All SSAT Elementary Level Math Resources
Example Questions
Example Question #1051 : Numbers And Operations
Solve for x.
To solve for x we subtract.
Example Question #9 : Recognize Angle Measure As Additive: Ccss.Math.Content.4.Md.C.7
If we wanted to make this angle into a right angle, how many more degrees would we need to add?
A right angle has a measurement of . To find how much more we would need to add we subtract.
Example Question #1053 : Numbers And Operations
Simplify the below:
In order to simplify:
We must gather the things that are the alike together.
Since we have an "a" and then we subtract an "a" there are no more a's left, so we should not have any a's in our answer.
Since we have a "b" added to another "b", we can see that we get when we add those together.
So the final answer becomes .
Example Question #1054 : Numbers And Operations
Elise had 12 hair clips, but she always took them out throughout the day and would often forget where they were. After three weeks, she realized she only had 5 hair clips left. How many did she lose?
If Elise started with 12 hair clips and ended with only 5, she lost 7. If you need to visualize it, you can draw 12 marks and cross out 5. Count the ones that are left.
Example Question #1052 : Ssat Elementary Level Quantitative (Math)
Tim’s soccer team has boys on the team. of them did not come to practice. How many did come to practice?
This is a subtraction problem because people did not show up for practice, so there will be less people at practice than if everyone had shown up.
We can start at and count back .
Example Question #1053 : Ssat Elementary Level Quantitative (Math)
Tiffany bought balloons. On the way to the car, blew away. How many does she have left?
This is a subtraction problem because Tiffany lost balloons so she will have less than what she started with.
We can start at and count back .
Example Question #526 : Operations & Algebraic Thinking
Joe has total math problems to complete for homework this week. He wants to get done today. How many will he have left after today?
This is a subtraction problem because we want to know how many homework problems Joe will have left after he completes some of them. We take the total number of problems that he has and subtract the number that he plans to do tonight. .
Example Question #3 : Mentally Add And Subtract Within 20: Ccss.Math.Content.2.Oa.B.2
Solve the following:
To subtract we can count backwards. Start at and count back
Example Question #1051 : Ssat Elementary Level Quantitative (Math)
On the morning of December 24th, a tree lot had trees left to sell. By the end of the day, the lot only had trees left. How many trees were sold?
This is a subtraction problem because we want to know how many trees were taken away, or sold, from the total. We take the number of trees they started with, and then subtract the number of trees they have left to find out how many they sold. .
Example Question #842 : Operations
Fill in the blank.
__________
This question is asking what we take away from to get .
We can add to find the missing number.
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