Subtracting across zeros worksheets Grades 2–3

How to do it

400 − 156: borrow through the zeros. 400 becomes 3 hundreds, 9 tens, 10 ones.

Example problems

1. $\begin{array}{r}1000 \\ -\,915 \\ \hline \end{array}$$85$Show answer
2. $\begin{array}{r}600 \\ -\,214 \\ \hline \end{array}$$386$Show answer
3. $\begin{array}{r}702 \\ -\,621 \\ \hline \end{array}$$81$Show answer
4. $\begin{array}{r}409 \\ -\,285 \\ \hline \end{array}$$124$Show answer

Three- and four-digit addition and subtraction

1. Three-digit addition without carrying
2. Three-digit addition, carrying from the ones
3. Three-digit addition, carrying from the tens
4. Three-digit addition, carrying twice
5. Three-digit subtraction without borrowing
6. Three-digit subtraction, borrowing from the tens
7. Three-digit subtraction, borrowing from the hundreds
8. Three-digit subtraction, borrowing twice
9. Subtracting across zeros
10. Four-digit addition and subtraction
11. Adding columns of numbers