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Features

  • Seven questions on what the unit builds on
  • Count back on a number line, and cross out pictures to subtract
  • Write a fact family within 10, and find missing numbers
  • Numbers around 10, like 14 = 10 + □ and 10 − 3 = □
  • Subtraction facts within 10, and the addition facts past 10 that subtraction leans on
  • A Score line, to sort the class before the unit
  • Answer key names the lesson each question leads into

Skills Covered

  • Count back on a number line
  • Cross out pictures to subtract
  • Write a fact family
  • Find a missing number within 10
  • Numbers around 10
  • Subtraction facts within 10
  • Addition facts past 10

How to Use This Pack

One page to give on the first day of the unit on subtraction to 20 and the equal sign, before any teaching. Its seven questions are on what the unit builds on: counting back and taking away within 10, a small fact family, missing numbers, numbers around 10, and the addition facts subtraction builds on. It has a Score line, and the key names the lesson each question leads into. The unit review and the unit test are packs of their own.

In the Classroom

Give the pre-check on the first day and sort the class by what they missed: a student who cannot yet count back needs a number line to point along for the first lessons, and one who misses the addition facts past 10 needs fact practice beside the unit, since thinking addition to subtract leans on them. The questions are the unit's easiest, so a low score is no surprise; it shows where to start.

At Home

Use it to see what your child needs before the unit on subtraction starts: count back from 10 together, and ask how many are left when you take a few toys away from a group.

Tips for Success

  • Give it before the first lesson, not after
  • Read the questions aloud for students who are still learning to read
  • Read the score as a starting point, not a grade
  • Keep a number line and counters out for a student who missed the counting back question
  • The key names the lesson each question leads into

Common Core Standards Alignment

This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:

  • 1.OA.B.4 Treat subtraction as finding a missing addend: to solve 12 - 9, ask what added to 9 makes 12.
  • 1.OA.C.5 Connect counting with adding and subtracting, such as adding 4 by counting on four more.
  • 1.OA.C.6 Add and subtract to 20, working fluently within 10, with strategies like counting on, making ten, fact families and doubles plus one.
  • 1.OA.D.8 Solve for the missing number in adding or subtracting equations like 9 + ? = 15 or ? - 4 = 6.
  • 2.OA.B.2 Add and subtract to 20 quickly using strategies done in the head, and by year's end instantly recall every sum of two single-digit numbers.

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1st Grade Subtraction and Equal Sign Pre-Check

A check to give before the unit on subtraction to 20 and the equal sign, on what the unit builds on. Students count back, cross out to subtract, write a fact family, find missing numbers, break apart numbers around 10 and answer facts.

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What’s Included

  • A one-page pre-check (7 questions) with a Score line
  • An answer key that names each question's lesson and skill (2 pages in all)
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