Skip Counting by 5s Chart

Start by reading the blue numbers aloud together, tapping each one, until the rhythm of 5, 10, 15 feels natural. Then cover the chart with a sheet of paper and let children fill the missing boxes from memory. Counting nickels or fingers on a hand ties the pattern to something real. Use it again before telling time on a clock, since the minutes count by 5s too.

1 page. Page 1: A 100 chart with every multiple of 5 in blue, plus 2 rows of skip counting boxes with 10 missing numbers to fill in.

Yes. We made it for 1st Grade numbers, and it works the same at home or at school. Families print it for one child and keep it where they will use it every day. Teachers print a copy per student or one for the whole room, whichever the day needs.

Counting in jumps of 5 instead of one at a time. The chant usually comes first and the understanding follows.

Skip counting by 5s is the groundwork for multiplication. Counting by 5s is the 5 times table before it has that name. It also builds the habit of counting in groups instead of one at a time, which is what makes larger numbers manageable.

Very normal, and it is the useful thing to work on next. Chanting is memorized sound. Understanding shows up when you start them at, say, 6 and ask what comes next. Practice starting from different points and the chant turns into real counting.

A hundreds chart shows 1 to 100 in ten rows of ten. A 120 chart adds two more rows, to 120, which matches the counting goal for 1st grade.

On a 0-99 chart every number in a row has the same tens digit and every number in a column has the same ones digit, which makes tens and ones easy to see.

Children use the numbers around a gap to work out what is missing: one more to the right, one less to the left, ten more below and ten less above. The three levels go from about 20 missing numbers to about 60.

Yes. The blank charts, missing number charts, skip counting charts and mystery pictures each have an answer key.