Year 1 Maths: Count up and down to find the next number – up to 10

Understanding Counting Up and Down

Hello, class! Today, we are going to learn how to count up and down to find the next number up to 10. This means we will practice saying numbers in order and finding which number comes next when we count.

What Does “Counting Up” Mean?

Counting up means starting from a number and going higher. For example, if we start at 1, we can count up like this:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

When we reach 10, we stop because that is the highest number we are using today.

What Does “Counting Down” Mean?

Counting down is the opposite! It means starting from a number and going lower. For example, if we start at 10, we can count down like this:

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

When we reach 1, we stop because that is the lowest number we are using today.

Key Rules for Counting

1. Always start with a number.
2. When counting up, add 1 to the number you are on.
3. When counting down, subtract 1 from the number you are on.

Tips and Tricks

• Use your fingers: You can use your fingers to help you count. For example, if you want to count up from 3, hold up 3 fingers and then say 4, 5, 6.
• Practice with games: Play counting games with your friends or family. It can be fun to see who can count the fastest!
• Sing counting songs: There are many songs that help you count. Singing them can make counting easier and more enjoyable.

Questions to Practice Counting

Easy Level Questions

1. What number comes after 1?
2. What number comes before 2?
3. Count up from 3 to 5. What are the numbers?
4. What number comes after 4?
5. What number comes before 5?
6. Count down from 6 to 4. What are the numbers?
7. What number comes after 7?
8. What number comes before 8?
9. Count up from 2 to 4. What are the numbers?
10. What number comes after 9?
11. What number comes before 10?
12. Count down from 5 to 3. What are the numbers?
13. What number comes after 3?
14. What number comes before 4?
15. Count up from 1 to 2. What are the numbers?
16. What number comes after 6?
17. What number comes before 7?
18. Count down from 8 to 6. What are the numbers?
19. What number comes after 2?
20. What number comes before 3?

Medium Level Questions

1. Count up from 1 to 10. What are the numbers?
2. Count down from 10 to 1. What are the numbers?
3. What number comes after 2 and before 4?
4. What number comes before 6 and after 5?
5. Count up from 4 to 8. What are the numbers?
6. Count down from 9 to 5. What are the numbers?
7. What number comes after 5 and before 7?
8. What number comes before 8 and after 6?
9. Count from 3 to 7. What are the numbers?
10. What number comes after 1 and before 9?
11. Count down from 7 to 3. What are the numbers?
12. What number comes after 4 and before 5?
13. Count up from 2 to 6. What are the numbers?
14. What number comes before 10 and after 9?
15. Count down from 6 to 1. What are the numbers?
16. Count from 5 to 10. What are the numbers?
17. What number comes after 3 and before 5?
18. What number comes before 4 and after 3?
19. Count up from 1 to 5. What are the numbers?
20. What number comes after 8 and before 10?

Hard Level Questions

1. What number comes after 1, 2, 3, and 4?
2. What number comes before 10, 9, 8, and 7?
3. Count up from 5 to 10. What are the numbers?
4. Count down from 10 to 5. What are the numbers?
5. What number comes after 2 and before 4 in this sequence: 1, 2, 3, 4?
6. What number comes before 6 and after 4 in this sequence: 4, 5, 6?
7. Count from 3 to 8. What are the numbers?
8. Count down from 9 to 1. What are the numbers?
9. What number comes after 5, 6, and 7?
10. What number comes before 8, 7, and 6?
11. Count up from 1 to 10, skip 5. What are the numbers?
12. Count down from 10, skip 3. What are the numbers?
13. What number comes after 4, before 6, and before 7?
14. What number comes before 10, after 8, and after 9?
15. Count from 1 to 10, but skip 2 and 4. What are the numbers?
16. Count down from 10, but skip 7 and 5. What are the numbers?
17. What number comes after 2, before 3, and before 4?
18. What number comes before 6, after 4, and after 5?
19. Count up from 1 to 10, but skip 9. What are the numbers?
20. Count down from 10 to 1, but skip 2. What are the numbers?

Answers and Explanations

Easy Level Answers

1. Answer: 2.Explanation: After 1, the next number is 2. Counting means going up by one.
2. Answer: 1.Explanation: Before 2, the number is 1. It’s like counting backwards!
3. Answer: 3, 4, 5.Explanation: Counting up from 3 gives us 3, 4, and then 5. We keep adding 1.
4. Answer: 5.Explanation: After 4 comes the number 5. We’re moving up!
5. Answer: 4.Explanation: Before 5, the number is 4. It’s counting down!
6. Answer: 6, 5, 4.Explanation: Counting down from 6 goes 6, 5, 4. We subtract 1 each time.
7. Answer: 8.Explanation: After 7, the next number is 8. We keep counting up.
8. Answer: 7.Explanation: Before 8, we have the number 7. That’s counting down!
9. Answer: 2, 3, 4.Explanation: Counting up from 2 to 4 gives us 2, 3, and 4. We always add 1.
10. Answer: 10.Explanation: After 9, we count to 10. That’s the highest number we use!
11. Answer: 9.Explanation: Before 10, the number is 9. We count down again!
12. Answer: 5, 4.Explanation: Counting down from 5 goes 5, 4. We take away 1 each time.
13. Answer: 4.Explanation: After 3, the next number is 4. We move up again!
14. Answer: 3.Explanation: Before 4, we have 3. It’s just like counting down.
15. Answer: 1, 2.Explanation: Counting up from 1 to 2 gives us 1, 2. We skip 3!
16. Answer: 7.Explanation: After 6, the number is 7. We’re going up!
17. Answer: 8.Explanation: Before 9, we have the number 8. That’s counting down!
18. Answer: 6, 5.Explanation: Counting down from 8 goes 8, 7, 6, 5. We take away 1.
19. Answer: 2.Explanation: After 1, we have 2. That’s counting up!
20. Answer: 3.Explanation: Before 4, we have the number 3. We’re counting back!

