What shall we take away from 6 to get 4?
Take out your weighing scale and put 6 blocks on one side and a 4 cuisenaire bar on the other side.
Now take away one block at a time to balance
So how many blocks did we remove ( take away) from 6 to make a 4?
Now write the equation like this in your notebooks:
6 - 2 = 4
What you have been doing on the left hand side is “taking away” and we call it “Subtraction” in math and is shown by a “-” minus sign and since they are balanced, we use “equal” = symbol.