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1 Let's look together
After 19 comes 20. After 29 comes 30. The counting pattern keeps going.
We can start anywhere. To count backwards, say the numbers in the other order. Look at the tens change as we cross a ten.
Look, point and talk with your adult.
2 Watch how I do it
I start at 28: 28, 29, 30, 31, 32. Backwards from 32: 32, 31, 30, 29, 28.
3 Your turn
Fill the gaps: 97, 98, __, 100. Now count backwards: 42, 41, __, __.
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Let's check together
99; then 40, 39.
4 Try it away from the page
An adult chooses a starting number up to 95. Count five steps on. Then count back. Read and write the numerals you say.
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Adult notes · prerequisites, safety and coverage
Prerequisite: secure 0–20. Use bundles of ten and a hundred chart. Practise each decade, including 99 to 100; one example is not mastery.
Use large counters, blocks and paper before symbols. Revisit a lesson until the child can show and explain the idea. Numbers grow from 0–10 to 20, then 100; these pages are not a one-sitting course.
Count forwards and backwards across 100 from different starting points.
Represent, read and write numerals to 100; count in twos, fives and tens.