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Last month we talked about adding and how to add "1 more".

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How do we add 1 more?

This month we are going to learn how to subtract (or take away) from something. We will always know when we are working on a subtraction problem because we will use words like "subtract", "minus", or even "take away". Sometimes the problem will not have any words, just numbers and symbols.

The subtraction sign looks like this:

- A simple horizontal line.

When we are subtracting or taking away, that means we are having less of something. When we subtract, what is left over is sometimes called the "difference" or or "what's left"

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Lets act this out.

Use cubes.

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