Medium Level Answers

1. Answer: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.Explanation: Counting up from 1 to 10 gives us all the numbers in order. That’s what counting is all about!
2. Answer: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.Explanation: Counting down from 10 to 1 gives us all the numbers in reverse order. It’s just like going back!
3. Answer: 3.Explanation: After 2 and before 4 is the number 3. It comes right in the middle.
4. Answer: 5.Explanation: Before 6 and after 4 we have the number 5. It’s in between!
5. Answer: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.Explanation: Counting up from 4 to 8 gives us 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. We keep going up!
6. Answer: 9, 8, 7, 6, 5.Explanation: Counting down from 9 to 5 gives us those numbers in order. We are going back down!
7. Answer: 6.Explanation: After 5 and before 7, we find 6. It’s right in the middle again!
8. Answer: 7.Explanation: Before 8 and after 6, we have 7. It fits right in!
9. Answer: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.Explanation: Counting from 3 to 7 gives us those numbers in order. We are counting up!
10. Answer: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.Explanation: After 1 and before 9, we have those numbers. We’re just counting around!
11. Answer: 6, 4, 3, 2, 1.Explanation: Counting down from 7 gives us those numbers in order. It’s like going back!
12. Answer: 5.Explanation: Before 6 and after 4, the number is 5. It’s between numbers!
13. Answer: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.Explanation: Counting up from 2 to 6 gives us those numbers. We’re adding 1 each time!
14. Answer: 9.Explanation: Before 10 and after 8, we find 9. It’s right in the middle!
15. Answer: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 1.Explanation: Counting down from 6 gives us those numbers down to 1. We’re going back!
16. Answer: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.Explanation: Counting from 5 to 10 gives us those numbers in order. We’re counting up!
17. Answer: 4.Explanation: After 3 and before 5, we find 4. It fits perfectly!
18. Answer: 5.Explanation: Before 6 and after 4, there’s 5. It’s just right!
19. Answer: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.Explanation: Counting up while skipping 2 and 4 gives us those numbers. We leave some out!
20. Answer: 10, 9, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 1.Explanation: Counting down while skipping 2 gives us those numbers. We’re going back down!

Hard Level Answers

1. Answer: 5.Explanation: After 1, 2, 3, and 4, the next number is 5. We’re counting up!
2. Answer: 8.Explanation: Before 10, 9, 8, and 7, the number is 8. We’re counting down!
3. Answer: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.Explanation: Counting up from 5 to 10 gives us all those numbers in order. We keep going higher!
4. Answer: 9, 8, 7, 6, 5.Explanation: Counting down from 10 to 5 gives those numbers. We take away 1 each time.
5. Answer: 3.Explanation: After 2 and before 4, the number is 3. It’s in between!
6. Answer: 5.Explanation: Before 6 and after 4, we find 5. It sits right in between!
7. Answer: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.Explanation: Counting from 3 to 8 gives us those numbers in order. We keep adding!
8. Answer: 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.Explanation: Counting down from 9 to 1 gives us all the numbers. We’re going back!
9. Answer: 8.Explanation: After 5, 6, and 7, the next number is 8. We’re counting up!
10. Answer: 6.Explanation: Before 8, 7, and 6, we find 6. It’s going down!
11. Answer: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.Explanation: Counting up from 1 to 10 while skipping 5 gives us those numbers. We leave some out!
12. Answer: 10, 9, 8, 6, 4, 3, 1.Explanation: Counting down from 10 to 1 while skipping 7 and 5 gives those numbers. We go back!
13. Answer: 5.Explanation: After 4, before 6, and before 7, we find 5. It’s right in the middle!
14. Answer: 9.Explanation: Before 10, after 8, and after 9, we find 9. It fits perfectly!
15. Answer: 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.Explanation: Counting from 1 to 10 while skipping 2 and 4 gives us those numbers. We leave some out!
16. Answer: 10, 9, 8, 6, 4, 3, 1.Explanation: Counting down while skipping 2 gives us those numbers. We’re going back!
17. Answer: 3.Explanation: After 2, before 3, and before 4, the number is 3. It’s between!
18. Answer: 5.Explanation: Before 6, after 4, and after 5, we find 5. It’s right in the middle!
19. Answer: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.Explanation: Counting up from 1 to 10 while skipping 9 gives us those numbers. We leave some out!
20. Answer: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 1.Explanation: Counting down from 10 to 1 while skipping 2 gives us those numbers. We’re going back!

I hope you enjoyed our lesson! Remember to practice counting up and down every day. The more you practice, the better you will get!