Subtraction Word Problems Lesson
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Hey this is Hannah Vaughn! and I am going
to be teaching you how to do subtraction word
problems I've actually already taught this
lesson I taught this in a kindergarten classroom
and this is the standard that I used it is
from Cpalms it is to solve one step addition
and subtraction word problems and add and
subtract within 10 using objects, drawings
or pictures So what I did was first I went
to find some type of things that I could use
I went onto teacherspayteachers.com and I
found all these awesome worksheets well they're
worksheet type things but they are super cute
Like this was during easter time and so I
found these ones they're about bunnies and
easter eggs and flowers and so it was super
cute on the bottom of these things they actually
already had manipulatives to use like they
had these little easter eggs to cut out or
this one with the bunnies had bunnies that
you could cut out and so that was super fun
for the kids because they already had their
manipulatives to use and they just put them
in the picture and could just add that way
or subtract that way so the way that I started
my lesson was I gave them all white boards
and I started my lesson by just doing a simple
subtraction problem just to see how they did
because they hadn't been doing subtraction
that long and they did awesome with it so
we just moved right on to the word problems
I just started with just giving them the key
words that they needed to use so like with
this one there are 8 bunnies sitting in the
field 3 of them hop away how many bunnies
are left? and so I wanted them to be able
to tell the difference between addition and
subtraction word problems so I told them to
look for words like how many are left?
instead of like in this one right here it
says Fred the Bunny had 4 eggs he found 3
more.
How many eggs did Fred the Bunny have in all?
and so to have in all I wanted them to know
that's addition and you're going to be adding
with that one and they really got that concept
very fast and they were able to do these just
amazingly but some really cool manipulatives
that I thought you could use if you didn't
find anything like this was since it was near
Easter time I printed out some Easter eggs
or you could have just went and bought some
Easter eggs it's just that right now I can't
because it's not Easter time but just some
Easter eggs or some flowers and that way they
can count because subtractions a little bit
difficult for Kindergarten students but that
way they can you know they can count and know
exactly what they are doing and that makes
it a lot easier but if you didn't have that
another one you could use are these that we
got in class in our boxes just counters to
help them be able to add and subtract a lot
easier but like I said these worksheets this
is a different worksheet and it's just so
much fun because they have the tens frame
down here and they have a place where you
can draw a picture they have a number line
up there and so this makes it super easy for
them to be able to do it and they don't have
to do all of it and I told them that you can
just pick one thing and just right the answer
there but two common misconceptions that they
have when they're doing this is obviously
learning which one is addition and subtraction
because that can be kind of hard for them
to understand and so a lot of times they'll
add when they're supposed to subtract and
just things like that another misconception
is that a lot of times they get the numbers
confused and they start trying to like subtract
them and they're like oh I can't subtract
that because that doesn't subtract and so
that's another common misconception that I
saw them do but the way that I taught this
to them was I just took I had all the worksheets
printed out for them but I took one of the
worksheets myself and I started like they
started reading it out with me and so I wanted
them to umm to do it first I did it for them
I read it out and I put it on my whiteboard
I wrote down like in this one the 8 and 3
I read it out for them and told them what
they important numbers were what the important
words were and then I did it for them the
next one I had them do with me I had them
read it out with me as best they could and
then I had them write down the important numbers
that they thought were important and then
we all came back together and completed it
together and saw if they got it right or wrong
and then the last time we did this because
I had three different worksheets that they
could do I let them do it all by themselves
and we all just came back together to see
if they got it right or not and I tried to
pick the ones with the easiest words because
they are in kindergarten and they're just
starting to learn how to read if they had
trouble with any of the words I just helped
them with it but they really got it great
so one of the tips that I would for any lesson
is pre-test them on it because my students
already were great at this and so if I would
have pre-tested them I would have seen that
but after we did that we actually went into
center time and I had a bunch of Easter centers
for them to do there was one with a bucket
of paper carrots and it had numbers on them
for them to subtract and then worksheets that
go along with the carrots and so they had
a lot of fun doing all of this stuff especially
since it was Easter time having it like centered
around Easter was super fun for them but thank
you for watching how to do subtraction word
problems!