Subtraction Intervention & Dyscalculia-Friendly Math Support
Help your learner explore what subtraction means through visual examples and supported practice.
Find dyscalculia-friendly subtraction intervention resources, with printable activities and a printed workbook for subtraction. Choose a bundle or focus on an individual strategy.
Use objects, pictures, fingers, and number lines alongside practice. Make room to move materials, explain an idea, or revisit an example together.
Make Room to See What Changes
Subtraction can feel abstract when a learner sees only numbers and symbols. Objects, drawings, and number lines give them ways to explore what is happening.
Try moving objects away, crossing out part of a drawing, or tracing jumps on a number line together. Connect what changes in the model with the written equation.
Keep helpful tools available and offer thinking time. Your learner can point, move materials, draw, or talk through their ideas.
Printable PDF • Available on TPT
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Counting Up Strategy
View Counting Up on TPTCount up from the smaller number to the larger number to explore the difference between them.
*Included with Subtraction Intervention*
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Adjust to Make it Easier Strategy
View Adjust to Make It Easier on TPTExplore how adjusting numbers can make a subtraction problem easier to work with while keeping track of the difference.
*Included with Subtraction Intervention*
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Take Away Strategy
View Take Away Strategy on TPTRepresent a starting quantity, remove part of it, and connect what remains with the subtraction equation
*Included with Subtraction Intervention*
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Break Apart Strategy
View Break Apart Strategy on TPTBreak a number into smaller parts and subtract in manageable steps, keeping track of what remains.
*Included with Subtraction Intervention*
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Friendly Numbers Strategy
View Friendly Numbers Strategy on TPTUse familiar numbers, such as multiples of ten, as stepping stones when working out a subtraction problem.
*Included with Subtraction Intervention*
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Number Line Strategy
View Number Line Strategy on TPTUse number-line jumps to make subtraction steps visible and track the difference between numbers.
*Included with Subtraction Intervention*
Not sure where subtraction gets stuck?
Explore the number skills that support subtraction with our Number Sense Starting Point finder.
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