Question Video: Finding the Missing Subtrahend in Subtraction Equations with Numbers up to 5 Mathematics • First Year of Primary School

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Find the missing number. Five take away the missing number equals two.

Here we have five teddy bears. We’ve taken away these teddy bears. Let’s count them: one, two, three. We took away three teddy bears. The question tells us there are two left. Five take away three equals two. The missing number is three.