Tracing Numbers 13-16 Worksheet for Preschoolers
Tracing the numbers 13 through 16 gives children practice with the trickier teen-number range, where number names and digit order don't always match intuitively, fourteen starts with the digit that comes second, for example, making handwriting practice here also a subtle exercise in number sense. For ages three to five, saying each number aloud while tracing helps cement both its written form and its place in the counting sequence.
Curriculum
How to use this worksheet
Have your child trace the number 13 in the box provided, saying 'thirteen' aloud as they form each stroke. Move to 14, 15, and 16 in the same way, tracing each number while saying its name out loud before moving to the next. Encourage them to notice how each traced number looks slightly different, comparing the shapes of the '1' at the start of each one. Once all four numbers are traced, have your child count aloud from 13 to 16 one more time, pointing to each number as they say it.
Materials needed
- Pencil
- Crayons
Extension activities
- •Have your child count a group of 13 to 16 small objects, like blocks or crayons, to connect the numbers to real quantities.
- •Ask your child to draw each number independently on a separate sheet of paper without tracing.
- •Use the numbers to create simple addition or subtraction problems, like '13 plus 1' or '16 minus 1.'
- •Play a number-recognition game, calling out a number between 13 and 16 and having your child find and point to it.
Tips for parents and teachers
Encourage your child to say each number aloud as they trace it, since the teen numbers are notoriously easy to mix up, thirteen and thirty, for instance, and hearing the correct name repeatedly helps prevent that confusion. Provide positive reinforcement and praise their efforts, especially since this numeral range is genuinely harder to master than the numbers one through ten.
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Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
Every RaisoActive worksheet is designed and checked by the founder before publishing.
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