Maths: Counting and Ordering Numbers to 20

Home Learning Challenges

Write out the numbers 0-20 on some paper Draw circles on a piece
or card, cut them up and then ask a grown- of paper and put different
up to mix the numbers up – don’t peek! Then, coloured paints in shallow
see how quickly you can put them into the trays. Choose a number
correct order. You could ask someone to time between 1 and 20. Dip
you and then see if you can get faster when your finger into paint and
you try again. add that many petals to
one of the circles, making
Collect 20 leaves from your garden or a a flower. Count the petals
local park. Write the numbers 1-20, one on to check how many you
each leaf, using a thick marker pen. Use a have and write that
hole punch to make a hole in either end of the number in the middle of
leaves and then thread them onto a piece of the circle. Choose another
string. Don’t forgot to put them in the correct number and do the same
order! You could then put up your homemade to another circle on your
number line in your bedroom to help you page. Fill up your page
remember the order of the numbers. with colourful flowers,
each with different
amounts of petals.
Next time you open a packet of raisins,
some carrot sticks or apple pieces, count out
how many you have. If you’re eating them Write the numbers 0-20
with a friend, count how many they have on plastic building bricks.
too. Can you write the numbers down? Make a tower of 21 bricks,
seeing if you can put the
numbers in the correct
Ask an adult to hide the numbers to 20
order. Start with 0 at the
around your room, house or garden. See if
bottom and 20 at the
you can find all 20 and place them in order.
top and then try starting
You could ask someone to tell you a number
with 0 at the top and
to find. Can you remember what the number
20 at the bottom.
looks like and find it?