Addition & Subtraction Multi-step Problems
Maths: Year 5 & 6 National Curriculum, topic 5.5.1
Solving Addition and Subtraction Multi-step Problems
When you solve multi-step problems, you need to look at which part of the calculation needs to be answered first. Let's look at an example:
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Question
- You need to read the question and work out what your first step will be.
Information in the question
- In this question, you are told how many tickets are sold on Saturday and Sunday.
- You also know the total number of tickets that there are.
How to answer 1
- You need to work out how many tickets were sold on Saturday and Sunday combined.
- 34,823 + 26,347 = 61,170
How to answer 2
- And then subtract the number of tickets that have been sold from the total number of tickets.
- 78,384 − 61,170 = 17,214