Subtraction

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SUBTRACTION. The act of withholding or detaining anything unlawfully.

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Rewrite the digits in descending order as the minuend, and in ascending order as the subtrahend.
Investigating subtraction
Fuchs et al., 2003): Sums to 18, Minuends to 12, and Minuends to 18.
Child-level predictors of responsiveness to evidence-based mathematics intervention
So, just as it does today, utilizing the current law basis as the minuend in the computation of loss would prevent the taxpayer from having a second opportunity to receive the tax benefit of unclaimed allowable depreciation deductions in the form of a tax loss whether or not they provided tax benefits.
The untold story of Crane v. Commissioner reveals an inconvenient tax truth: useless depreciation deductions cause global basis erosion to bait a hazardous tax trap for unwitting taxpayers
Subtraction problem with drawings and the unknown in the minuend.
The degree of abstraction in solving addition and subtraction problems
One of the most common errors students make with number operations relate to the subtraction of one number from the other where one of the digits in the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding digit in the minuend (see Young & Shea, 1981).
Fostering mathematical understanding through physical and virtual manipulatives
1585 Minuend - 742 Subtrahend 843 Difference Trading (Borrowing)
Chapter 3 Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
Figure 2 Subtraction strategies that the students used Subtraction Strategies Our Interpretations and Descriptions Counting Back Beginning with the minuend, count back the number you are subtracting; we would see 9 - 3 and think, "9 ...
Learning strategies for addition and subtraction facts: the road to fluency and the license to think
As the student types the minuend of a subtraction problem, boxes on the number line automatically turn yellow to represent the quantity; as the student types the subtrahend, black Xs are drawn through yellow boxes to represent the removal of that quantity.
A framework for remediating number combination deficits
9.825 Minuend - 5.450 Subtrahend 4.375 Difference Note that the decimal point in the difference goes under the decimal point in the minuend and subtrahend.
Chapter 4 Fractions, decimals, ratios, and percents
The player with four cards subtracts the three-digit number, or subtrahend, from the four-digit number, or minuend. If the answer is odd, the player with four cards wins a point.
Computation capers. (Math by the Month)
This rule, however, does not help teachers understand the changes made to the minuend or the subtrahend.
Developing teachers' computational fluency: examples in subtraction
To solve the same problem, 34 -- 18, using equal addition, an equivalent problem is created by adding the same number to the minuend and subtrahend.
Culture in the Curriculum: Enriching Numeration and Number Operations

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