There were 12 apples on a tree. A little boy climbed the tree and picked 5 apples. So there were 12 - 5 = 7 apples left on the tree. Then his sister came and brought 3 more apples she had found elsewhere. So in the end, there were 7 + 3 = 10 apples in total.
Once upon a time, there was a farmer who had 20 sheep. One day, 8 sheep got lost. We can write this as a subtraction story: 20 - 8. To find out how many sheep are left, we start with 20 and take away 8. We can break 20 into 10 and 10, and 8 into 5 and 3. First, take away 5 from one of the 10s, we get 5 left in that part. Then take away 3 from the other 10, we get 7 left in that part. So in total, there are 12 sheep left.
It makes the concepts more interesting. For kids, plain numbers can be boring, but a story with characters and situations makes it engaging. For example, a story about a magic forest where animals are adding or subtracting fruits is much more appealing.
5. For example, if there are 10 pencils and 5 are taken away, 10 - 5 = 5 pencils are left.
One way is to create a story about sharing candies. For example, say there are 5 children and 10 candies. If 3 children take 2 candies each, we can use subtraction to find out how many candies are left. First, 3 children taking 2 candies each means 3 * 2 = 6 candies are taken. Then we subtract 6 from 10, 10 - 6 = 4 candies left. This story makes the addition and subtraction operation easy to understand.
In a 2nd grade math story for subtraction, if it says 'There were 7 cookies and John ate 3 of them.' Then you subtract 3 from 7. 7 - 3 = 4, so there are 4 cookies left.
I had 50 dollars. I spent 20 dollars on a book. So the subtraction story is 50 - 20 = 30. I have 30 dollars left.
Well, there were two friends. One said he had 5 candies and the other said he had 3. They added them together thinking they would have 8. But when they put all their candies together, they found out one of them had some broken candies and they actually had only 7 whole candies. It was a funny mistake in their addition.
One example could be a story about a person trying to save enough money in a certain period to buy a special item, like a bike. They calculate how much they need to save each week to reach the goal in time.
There was a magical math forest. In this forest, there were trees with numbers on them. A little squirrel named Sammy loved to collect nuts. One day, he found a tree with the number 25 on it. He knew that if he divided those nuts equally among 5 of his friends, each friend would get 25 ÷ 5 = 5 nuts. So he happily shared the nuts with his friends and they all had a delicious meal.
In the math number story, we might have a situation where a boy has 15 stickers and his friend gives him 5 more. To find out how many stickers he has in total, we use addition. 15 + 5 = 20. This is a basic addition problem that is often found in 4th - grade math. Addition is an important operation where we combine two or more quantities. In this case, we are combining the initial number of stickers the boy had with the number of stickers his friend gave him to get the total number of 20 stickers.