
✔ Word problem strategies
Perfect for:
This resource includes:
⭐ Subtraction worksheets
⭐ Subtraction Bingo games
⭐ Color by Code subtraction pages
⭐ Number line subtraction
⭐ Ten frame subtraction
⭐ Twenty frame subtraction
⭐ Counting Back activities
⭐ Draw and Solve pages
⭐ Picture subtraction
⭐ Missing subtrahends
⭐ Story problems
⭐ Cut-and-glue practice
⭐ Subtraction fluency practice
⭐ Subtraction within 5
⭐ Subtraction within 10
⭐ Subtraction within 20
⭐ Answer keys
This resource is perfect for helping first graders develop strong subtraction strategies while keeping practice fresh, engaging, and developmentally appropriate.