International audienceThis methodological oriented contribution is about the integration in two ordinaries school classes of a didactic engineering related to the subtraction, developed by Brousseau in the 80s. More specifically, this article focuses on the importance of a priori analysis of the tasks effectively proposed to students in the process of analyzing ordinary teaching/learning practices. Research has highlighted two key moments conditioning the engineering process: the first consisting in bringing out the mathematical proof of a result resulting from a subtraction, the second in using the proof to construct and give meaning to an operating algorithm. These two key moments are subject to different interpretations leading the teach...