Whether you have just started a subtraction unit or are about to wrap one up, Swimming Subtraction is the resource for you!

This resource provides your students with the opportunity to use number lines and apply subtraction strategies, such as counting back, jumping by tens and ones, or bridging tens, to solve simple subtraction problems.

With three sets of differentiated worksheets, students at varying levels of mathematical confidence can have a go at ‘swimming’ along the number lines to solve the subtraction problems, drawing on their knowledge of subtraction strategies and facts to 20.