Question Video: Subtracting Two Numbers up to 9 Mathematics • First Year of Primary School

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A person bought nine birds. Four flew away. How many are left?

We can use nine counters for the nine birds. We need to take away four because the question tells us that four flew away: one, two, three, four. Let’s count how many are left: one, two, three, four, five. A person bought nine birds. Four flew away. And five birds were left.