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Year 4 · Maths

Count Backwards Including Negative Numbers

Year 4 learners practise counting backwards through zero and negative numbers.

The activities include Count Back Through Zero, Count Backwards and Forwards Through Zero, Count Backwards Through Zero, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, teaching, interactive, worksheet. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Count Back Through Zero
  • Count Backwards and Forwards Through Zero
  • Count Backwards Through Zero
  • Count Backwards to Include Negative Numbers
  • Count Below Zero
  • Cross Zero When Counting Backwards and Forwards
  • Go Below Zero!
  • Order Positive and Negative Numbers

Checked learning resources

  • Year 4: Count Backwards Through Zero to Include Negative Numbers

    YouTube — Sam Stirling · Video · Opens on the provider website

    This 1:52 Year 4 lesson counts backwards across zero on a number line into negative values, directly supporting both the one-step and count-back-in-twos activity activities.

  • Year 4 Count Backwards Through Zero to Negative Numbers Intervention

    Twinkl · Teaching · Account may be required

    This signed-in Year 4 intervention uses a number line to teach the position and order of positive numbers, zero and negative numbers. It supports counting below zero and explains why a value farther left, such as -10, is

  • ITP Number Line

    Mathsframe · Interactive · Opens on the provider website

    ITP Number Line. This interactive maths activity gives immediate-feedback practice to practise counting backwards through zero.

  • Order Positive and Negative Numbers

    Corbett Maths · Worksheet · Opens on the provider website

    Order Positive and Negative Numbers. These KS2 primary maths questions provide worked examples and independent practice to use the < and > symbols to order positive and negative numbers.

  • Year 4 Practise Counting Backwards and Forwards Through Zero with Negative Numbers

    Math Salamanders · Worksheet · Opens on the provider website

    Printable upper-primary number-line practice counts forwards and backwards through zero, orders negative numbers and fills missing values in sequences.

  • Count Backwards to Include Negative Numbers video

    Corbettmaths Primary · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Year 4 Maths video matched to count backwards to include negative numbers.

  • Place value

    BBC Bitesize · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

    Year 4 Maths resource matched to counting backwards through zero and negative numbers.

  • Count Backwards to Include Negative Numbers practice

    Corbettmaths Primary · Practice · Opens on the provider website

    Year 4 Maths practice matched to count backwards to include negative numbers.