Subtracting Decimals Using Blocks Worksheets

Completing Decimal Subtraction Sentences - Tenths | Without Regrouping

Like it or loathe it, you must master base ten blocks if you want to represent place value like an accomplished mathematician! These tools illustrate the places that each digit of a decimal minuend and subtrahend occupies.

Writing Decimal Subtraction Sentences - Tenths | Without Regrouping

The units illustrate the tenths place, the rods the ones place, and the flats the tens place of the decimals. Count each type of block to determine the digits of the minuend, subtrahend, and difference. Also set up the subtraction equation.

Completing Decimal Subtraction Sentences - Tenths | With Regrouping

First, translate the blocks into decimals mentally. For instance if you get 1.2 - 0.9, how would you subtract? Regroup the 1 ones in 1.2 into 10 tenths. Prepare the ground for subtracting 9 tenths from 12 tenths. The answer here is 0.3.

Writing Decimal Subtraction Sentences - Tenths | With Regrouping

Presenting base ten blocks for numbers in a decimal subtraction sentence, this set of pdf worksheets gets 4th grade and 5th grade children visualizing how the tens are regrouped into ones and ones into tenths in an equation.

Completing Decimal Subtraction Equations - Hundredths | No Regrouping

Take up these pdf exercises on subtracting decimals using blocks and steal a march on your peers! You'll have the units to represent the hundredths, the rods the tenths, the flats the ones, and the cubes the tens places this time.

Writing Decimal Subtraction Equations - Hundredths | No Regrouping

Casting around for models to explain subtracting decimals with 2 decimal places? Relax, for we bring you this invaluable handout rich with fundamental practice on writing decimal subtraction equations with base 10 blocks!

Completing Decimal Subtraction Equations - Hundredths | Regrouping

Regrouping in the hundredths, tenths, and ones places of a decimal can be a little tricky for children in the 5th grade and 6th grade. Thankfully, our print-ready worksheets on decimal subtraction using blocks ladle out some generous help!

Writing Decimal Subtraction Sentences - Hundredths | Regrouping

How does 41.42 - 20.78 equal 20.64? Key into the concept of borrowing as you regroup the blocks of the minuend, cross out the subtrahend blocks from them, and check if the leftover blocks match the difference.

Completing Decimal Subtraction Sentences - Thousandths | No Regrouping

Celebrate your skills as you solve these printable exercises on subtracting decimals with thousandths place. With base ten blocks to depict the digits to the right and left of the decimal point, decimal subtraction is easy as pie!

Writing Decimal Subtraction Sentences - Thousandths | No Regrouping

These pdfs have the charm it takes to instill in you a love for writing subtraction equations with numbers involving 3 decimal digits. The operation doesn't involve regrouping, so all there's to do is look at the models and frame the equation.

Completing Decimal Subtraction Sentences - Thousandths | Regrouping

Regroup the first set of blocks as required: hundredths into thousandths, tenths into hundredths, and ones into tenths; cross out the second set of blocks from them; and write down the decimal difference in the blanks. It's as simple as that!

Writing Decimal Subtraction Sentences - Thousandths | Regrouping

In order to finish off these subtracting decimals using base ten blocks exercises, the 6th grade and 7th grade students count the units, rods, flats, and cubes featured; figure out the decimals; and write down the equations.