Maria Penilla, Stephanie Gonzalez, Ashly Gutierrez,Jessica Martinez

Professor Delaby
Math 107-01
22 February 2016
Journal #4

Example #1

The standard algorithm consists of the solving the problem accordingly:

First you solve 7-5 in Next, you would try to solve the Now, we have 120-30.
the ones section which subtraction in the tens place which would Because this is
give us 2. be the 2 and the 3. Technically it is 20-30 possible, we can now
(because it is the tens place). Because 20- finish subtracting as
30 is not possible we need to regroup a set normal. We would get
of ten from the hundreds spot. We do this 90, so we can now put
by subtracting a one from the hundreds 9 in the tens spot to
spot. represent 9 sets of 10
and now we would get
our final answer.
12 127
127 127 - 35
- 35 - 35 92
2 2

In solving this subtraction problem we do so by not using the word borrow. Instead what is

used, is the term regrouping. Regrouping is not the same as borrowing when regrouping

numbers it is important to know the place value. Borrowing would be incorrect to say because

nowhere do we give back what we borrowed. We use the term regrouping because we do

exactly that, we regroup a set of ten or a set of ones to make a ten and move it to the next place

value.
I will demonstrate this problem using base-10 block diagrams

Example #2

The subtraction algorithm consists of subtracting first the ones, then the tens, then the

hundreds and so on, and we can regroup when is necessary. We cannot say that we will borrow

anything from any place value because we are not borrowing we are actually taking, so instead

we will call it regrouping. When we find the difference between two numbers we put the largest

number on top and the smallest on the bottom. For example, when we find the difference

between 473-95, we put the biggest number on top and the smallest on the bottom. First, we

lined them up in their place value. We cannot subtract 3-5 because it will give us a negative

number.We have to regroup from the 7 tens. We have to subtract one set of ten from the 7 tens,

so now we have 6 tens and we now have 13 ones. We can now subtract 13-5, and we will get 8.

Now that we have completed subtracting in the ones place we will move to the tens place. We

have 6 (or 60) and 9 (or 90). Once again it is impossible for us to subtract a bigger number from

a smaller one. In other words, we cannot take 6 tens from 9 tens because it will give us a

negative number. We once again are going to have to regroup, except this time we are going to

regroup a set from the hundreds spot. We have to take a set from the 4 hundreds and add it to the

tens place. Now, we would have 3 hundreds and 16 tens. Then we subtract 16-9 and I get 7 tens.

Finally, we are in the hundreds place. We are left with 3 hundreds and nothing is subtracting

from it. Therefore, we can just say it is 3 hundreds subtracted by zero which would give us 3

hundreds. SEE BELOW FOR STEP BY STEP PROCESS.

1.We put the biggest 2. Because we cannot subtract 5 3. Now that we are subtracting
number on top and the from 3 we must regroup a set of in the tens place, we must
smallest on the bottom. tens from the tens place. This subtract 9 from 6. Or rather we
would now give us 6 tens and 13 must subtract 90 from 60. Of
ones. We can now subtract 5 course this is not possible so we
from 13. must regroup one set of
hundreds to a set of tens. We
would now have 3 hundreds
and 16 tens. Now, we subtract
and would get 7 to be put down
in the tens place.
47 3 6 13 16
- 9 5 47 3 3 6 13
- 9 5 47 3
8 - 9 5
78

4. Finally, we are in the hundreds place. We Our final answer is:

are left with 3 hundreds and nothing is
subtracting from it. Therefore, we can just
say it is 3 hundreds subtracted by zero which
would give us 3 hundreds.
378
16
3 6 13
47 3
-095
378

Example #3

Compensate
563-372= 563-360-12= 203-12= 191

The compensation method consist of rounding off to subtract. For instance in this problem 563-

372, we will instead start off by subtracting 563-360-12. This will allow us to subtract without

regrouping.

Missing addend

563 ----> 372 ---> 372

-372 + ? + 191
563 563
For this example we use an alternative method called missing addend. In this method, instead of

subtracting we use addition. So the question here is what number do I need when when adding

372 that will give me the sum of 563. We first start in the ones place, and work our way all the

way to the hundreds place.

Subtract in each place, with negatives

 563
- 372
200
- 10
1
191

For this example we start off by subtracting in the hundreds place, 500-300 = 200. We proceed to

60-70= -10. Next is 3-2=1. At the end we 200-10+1 which gives us 191. This method allows us

to subtract based on the placement of the numbers. It allows us to see what is really happening

when we subtract each part.

In section 2.4 we also had to do problems that had to deal with partial products, lattice

algorithm and the area model. These problems were easy to do because all I had to do was

basically add at the end. For partial products for example we had to multiply going down.

EXAMPLE 4

12
x3
6
+30
36

When we did it this way we had to multiply 2 and 3 in the ones spot, which gave us 6. Then we
need to multiply the 1 in the tens , which is actually ten, by the 3 in the ones place. In other

words we need to multiply 3 times 10. This would give us 30. We can now add the two answers

we got which would give us a total answer of 36. We must always remember that we have to

multiply every number on the top by every number on the bottom. We must do this because we

are really multiplying multiple numbers combined. For example, when we multiply 12 by 3, we

are really multiplying 10 by 3 and 2 by 3 and then adding. The one that informs really difficult to

understand was how to do the area for each. I knew how to plug in the numbers inside the box

but I didn't know in which way to find the answer.