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Lesson 17.3 and 17.4- Real life situations with subtraction (1)

Learning Objective-Students will be able to solve subtraction story
problems.

Explanation-

 Subtraction story problem or word problem helps
us to solve the problems we have in our daily life

using subtraction.

 We already know that there are many names for

subtraction like less than, minus, take away,left

with e.t.c

 Words like less than, minus, take away, left with

indicates that you need to subtract the two given

quantities.

 When you read a story problem you need to find
out the information that is given and what do we

need to find.

 Once you find the information and the words

related to subtraction , you can solve the problem.