Counting in Sequence Assessment Worksheet

Counting on from a number that is not one is a bigger leap than it looks, and this counting in sequence assessment worksheet is built to show you exactly where a child stands. A first grader who can rattle off “one, two, three” from the start is not necessarily able to begin at 46 and keep going, because reciting the count and understanding the count are two different things. Each row here drops the child into the middle of a sequence, hands them a few of the numbers, and asks for the ones that are missing — so the page reports on real number-sequence knowledge rather than on memory of a song.

This first grade counting worksheet gives seven boxed number rows. The first four count forward by ones from 5, 27, 46 and 68, with three numbers missing from each row in a different pattern, so a child cannot fall into a rhythm and fill the same position every time. The last three rows skip count — by twos, by fives, and by tens starting at 23, off the decade, so the tens row asks for ten more than any number instead of the ten-times table. Print it, read the two direction lines aloud, and let the child write each missing number in its box. It works as a beginning-of-year baseline, a mid-unit check, a math-centre task, or a quick reteach page before a test.

What’s Included

• 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
• Answer key
• 7 number rows with 21 missing numbers to write

There are three reasons this counting in sequence assessment worksheet helps a child learn the skill. First, every row starts somewhere new, so the child has to find their place in the number system each time rather than counting up from one. Second, the missing numbers sit in a different pattern in every row — sometimes first, sometimes last, sometimes two in a row — which means a child has to count both forward and backward from the numbers they were given. Third, putting counting by ones and skip counting on one page makes the comparison visible: the child sees that the same kind of row can step by one, by two, by five or by ten, and that noticing the step is the first thing to do.

Teachers and parents can get a lot of mileage out of these rows. Read a completed row aloud together and clap on every number so the pattern is heard as well as seen. Cover a row with a strip of paper and ask what comes next, or what came just before. Use a hundred chart alongside the page for a child who is still unsure, then take it away and try the next row without it. Grade it as a quick check and note which step size slowed the child down — that one number is usually the whole lesson plan for the next day.

Related Resources

• Counting Ahead and Counting Back Worksheet
• Counting Tens Worksheet
• Thanksgiving Skip Counting Worksheet
• Counting By Twos Song by Have Fun Teaching