← Number and place value

Year 1 · Maths

Count out from a bigger group

Counting out a number of things from a bigger group, up to 20, and stopping at that number.

Print a new sheetOpens a PDF. Every sheet has different questions.

New sheets start on target. You can also print an easier one or a harder one.

What your child will see

The whole sheet as it prints. Every new sheet has different numbers.

Colour the number of balloons on the sign.

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Two minutes at home

Ask
How did you know when to stop colouring?
Play
Ask for a number of things: "Can you give me 13 pieces of pasta?" Count them out together and stop at 13.

Common mistakes and how to help

  • Coloured every balloon: they may count the whole group instead of stopping at the number asked for.

    Try this: Ask for a number of spoons from the drawer and count them out together. Say "stop!" when you reach the number.

  • One more or one fewer than the number: a balloon was counted twice or skipped.

    Try this: Say each number as you colour that balloon, and stop as soon as you say the number asked for.

  • Coloured 10 when the number was a teen: counting on past 10 may not feel sure yet.

    Try this: Count past ten together on the stairs or with pasta: "…9, 10, 11, 12, 13".

  • Coloured only the ones, as in 4 for 14: they may have read the 4 and not the 1, which stands for ten.

    Try this: Say "fourteen is ten and four". Count out ten, then four more, and put them together.

  • The answer is a long way off: they may have lost track of how many they had coloured.

    Try this: Say the number out loud before starting, then count out loud as each balloon is coloured.

Curriculum links

  • Count, read and write numbers to 100 in numerals; count in multiples of 2s, 5s and 10s.

    National curriculum in England: mathematics programmes of study · Year 1 Mathematics: Number and place value

  • Identify and represent numbers using objects and pictorial representations including the number line, and use the language of: equal to, more than, less than (fewer), most, least.

    National curriculum in England: mathematics programmes of study · Year 1 Mathematics: Number and place value

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