Writing Words | Distance Learning

This week I have done another maths challenge called writing words. In this activity I needed to write down how I solved the problem and the answer. In this challenge I used long subtraction to help me solve it. One example of the maths is, 5343-493 which will equal to 4850. To this I first subtracted the ones column which is 3-3=0, next I borrowed 100 from the 300 because I can't subtract 9 from 4. So the maths will be 140-90=50. Then I borrowed again 1000 from the 5000 because I can't subtract 400 from 200. So the maths will be 1200 - 400 = 800. After that 4000-0=4000 because there is no number to subtract. Lastly I add all the totals which will be 0 + 50 + 800+400=4850. 

I enjoyed doing this activity because it made me think carefully on what strategy I should use.