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Year 1

Find missing numbers between 20 and 100

I can use a range of strategies to help find missing numbers on a number track.

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Year 1

Find missing numbers between 20 and 100

I can use a range of strategies to help find missing numbers on a number track.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. You can find missing numbers on number tracks in different ways.
  2. You can count forwards or backwards to find a number.
  3. You can look at the number before or after the missing number to help find it.
  4. You can find missing numbers on a number track by looking at the numbers it comes between.
  5. 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.

Focus on finding missing numbers using the patterns within a decade as practised in learning cycle one.
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Lesson video

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6 Questions

Q1.
Aisha is counting forwards, she says 26. What number will she say next?
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28
25
Correct answer: 27
Q2.
When the numbers become less, you know you are counting __________.
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forwards
Correct answer: backwards
Q3.
Sort these numbers in the order you would say if counting forwards.
1 - 60
2 - 61
3 - 62
4 - 63
Q4.
Sort these numbers in the order you would say them if counting backwards.
1 - 93
2 - 92
3 - 91
4 - 90
Q5.
Lucas is thinking of a number in the seventies. Use the clue he gives to work out the number.
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76
Correct answer: 79
80
Q6.
Match the numbers to the correct decade.
Correct Answer:the forties,47

47

Correct Answer:the fifties,56

56

Correct Answer:the sixties,65

65

Correct Answer:the seventies,74

74

6 Questions

Q1.
Complete the following: 6 is __________ the number 7.
Correct answer: before
after
between
Q2.
Which of these numbers is between 30 and 40 on the number track?
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27
Correct answer: 37
47
Q3.
Complete the stem sentence. I know that the number after 3 is 4 so I know that the number after 23 is .
Correct Answer: 24, twenty four
Q4.
Match the numbers to the correct number that comes before it on a number track
Correct Answer:47,46

46

Correct Answer:49,48

48

Correct Answer:51,50

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 ___..
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Correct answer: 34
32
22
Q6.
Use the patterns on the number tracks to help you find out the number before 38.
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39
Correct answer: 37