Horse's Skip Count Safari – Counting Patterns Worksheet (IB PYP Grade 1)

About This Worksheet

Skip count by 2s, 5s and 10s along the safari trail. This colourful, printable IB PYP Grade 1 Mathematics worksheet gives young learners focused practice with counting patterns, with a friendly horse 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 3 activities worth 13 marks in total:

• Activity A: Skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s.
• Activity B: Skip counting by 2s.
• Activity C: Finding the rule of a counting pattern.

What Your Child Will Practise

• Counting in twos, fives and tens
• Counting backward in patterns
• Finding the rule
• Circling skip counting numbers on a chart

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 horse when the worksheet is finished as a small reward.

Ideal for classroom use, homework, tutoring or home learning in the IB PYP Number strand, where learners skip count forward and backward in twos, fives and tens. Answer key included.