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Grade 1 · Subtraction

Garden seedlings: remove a part and recount

At a school garden, 10 seedlings are available and 0 are taken away. Change the controls and explain what the animation reveals.

Predict what will happen, press Play, then pause and explain what changed. Every control also works without playback.

Watch the relationship

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Garden seedlings: remove a part and recount. Removed so far: 0. Left now: 10. Left at the end: 1010 − 0 = 10Remaining + removed = the original whole.
The quantities are invented for this investigation. Controls change the model rather than real-world records. Displayed decimals are rounded; whole-number counts are exact.

Starts paused. Play once, pause anywhere, or use Step to inspect the mathematics. Playback stops when this panel leaves the screen.

Make it your experiment

Change one value. Notice what follows.

The controls adjust the model. Numbers below describe the current frame. Decimals are rounded.

Removed so far
0
Left now
10
Left at the end
10

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From experiment to screen.

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Understand what you are seeing

The idea behind the motion.

At a school garden, 10 seedlings are available and 0 are taken away. Subtraction separates an original whole into the removed part and the remaining part. The remaining quantity must be counted after the removal, not by recounting the crossed-out objects. At the end, 10 remain. Adding back the removed 0 reconstructs the original 10.

A relationship to keep

10 − 0 = 10

Read the symbols alongside the explanation. A diagram shows the relationship; the assumptions tell you when it applies.

  1. STEP 1

    Read the starting situation

    At a school garden, 10 seedlings are available and 0 are taken away. Identify what each number measures before changing a control; the worked example refers to these starting values.

  2. STEP 2

    Follow the mathematical change

    Move the timeline to increase the removed amount. The pale or crossed-out section records what has left; the colored section records what remains. Pause on an intermediate frame and compare the picture with the live readouts.

  3. STEP 3

    Explain and test the relationship

    At the end, 10 remain. Adding back the removed 0 reconstructs the original 10. Change one input, predict its effect, and test whether the same relationship still works.

Your turn to explain

Make a prediction. Test your reasoning.

Garden seedlings: use the original situation. At a school garden, 10 seedlings are available and 0 are taken away. Return one removed object when possible. What remains then?

Use the values specified in the question. Reset restores the initial values for this investigation.

Compare your explanation

Nothing was removed, so none can be returned. The collection still contains 10.

Work through a full lesson

Connect the animation to a worked example and practice questions.

Grade 1 · Algebra

Subtraction removes a part

Use subtraction to describe items leaving a group.