Before and After Numbers Worksheet: Counting Bananas!

How to use this worksheet

Look at the first given number together and ask your child what number comes right before it, then what number comes right after it, saying the full sequence out loud (for example, 'four, five, six'). Have your child write the before and after numbers in the blank spaces provided. Next, have them count out and color that many bananas to match the number they just wrote, checking that the banana count matches the numeral. Repeat the process for each number sequence on the page, encouraging your child to say the sequence aloud each time before writing.

Materials needed

• Pencil
• Crayons

Extension activities

• 1Practice counting forward and backward out loud in the car or during a walk, stopping at random numbers to ask what comes next.
• 2Use real bananas or banana stickers to build physical number sequences on the table.
• 3Play a 'what comes before and after' game using house numbers or page numbers in a book.
• 4Create a number line on the floor with sticky notes and have your child hop to the number before or after one you call out.
• 5Draw your own fruit and write a new before-and-after number sequence to solve.