How it works
- Pick your numbers: 0 to 5, 0 to 10, the teens, or any you choose.
- Choose a size and handwriting style. The sheet on the right updates as you go.
- Decide on tracing only, or trace then write with empty space at the end of each row.
- Download and print. All the numbers come out in one PDF.
Forming numbers the right way
Most numbers start at the top, just like letters. Children who start a 5 at the bottom or draw an 8 as two circles find numbers harder to write quickly later on. The start dot shows exactly where to put the pencil, and the arrow shows the first move. For 4 and 5, which take two strokes, the numbers 1 and 2 show the order.
Ideas for number practice
Count it, then write it
Before tracing a number, have children count out that many counters, blocks or claps. Writing a number means more when it stands for a quantity they just made.
Watch for reversals
Reversing 2, 3, 5, 7 and 9 is common and normal in Kindergarten. Extra practice with start dots on just those numbers helps.
Teen numbers
Say “ten and three more” for 13. The ten frame worksheets show the same idea in pictures.
Provincial curriculum links
- BC KNumber concepts to 10, including linking sets to numerals and subitizing.
- BC Grade 1Number concepts to 20, using base 10 and “10 and some more”.
- ON Grade 1Working with numbers up to 50.
The box beside each number, with pictures in rows of five, matches BC’s focus on a sense of 5 and 10 from Kindergarten. Thinking of a teen number as 10 and some more comes from BC’s Grade 1 content, so the 11 to 20 set fits there and early in Ontario’s Grade 1.
In French Immersion classes the number words change (sept, huit, neuf), but the numerals and their strokes stay the same, so the tracing rows work in both languages. Say the number word in the language of the class as children trace.
Summarized in our own words from the BC Mathematics curriculum (K–1) and Ontario’s overview of The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1–8: Mathematics (2020).
