Monkey's Blast-Off Countdown – Counting Backward Worksheet (IB PYP Grade 1)

About This Worksheet

Count down from 20 with a monkey astronaut, solve a backward maze and finish a countdown dot-to-dot. This colourful, printable IB PYP Grade 1 Mathematics worksheet gives young learners focused practice with counting backward, with a friendly monkey to guide them. It has a name, class and date box for students, the mindtested.com header and footer, and a teacher answer key on page 2.

What Questions Are in This Worksheet?

There are 4 activities worth 10 marks in total:

• Activity A: Balloons counting down from 20 with missing numbers.
• Activity B: What comes next when counting backward.
• Activity C: A number maze that counts backward from 12.
• Activity D: A connect-the-dots picture counting from 11 down to 1.

What Your Child Will Practise

• Count backward from 20
• Name the next number when counting back
• Follow a descending sequence through a maze
• Order numbers from 11 down to 1

How to Use This Worksheet

1. Print the PDF on A4 paper (colour is best, but black and white works too).
2. Read each instruction aloud together before your child starts.
3. Let your child try every activity independently first.
4. Mark with the answer key on page 2 and talk through any mistakes.

Tip: five to ten minutes of regular practice works better for Grade 1 learners than one long session. Colour in the monkey when the worksheet is finished as a small reward.

Ideal for classroom use, homework, tutoring or home learning in the IB PYP Number strand: counting back, countdowns and finding the number before. Answer key included.