1. David sold 14 thrift stamps and Walter sold 4. How many more did David sell than Walter?

2. Edna spent 4 cents for pencils. She gave the clerk 25 cents. How much change should she receive?

3. Ada knitted a sweater. She purled 8 inches and knit 38 inches plain. How many more inches were knit plain than purled?

4. Arthur lived 68 miles from the city. After he had gone 4 miles toward the city, how many miles had he still to travel?

5. John drove 29 cows and Peter drove 8 cows. How many more cows were there in John's herd than in Peter's?

6. Clara had 36 pieces in her doll's dinner set, but 5 plates were lost. How many pieces remained?

7. Philip had 76 radishes in his garden and pulled up 4 radishes. How many radishes were left in the garden?

8. William rode 29 miles on his bicycle on Thursday and 8 miles on Friday. How much farther did he ride on Thursday than on Friday?

9. From a class consisting of 37 children, 6 children were absent. How many were present?

1. What number must be added to 5 to make 60?

60

Write the example in this way.

5

55

Think 5+55= 60.

The process of finding the difference between two numbers, or finding what must be added to a number to make a given number, is called subtraction.

The number from which we subtract is called the minuend.

The number subtracted is called the subtrahend.

The answer in subtraction is called the difference or remainder.

6. Our baseball team played 20 games and lost 9

games. How many did they win?

7. Martha bought 1 yard of ribbon for 8 and handed the clerk 50%. How much change did she get? 8. Make a number story about 90¢ less 5.

1. What number must be added to 5 to make 83?

9. Peter saved 74. How much more did he need

for a 25-cent thrift stamp?

10. Alice counted 36 radishes in her garden one morning. She pulled 9. How many remained?

11. Make a number story about 65 less 8.

1. It takes 20 stamps to fill a card with war savings stamps. Walter had 4 stamps. How many more did he need to fill the card?

2. Alice had 33 stitches on her knitting needle and bound off 8 stitches. How many stitches were left?

3. Frank's garden contained 72 radishes. He pulled 9 radishes. How many radishes were left in the

garden?

4. Our classroom seats 46 pupils. How many seats were filled when 7 pupils were absent?

5. A farmer had 41 cows. How many cows did he sell?

6. Hazel had 63 cents.

He sold all but 9 cows.

She paid 5 cents for a

stamp. How much money had she left?

7. Katherine bought a box of crayons for 8 cents. How much had she left from 50 cents?

8. A shelf of the school library contained 40 books. How many remained after 6 books were taken away?

9. Philip had 8 stamps in his collection on April 1 and 72 stamps on May 1. How many stamps did he collect during the month?

10. Emily's necklace contained 91 beads. How many beads were left after she had lost 7 beads?

11. James was saving money for a 50-dollar Liberty bond. After he had saved 9 dollars, how much more did he need?

United States money is written in dollars and cents. A period (.), named a "decimal point," is placed to the right of dollars. After the point, cents are written in two places. Thus, 5 dollars and 25 cents is written $5.25; 5 cents is written $.05; 42 cents, $.42.

1. Read the prices in the first two columns. Write the others with the dollar sign.

$24

8

$32

9. Copy and add:

Write the dollar sign only with the first.

number and with the answer.

10. Copy and subtract:

Write in columns, placing the points under one another.

11. $4.60, $3.28, $.42. 12. $.53, $21.40, $ 3.75, $ 5.

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