Missing number subtraction within 10 worksheets

What is on this worksheet

Subtraction equations with one empty box, in any position, and starting numbers up to 10.

• Operation: Subtraction
• Largest sum or minuend: 10

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About missing number worksheets

Each equation has exactly one missing number, so there is only one correct answer. Put the box in the result, in the first number, in the second number, or let it vary.

Finding a missing number builds the inverse-operation thinking that later becomes algebra.

Printing

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