Year 1 Composition of numbers 6 to 10 worksheet

“Counting numbers 6 to 10” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 1 maths unit “Composition of numbers 6 to 10”, for children aged 5 to 6, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 15 to 17 of the year, 15 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Counting numbers 6 to 10

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 1 · Maths · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can count groups of 6 to 10 things and match them to numerals.

A Look back3 min

1.
How many counters?
2.
Which number comes just after 4?
3.
3 + 2 =

B Watch me, then you4 min

Mia puts some pegs in a ten frame. How many are there?

Watch me

Touch each peg once and say the next number.

The last number I say is 8, so there are 8 pegs.

Count from the other end. You still get 8.

Now you

1.
How many counters?

C Your turn5 min

1.
How many counters?
2.
How many counters?
3.
How many counters?
4.
How many counters?

Say it out loud: What changes from one row to the next? What stays the same when you count?

D Spot the mistake2 min

Ben says: “I counted 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, so there are 6 counters.”

1.
How many counters are really there?

E Think deeper4 min

A messy pile of pebbles on a wooden kitchen table

1.
Put 9 small things from a pile into a line. Count from one end, then from the other. What do you notice?

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Counting numbers 6 to 10 · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. 5

2. 5

3. 5

B

1. 6 If your child says 5, one counter was missed. Touch each counter once as you count.

C

1. 6

2. 7 If your child says 6, the last counter was not counted. Say the last number name while touching the last counter.

3. 8 If your child says 9, one counter was counted twice. Tick each counter once it has been counted.

4. 9

D

1. 7 Ben stopped one too early and missed the last counter. Ask your child to touch each counter as they count.

E

1. Look for: Says both ends give 9 and that the total stays the same when you count in a different order.

Words to use

Say“Touch each one as you say its number, and stop when you reach the last one.”

Instead of“Just tell them the answer.”

After the sheet

Put 9 dried beans or buttons on a plate, count them in a line, then count again from the other end.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

14 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Five and a bit(with a plan)
Greater or Less?(with a plan)
Five and a Bit Splits(with a plan)
Five and a bit on a number line(with a plan)
Where 6 to 9 Live(with a plan)
Guessing on the number line(with a plan)
Odd or Even? Sorting Numbers(with a plan)
Jumping in Twos(with a plan)
Odd and even pairs(with a plan)
Odd and even parts(with a plan)
Splitting 6 and 7(with a plan)
Splitting 8 and 9(with a plan)
Splitting 6 to 10(with a plan)
Find the missing part(with a plan)

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