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Know Your Numbers: Counting Backwards

In this worksheet, students start with one number and count backwards to another (in a range between 50 and 0). They note down how many places they counted.

'Know Your Numbers: Counting Backwards' worksheet

Key stage:  KS 1

Year:  Year 2 Maths worksheets

Curriculum topic:   Number: Number and Place Value

Curriculum subtopic:   Solve Place Value Problems to 100

Difficulty level:  

Worksheet Overview

This worksheet is about counting back from one number to another.

 

Example

 

 

Starting with 32 count back to 15. 

How many did you count back?

 

Answer

 

Notice that:

32 - 15 = 17

32 - 17 = 15

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