Printable Two-Digit Subtraction Worksheets
Printable two-digit subtraction worksheets for 1st and 2nd grade, with an answer key on every sheet. The sets below cover 4 different skills, so you can start where your child actually is. Available as speed drills, word problems, and sorting activities.
Targeted Practice by Skill
Two-digit in columns without regrouping
Subtract
Two-digit in columns with regrouping
Subtract
Two-digit minus one-digit
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Two-digit minus one-digit
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Two-digit minus one-digit
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Two-digit in horizontal format
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Two-digit in horizontal format
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About Two-Digit Subtraction
What this skill is
Two-digit subtraction teaches subtracting 2-digit numbers vertically, borrowing (regrouping) 1 ten as 10 ones when the top ones digit is smaller than the bottom ones digit.
When children learn it
Two-digit subtraction without regrouping starts in 1st grade; regrouping is mastered in 2nd grade, aligned to 2.NBT.B.5.
Teaching Tips
- Check ones column first: if top is smaller, go next door and borrow 1 ten.
- Cross out the top tens digit immediately and write its reduced value.
Common Mistakes
- Subtracting the smaller digit from the larger digit regardless of top/bottom position (for 52 - 27, writing ones difference as 7 - 2 = 5).
- Forgetting to reduce the top tens digit by 1 after borrowing.
More Subtraction Concepts
Subtraction SentencesSubtraction Within 10Subtraction with Number LinesSubtraction Facts to 20Subtracting Whole Tens and HundredsSubtracting from Whole Tens, Hundreds and ThousandsSubtraction Word ProblemsMissing Minuend and SubtrahendMental SubtractionThree-Digit Subtraction4-Digit SubtractionSubtracting Large Numbers