Pre-K Math Worksheets
Free printable Pre-K math worksheets for ages 3-5: count and circle, trace numbers 1-10, shapes, big and small, and simple patterns. Print at home or colour them online.
- Sheets
- 10
- Ages
- 3–5
- Price
- Free
- Counting 1-10
- Number writing
- Shapes
- Sorting
- Patterns
Aligned to Head Start Early Learning Outcomes
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All 10 worksheets
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Count and Circle: 1, 2, 3
Counting
Count and Circle: 4 and 5
Counting
Trace the Numbers 1 - 5
Number writing
Match the Number
Counting
Count and Write: 6 - 10
Counting
Trace the Numbers 6 - 10
Number writing
Big and Small
Measurement
Shapes All Around
Geometry
What Comes Next?
Patterns
More and Fewer
Comparing
About these pre-k math worksheets
These ten Pre-K math worksheets cover the first things a three-to-five-year-old needs before formal maths starts: counting small groups accurately, writing the numerals 1 to 10, telling big from small, naming basic shapes, and spotting a simple repeating pattern. There is no addition here and there is deliberately no timing — at this age the goal is that a child counts each object once and does not skip.
Pre-K sits below the Common Core, so these sheets carry no standard code. They follow the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework instead, which describes what most children can do by the end of the pre-kindergarten year rather than prescribing a grade-level target.
What these 10 worksheets cover
- Counting and circling groups of 1 to 5, then 6 to 10
- Tracing the numerals 1 to 10 with correct stroke order
- Matching a written number to the right quantity
- Comparing size: big and small, more and fewer
- Recognising circles, squares, triangles and rectangles in everyday objects
- Continuing a simple AB repeating pattern
Every sheet in this set
In print order, with the standard each one practises.
| # | Worksheet | Skill | Standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Count and Circle: 1, 2, 3 | Counting | Head Start |
| 2 | Count and Circle: 4 and 5 | Counting | Head Start |
| 3 | Trace the Numbers 1 - 5 | Number writing | Head Start |
| 4 | Match the Number | Counting | Head Start |
| 5 | Count and Write: 6 - 10 | Counting | Head Start |
| 6 | Trace the Numbers 6 - 10 | Number writing | Head Start |
| 7 | Big and Small | Measurement | Head Start |
| 8 | Shapes All Around | Geometry | Head Start |
| 9 | What Comes Next? | Patterns | Head Start |
| 10 | More and Fewer | Comparing | Head Start |
How to get the most out of them
- 1
Let your child point at and touch each object as they count it out loud. One-to-one correspondence — one word per object — is the skill being built, and pointing is what makes it visible to you.
- 2
Do one sheet at a time. A Pre-K attention span is roughly five to ten minutes, and stopping while it is still going well is what makes them willing to come back.
- 3
Do not correct a reversed numeral yet. Reversed 3s and 5s are normal until about age seven and disappear on their own with practice.
- 4
If tracing is frustrating, open the same sheet in the online studio instead. A finger on a tablet needs far less fine motor control than a pencil, and the counting practice still happens.
Pre-K Math Worksheets — questions parents ask
- What age are Pre-K math worksheets for?
- Ages three to five — the year or two before kindergarten. If your child can already count to twenty and add small numbers, skip ahead to the kindergarten math worksheets instead.
- Why do these sheets have no Common Core code?
- The Common Core starts at kindergarten. Pre-K is covered by the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework, which has no per-sheet code, so there is nothing to print in the corner. Every kindergarten and above sheet on MiniMinds does carry its code.
- My child counts to twenty but miscounts five objects. Is that normal?
- Yes, and it is the single most common Pre-K maths gap. Reciting number words and counting objects are different skills. These sheets target the second one, which is why every counting page asks the child to circle or write a total rather than just say a number.