1. Find the difference between 2 numbers

2. Lets find the difference between 7 and 2

3. The red tower has 5 more blocks1
The difference is 5.
The red tower has 5 more blocks 2 3 4 5 6 1 7 2

4. The difference between 7 and 2 is 5

5. What is the difference between 8 and 5?1
What is the difference between 8 and 5? 2 3
The
difference
between 8 and 5 is 3 4 1 5 2 6 3 7 4
There are 3 more red blocks. 8 5

6. There are 4 more green blocks1
What is the
difference
between 2 and 6? 2 3 4
The
difference
is 4 1 5 2 6
There are 4 more green blocks

7. There are 8 more yellow blocks
What is the
difference
between 9 and 1? 1 2 3
The difference
between 9 and 1 is 8 4 5 6
There are 8 more yellow blocks 7 8 9 1

8. There are 7 more green blocks.1
What is the
difference
between 5 and 12? 2 3 4 5
The
difference
between 5 and 12 is 7 6 7 8 1 9 2
There are 7 more green blocks. 10 3 11 4 12 5

9. What is the difference between 4 and 10?9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1
What is the difference between
4 and 10?
The difference is 6
There are 6 more yellow blocks

10. 3 Now try these….. The difference between 6 and 2 is 6 5 4 3 2 1 2 111 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 3

11. Can you think of any other ways to find the difference?
Take the smaller number away from the bigger number
Count on from the smaller number