Missing Numbers 1–20 – Fill-In Counting Games

Name: Missing Numbers 1–20 – Fill-In Counting Games
SKU: fill-in-the-missing-numbers-1-20-missing-numbers-1-20-games
Price: 19.99 CAD
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Six rows of number groupings from 1 through 20 appear on every page, with certain numbers left blank for students to fill in.

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Grades: Junior Kindergarten–Kindergarten
File type: PDF
Preparation: Print ready

Updated Jun 21, 2023

Subject: Numbers, Early Math, Math
Topic: Missing Numbers 1-20, Missing Numbers 1-20 Worksheets
Resource types: Games
Preparation: Print ready

From the author

About this resource

Practice missing numbers within 1–20 with ten printable worksheets. Each page contains twelve four-position counting sequences in six rows, with several numerals left for students to write.

Model how to use a printed number to count forward or backward, then choose a page for practice. Learners should be comfortable counting to ten before working across the full range. The PDF is not editable and has no completed answer key.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Identify the missing number in a short cluster of numbers within the 1-20 range.
Recall and write numerals from 0-20 to complete a given number sequence.
Practice number recognition across ten pages of independent, non-repeating clusters.

Teaching tips

Have students say each surrounding number aloud before writing the missing one, to reinforce the connection between counting sequence and the written numeral.
Assign one page per session as a quick warm-up, since each of the 10 pages is a complete, independent round of practice.
Use with students who have already mastered counting to 10, per the file's own suggested starting point, before moving them into the full 1-20 range.

Skills covered

Missing-number identification — students find the blank spot in a printed cluster of 2-4 numbers and determine what number is missing.
Numeral writing 0-20 — students write the correct missing numeral by hand in each blank.
Repeated independent practice — ten non-repeating pages give students multiple rounds of the same skill without duplicate content.

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