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Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:

This challenge is about finding the difference between numbers which have the same tens digit.

Here are two examples where I’ve decided to use numbers which have two tens:



The number above is always the difference between the two beneath it.

Can you find different pairs of numbers with a difference of 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 ... and so on?

Can you find more than one way of doing it?
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