Grade 3 Subtraction Across Zeros Worksheets
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Practice Worksheet
Grade 3 Subtraction Across Zeros Practice
Solve each problem. Show your work.
- 1.800 - 248 = _____
- 2.800 - 605 = _____
- 3.600 - 139 = _____
- 4.500 - 336 = _____
- 5.800 - 744 = _____
- 6.400 - 305 = _____
- 7.600 - 461 = _____
- 8.800 - 525 = _____
Show answer key
- Question 1: 552
- Question 2: 195
- Question 3: 461
- Question 4: 164
- Question 5: 56
- Question 6: 95
- Question 7: 139
- Question 8: 275
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About These Worksheets
Grade 3 students encounter across-zeros subtraction for the first time with three-digit numbers like 300 − 145, working through a single zero-chain borrow.
Subtraction across zeros worksheets target one of the most error-prone situations in elementary math: problems like 400 − 168, where borrowing cannot happen from the very next column because it contains a zero. Students must instead borrow from further left, creating a chain of trades that ripples across multiple zero columns before landing in the ones place.
Many students who are otherwise comfortable with regrouping get stuck here, because the usual "borrow from next door" rule seems to fail when that neighbour is a zero. These worksheets slow the process down, giving students repeated exposure to the zero-chain borrowing technique — trading a hundred for ten tens, then immediately trading one of those tens for ten ones — until the pattern becomes familiar rather than confusing.
Skills Practised
- Identifying subtraction problems where the minuend contains one or more zeros
- Borrowing across a chain of zero columns
- Regrouping a hundred into tens, then a ten into ones, in sequence
- Avoiding the common error of writing a zero as "nothing to borrow from"
- Checking answers to zero-borrowing problems using addition
Parent Tip: Talk through the zero-chain out loud step by step — "there's nothing in the tens, so we borrow from the hundreds first, then pass a ten down to the ones" — so your child hears the logic rather than memorizing a shortcut.