Printable Hundreds Charts
Twelve printable 1 to 100 charts: full references, missing-number practice, highlighted multiples and sparse chart puzzles. The grid always keeps one number per cell.
Ages 5-8
Updated October 2026
Curated by 
Poppy Fox
Reference charts
Three copies of the finished chart with nothing to fill in. What changes is the tint: none, then bands across the rows, then stripes down the columns.
Reference charts, practice 1
Every number from 1 to 100 printed, no blanks and no shading: the plain copy to pin on the wall.
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Reference charts, practice 2
Same complete grid, banded: every second row is tinted, starting at 11 to 20 and ending at 91 to 100.
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Reference charts, practice 3
Two tinted stripes run down the full grid: the fives column, 5 to 95, and the tens column, 10 to 100.
Download PDFMissing-number charts
The chart with cells knocked out, seventeen on the first sheet and twenty-seven on the third. Enough numbers stay put that a child can count along a row to recover the rest.
Missing-number charts, practice 1
Seventeen cells blanked across the full chart, the first of them 9, and the bottom two rows left complete.
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Missing-number charts, practice 2
The very first cell is blank here, one of twenty-two gaps: the child has to know the chart starts at 1.
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Missing-number charts, practice 3
Twenty-seven gaps, the most of the three, and 100 itself is missing from the bottom right corner.
Download PDFNumber patterns
The complete grid again, tinted to show one series at a time: twos, then fives, then tens. Nothing gets written, the pattern is read off the shading.
Number patterns, practice 1
Every even column tinted top to bottom, so 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 read as five solid stripes.
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Number patterns, practice 2
Multiples of five shaded, 5 through 100, which is the same tinted pair of columns as Reference charts, practice 3.
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Number patterns, practice 3
One stripe only, the far right column: 10, 20, 30 and on to 100, with nothing else marked.
Download PDFHundreds-chart puzzles
Over half the chart is gone on these three. A child still counting one by one will stall, so this is where jumping ten down a column starts to pay.
Hundreds-chart puzzles, practice 1
Sixty-five cells empty and thirty-five printed: the 71 to 80 row shows only 80, but the tens column survives intact.
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Hundreds-chart puzzles, practice 2
Here the tens column breaks too, with 20, 30, 40, 50, 80 and 100 gone from a chart of fifty-nine blanks.
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Hundreds-chart puzzles, practice 3
Fifty-three empty cells, the gentlest of the three puzzles, with all ten tens printed and both ends of row one kept.
Download PDFWhat the grid does that a number line cannot
A hundred chart is 1 to 100 laid out ten across. That shape is the whole lesson. Step right and you add one. Step down and you add ten, every time, anywhere on the page. A child who works out that second move stops counting on fingers for something like 47 plus 30 and drops three rows instead. No sheet here says so in words. The layout does it.
Print them in this order
Start with the plain reference chart and leave it on the wall. Then the two tinted versions, which are the same grid with rows or columns shaded, so the counting pattern is visible before anyone has to produce it. The missing-number sheets come next: seventeen blanks, then twenty-two, then twenty-seven. Finish with the puzzles, where over half the chart is gone. Going straight to the puzzles is the usual mistake. They are not harder in kind, only in how little is left to lean on.
The two places children stall
The first is the end of a row. Ask for the number after 39 and a child reading left to right will often restart at 31 or say thirty-ten. The jump to a new row breaks the rhythm they were riding. The second is the last row, which runs 91, 92 and on to 99, 100, with that 100 sitting where a 110 would feel right. The third missing-number sheet leaves exactly that cell empty.
About the shading
The missing-number and puzzle sheets carry no shading at all, just ruled cells and gaps. Tint appears only on the six full charts, and two of those six print the same tint: the fives column and the tens column, captioned once as "Ones columns" and once as "Multiples of 5". Pick whichever caption suits the lesson. The page underneath is the same.
