Writing Numbers 0 to 20

Kindergarten MathCounting and Cardinality4 pages

About this worksheet

Numeral writing is the whole point of this kindergarten math worksheet for Common Core K.CC.3. A number track from 0 to 20 opens the sheet with eight gaps to fill: 2, 4, 7, 10, 12, 15, 17, and 19. Students then count picture sets and write the numeral for each, including an empty fishbowl that stands for zero, 7 stars, 12 strawberries, and 15 balloons. A trace-and-write table closes the sheet, with the numbers 10, 14, 17, and 20 traced once and written twice each. The answer key notes that the empty bowl represents zero.

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Curriculum objectives covered

K.CC.3

“Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).”

All three activities are writing tasks across the full 0 to 20 range, and the empty fishbowl question targets the zero clause of the standard directly.

What's inside this worksheet

1. Number Track: Fill in the Missing Numbers

The track runs 0 to 20 across three rows with eight boxes blank. Students write 2, 4, 7, 10, 12, 15, 17, and 19 in the gaps.

2. Count and Write the Numeral

Four picture counts: 7 stars in two rows, an empty fishbowl (the answer is 0), 12 strawberries in rows, and 15 balloons. Students write each numeral on the line.

3. Practice Writing Teen Numbers

A table gives 10, 14, 17, and 20, each with one traceable model and two empty cells. Students trace the number once and write it twice.

How teachers use it

Morning work

The number track needs no instructions once students have seen one like it. Leave it on desks as arrival work and check the 17 and 19 boxes, the two most common reversals.

Introducing zero

The empty fishbowl is the moment. Ask what number tells how many fish before anyone writes, and let a student defend writing 0 for a picture with nothing in it.

Handwriting sample

Keep the Activity 3 table as evidence. Two written repetitions of 10, 14, 17, and 20 per student give you a clean before-and-after for teen numeral formation.

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