Kindergarten Number Worksheets: Missing Numbers, Before and After

These Kindergarten number worksheets help a child learn the order of numbers to ten and twenty. On the missing-number pages a short row of numbers has a gap, and the child writes the number that belongs, filling in the count up to ten and then to twenty. Before-and-after pages give one number and ask which comes just before and just after it, and the stuck-in-the-middle pages ask for the number between two others. A countdown set has the child count backward from ten, like a rocket blasting off. Filling in missing numbers, finding the number before and after, and counting both forward and back are the first number-line skills a young child meets. The numbers are large and the rows are short, so a child can say the count out loud, find the gap, and write the number without any rush.

In this set a child works along a short line of numbers, filling gaps and naming neighbours. They write a missing number, say which number comes before and after, find the one in the middle, and count down from ten. The rows are short and the numbers are clear, so building a sense of order feels calm and steady.

When your child can fill in missing numbers and name the number before and after, you can print more of these number worksheets as a PDF and keep going on paper. Everything is free, with no sign-up and no account, and there are no timers or scores to hurry a careful count. A gap left blank is just a reason to say the count again. The Grade 1 number worksheets move on to the hundreds chart and skip counting, and you can browse the full set of printable number worksheets whenever you like.