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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Place value
BBC Bitesize · Lesson · Opens on the provider website
Year 4 Maths resource matched to counting backwards through zero and negative numbers.
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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.