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Subtraction worksheets with answer key
Choose the size of the numbers and how much borrowing the sheet needs. Answers are never negative, and the key prints on its own page.
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Guide
Borrowing settings
None keeps every top digit at least as big as the one under it (86 − 43). Some needs at least one borrow (82 − 47). Every borrows in each column below the highest: on three-digit sheets the ones and the tens both need it (523 − 168). These are the harder sums, so save them for when the method is secure.
Borrowing is also called regrouping or decomposition, depending on where you learned it; the setting means the same thing.
Checking with addition
Ask children to check an answer by adding it back: 523 − 168 = 355 because 355 + 168 = 523. Our addition pages use the same regrouping settings, so you can print a matching addition sheet.
Printable sample PDFs
Try a fixed worksheet with its matching answer page. These samples use sheet 73; for other topics, settings or sheet numbers, use Print / Save PDF in the generator.
- Addition without regrouping PDF20 medium questions + answer page
- 7 times table PDF20 multiplication questions + answer page
Ready-made worksheets
- All topics generator15 topics, every setting
- Multiplication worksheetsTimes tables, mixed facts and two-digit factors
- Times tables worksheetsOne table at a time, 2 to 12
- Addition worksheetsWithin 20, two- and three-digit, with or without regrouping
- Division worksheetsDivision facts and long division, exact answers
- Fraction worksheetsAdd, simplify, unlike denominators
- Telling time worksheetsClock faces to the hour, half hour and 5 minutes
- Mad minute & timed drills100 facts on one page with a timer
- 2nd grade math worksheetsTwo-digit adding and subtracting, time, money
- 3rd grade math worksheetsTimes tables, division facts, rounding, area
- 4th grade math worksheetsMulti-digit multiplication, long division, fractions, decimals
- 5th grade math worksheetsUnlike fractions, decimals, percentages
Frequently asked questions
Can a subtraction answer be negative?
No. The first number is always at least as big as the second, at every level.
What is borrowing in subtraction?
When a top digit is smaller than the digit below it, one ten (or hundred) is exchanged for ten ones (or tens) so the column can be subtracted. It is also called regrouping.
Can I get the same worksheet again?
Yes. The same settings and sheet number always give the same questions and key.