Skip Counting
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Fill in the missing numbers. Say the count out loud as you go.
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Skip counting on a number line
Skip counting shown on a number line rather than as a list, so a child sees the even spacing of the count. The first and last tick are always labelled, so there is an anchor at both ends.
- Eleven ticks per line, evenly spaced
- The first and last number are never blank
- Kindergarten lines always start at zero
- Matching answer key listing the missing numbers
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What’s on the sheet
- Number lines with marked intervals and several blanks to fill
- Steps of 2, 5 or 10 depending on the difficulty
- Number lines drawn wide enough to write between the ticks
- A matching answer key
What each difficulty means
Difficulty is a real change to the numbers or the layout, not a label.
Gentle start
Count by 2, with one number missing.
Just right
Count by 2, 5 or 10, with two missing.
Extra challenge
Count by 3, 4, 5 or 10 from a non-zero start, with three missing.
Grades this covers
Tap a grade you can use for a page of everything a child that age can practise here.
The number line does work a list of numbers cannot
Written as a row — 5, 10, __, 20 — skip counting is a pattern to be spotted. Drawn on a number line, it is a distance, and the equal gaps between the ticks show why the pattern holds. Children who find the row version confusing often get the line version immediately.
It also sets up everything that comes later: measurement, fractions between whole numbers, and negative numbers all live on a line.
Counting by fives and tens is the multiplication head start
The five and ten times tables are almost entirely learned before a child ever hears the word multiplication, purely from skip counting. Time spent here is time you do not spend on times tables in Grade 3.
Twos, fives and tens are the ones worth automating. The others are better learned as facts than as counts.
Questions
How is this different from missing numbers?
Missing numbers prints sequences as text. This draws a real number line, so the child sees the spacing of the count.
Which counts are covered?
2s, 5s and 10s on the everyday settings, adding 3s and 4s on the challenge setting.
More practice to try
Addition worksheets you can fill to the lineSubtraction worksheets, with or without borrowingMultiplication facts, at the range you chooseDivision worksheets that divide evenlyCompare the numbers: greater, less, or equalFill in the missing number in the sequence
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