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The next number is one more: Kindergarten math

Each next number is one more. 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: each next number is one more.

Teach (10 min)

  • One more means count up one. One less means count back one.
  • 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_onemore?lesson=k-numsense-onemore-1&at=K

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Three questions on a slip:
  • 1. What is one more than 2?
  • 2. What is one less than 11?
  • 3. What is one less than 15?

Question set

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

  1. What is one more than 2?
  2. What is one less than 11?
  3. What is one less than 15?
  4. What is one less than 14?
  5. What is one more than 11?
  6. What is one more than 5?
  7. What is one less than 12?
  8. What is one less than 11?
  9. What is one less than 17?
  10. What is one less than 13?
Answers
  1. 3
  2. 10
  3. 14
  4. 13
  5. 12
  6. 6
  7. 11
  8. 10
  9. 16
  10. 12

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

The next number is one more (Kindergarten)

  1. What is one more than 14? Here are 14.
  2. What is one more than 5? Here are 5.
  3. What is one more than 2?
  4. What is one more than 14?
  5. What is one less than 13?
  6. What is one less than 7?
  7. What is one less than 14?
  8. What is one more than 5?
  9. What is one more than 17?
  10. What is one less than 2?
  11. What is one more than 15?
  12. What is one less than 4?
Key
  1. 15
  2. 6
  3. 3
  4. 15
  5. 12
  6. 6
  7. 13
  8. 6
  9. 18
  10. 1
  11. 16
  12. 3

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