Using Manipulatives and Drawings to Solve Subtraction Problems | Cyberchase

Use manipulatives and drawings as strategies to solve subtraction word problems. In this video from Cyberchase, Harmony, Hacker’s niece, is stuck on a subtraction word problem. Students see Buzz and Delete try to help solve the problem by collecting and lining up heavy cyber rocks to compare two amounts. Harmony uses a different strategy by drawing symbols to model the problem.