Find missing numbers between 20 and 100
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use a range of strategies to help find missing numbers on a number track.
Key learning points
- You can find missing numbers on number tracks in different ways.
- You can count forwards or backwards to find a number.
- You can look at the number before or after the missing number to help find it.
- You can find missing numbers on a number track by looking at the numbers it comes between.
- You can use the patterns in numbers to work out new facts.
Keywords
After - A number that is after another comes later when you count.
Before - A number that is before another comes earlier when you count.
Between - A number that is between two others is in the space that separates them.
Strategy - A method chosen to find something out.
Common misconception
Difficulty finding missing numbers when more than one number missing is from a number track.
Encourage and model how to visualise numbers using the numbers that can be seen.
Teacher tip
Focus on finding missing numbers using the patterns within a decade as practised in learning cycle one.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Aisha is counting forwards, she says 26. What number will she say next?
Q2.When the numbers become less, you know you are counting __________.
Q3.Sort these numbers in the order you would say if counting forwards.
Q4.Sort these numbers in the order you would say them if counting backwards.
Q5.Lucas is thinking of a number in the seventies. Use the clue he gives to work out the number.
Q6.Match the numbers to the correct decade.
47
56
65
74
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Complete the following: 6 is __________ the number 7.
Q2.Which of these numbers is between 30 and 40 on the number track?
Q3. Complete the stem sentence. I know that the number after 3 is 4 so I know that the number after 23 is .
Q4.Match the numbers to the correct number that comes before it on a number track
46
48
50
Q5.Use the patterns within the decade to help you complete the following. The number after 23 is 24, so the number after 33 is ___..
Q6.Use the patterns on the number tracks to help you find out the number before 38.
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