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🔢 Kindergarten math · Counting & Numbers

Read and write numbers to 20

First, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth. Count from the start of the line.

Worked example

Count from the left. What color is the third circle?
Answer: green
Count from the left: first, second, third. The third circle is green.

For grown-ups: Read and write numerals 0–20. Below: three problems to try with the worked answers, and a free printable sheet. Children can practise the same skill as a game, with no sign-up and no ads.

  • CCSS K.CC.A.3
What this practises, for teachers

Practices read and write numerals 0–20 (K.CC.A.3). A printable sheet with its answer key, worked answers on the page, no accounts.

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🖨️ Printable sheet and key

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Try three

  1. Count from the left. What color is the fourth circle?
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: orange
    Count from the left: first, second, third, fourth. The fourth circle is orange.
  2. Count from the left. What color is the seventh circle?
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: purple
    Count from the left: first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh. The seventh circle is purple.
  3. Count from the left. What color is the seventh circle?
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: red
    Count from the left: first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh. The seventh circle is red.

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Learn first: Count on from any number (K)

Name: ____________________Date: ____________Score: ____ / 12

Read and write numbers to 20 (Kindergarten)

  1. Count from the left. What color is the fourth circle?
  2. Count from the left. What color is the fifth circle?
  3. Count from the left. What color is the second circle?
  4. Count from the left. What color is the fourth circle?
  5. Count from the left. Which place is the orange circle? (There is only one orange circle.)
  6. Count from the left. Which place is the blue circle? (There is only one blue circle.)
  7. Count from the left. Which place is the yellow circle? (There is only one yellow circle.)
  8. Count from the left. What color is the second circle?
  9. Count from the left. Which place is the yellow circle? (There is only one yellow circle.)
  10. Count from the left. Which place is the blue circle? (There is only one blue circle.)
  11. Count from the left. Which place is the red circle? (There is only one red circle.)
  12. Count from the left. Which place is the red circle? (There is only one red circle.)

Answer key

  1. purple
  2. orange
  3. red
  4. green
  5. fourth
  6. sixth
  7. third
  8. purple
  9. sixth
  10. fourth
  11. tenth
  12. ninth

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