Motivate your students to learn their subtraction facts within 20 by using this set of subtraction quizzes and tracking sheets. Students will graph their scores on their tracking sheet each time they take a timed test. Use the bulletin kite as a way to motivate students to improve their scores.

What is included?

• 8 subtraction fact quizzes
• 1 subtraction facts tracking sheet
• How I use High Flying Facts
• We're Flying High with Our Subtraction Facts poster (in color and black & white)
• Blank kites for students to color
• Kites in color to print

What subtraction strategies are covered?

• Near Doubles
• Doubles
• Minus 10
• Minus 1
• Minus 2
• Making Ten
• Make Ten to subtract
• Mixed Review

How do you use the kites?

I gave each student a kite to decorate.

They colored and wrote math facts on the kites.

I hung the kites up on a wall in the classroom.

(For this product, I also included kites that are colored if you want to skip the step of having your students color their own kites.)

Each week my students take a timed fact test.

They have 2 minutes to complete 25 problems.

After I grade the tests, the students graph the number of correct answers.

When students get a higher number on their graph, they receive a piece of string to attach to their kite.

The goal is that students get a higher number of facts correct each week and earn a piece of string.

When students get 25 facts correctly, their goal is to beat their previous speed.

If they complete the facts faster than they did the previous week, they will earn a piece of string for their kites.

Aligned with Common Core State Standards:

1.OA.6: Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten (e.g., 8 + 6 = 8 + 2 + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14); decomposing a number leading to a ten (e.g., 13 - 4 = 13 - 3 - 1 = 10 - 1 = 9); using the relationship between addition and subtraction (e.g., knowing that 8 + 4 = 12, one knows 12 - 8 = 4); and creating equivalent but easier or known sums (e.g., adding 6 + 7 by creating the known equivalent 6 + 6 + 1 = 12 + 1 = 13).

2.OA.2: Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies. By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.

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