Before and After Numbers Worksheet for Preschoolers
This worksheet builds number sequencing skills in children ages 4-5 by asking them to figure out which number comes immediately before and immediately after a given number. Understanding a number's position relative to its neighbors is an essential precursor to skip counting, addition, and subtraction, since it trains children to think of numbers as an ordered line rather than isolated symbols.
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Month 11: Learning & Development | Ages 5-6
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Curriculum
- Number Sense > Number Sequencing
How to use this worksheet
Look at the number in the middle of each set together and have your child count out loud from one up to that number, which helps them find what comes right before it. Ask 'What number comes just before this one?' and have your child write it in the blank space, then repeat the process asking what comes just after. Work through several sets this way before letting your child try a set independently, checking their answers together afterward.
Materials needed
- Pencil
- Eraser
Extension activities
- 1Have your child create their own before-and-after number problems for you to solve.
- 2Use blocks, beads, or buttons lined up in a row and ask your child to point to what's before and after a chosen number.
- 3Play a number line hopscotch game outside, calling out numbers and asking what comes next.
- 4Look at house numbers or page numbers in a book and identify the number that comes before or after.
Written by
Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
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