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Count on from any number: Kindergarten math

Count on from any number. A free kindergarten lesson plan, a question set with answers and a printable sheet with its key. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students can do this: count on from any number.

Teach (10 min)

  • The number between 13 and 15 is 14.
  • After means one more. Before means one less.
  • Work one example on the board while students say each step aloud, then do one together.

Practise (15 min)

  • Students work the printable sheet in pairs, then alone.
  • Or practise it as a game with no sign-up: https://peabody.kids/math/numsense.k_beside?lesson=k-numsense-beside-1&at=K

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Three questions on a slip:
  • 1. What number comes just after 9?
  • 2. What number comes just before 9?
  • 3. What number comes just after 10?

Question set

10 questions that read in words, easiest first. Questions that need a picture are on the printable sheet below.

  1. What number comes just after 9?
  2. What number comes just before 9?
  3. What number comes just after 10?
  4. What number comes just before 16?
  5. What number comes between 17 and 19?
  6. What number comes just after 4?
  7. What number comes just before 17?
  8. What number comes just before 19?
  9. What number comes between 2 and 4?
  10. What number comes just after 11?
Answers
  1. 10
  2. 8
  3. 11
  4. 15
  5. 18
  6. 5
  7. 16
  8. 18
  9. 3
  10. 12

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Count on from any number (Kindergarten)

  1. What number comes just after 8?
  2. What number comes just before 7?
  3. What number comes just before 2?
  4. What number comes between 8 and 10?
  5. What number comes just after 4?
  6. What number comes just after 18?
  7. What number comes just before 58?
  8. What number comes just after 54?
  9. What number comes just after 14?
  10. What number comes just after 31?
  11. What number comes between 98 and 100?
  12. What number comes just after 22?
Key
  1. 9
  2. 6
  3. 1
  4. 9
  5. 5
  6. 19
  7. 57
  8. 55
  9. 15
  10. 32
  11. 99
  12. 23

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