Pre-K · Math
What Comes Next?
Free printable Pre-K math worksheet: What Comes Next? It practices patterns. For ages 3-5. Download the PDF, print it, or fill it in online.
Fill in or color online- Grade
- Pre-K
- Subject
- Math
- Skill
- Patterns
- Ages
- 3–5
- Format
- A4 PDF · print or fill in online
About this worksheet
“What Comes Next?” is sheet 9 of 30 in our free Pre-K Math Worksheets collection, written for children aged 3–5. It focuses on patterns, one of two sheets in the set on that skill.
In the set it comes after “Shapes All Around” and before “More and Fewer”. Working through them in that order, one sheet a day, builds the skill a step at a time.
More patterns worksheets
The other Pre-K Math sheets on patterns, in the order they are meant to be done.
How to use this worksheet
- 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.
