Number Line Worksheets
From writing the missing numbers at the ticks to bridging through ten, open number lines, fractions, decimals and the first negative numbers. Every sheet draws the line for you; the child does the thinking on it.
Ages 5-11
Updated August 2026
Curated by 
Poppy Fox
Missing numbers to 10, first steps
Four lines from 0 to 10, three or four ticks left empty on each. The two ends always stay printed, so there is always an anchor to count from.
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Missing numbers to 10, more practice
A second run at the 0 to 10 line with the gaps in new places, for the child who filled the first page but hesitated on the way.
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Missing numbers to 15
The awkward teens: lines run 0 to 15, where thirteen and fourteen still get swapped, and the gaps sit right on top of them.
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Missing numbers to 20, every tick
Lines to 20 ticked in ones. Counting through the teens without skipping is the skill, and the empty boxes catch exactly where it breaks.
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Missing numbers to 20, new gaps
Same 0 to 20 span, different holes: this pass hides numbers next to each other, so one answer has to be built on the previous one.
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Missing numbers from 10 to 30
The line starts at 10, not at zero, which quietly breaks the habit of counting from the beginning: the child has to read the anchors first.
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Missing numbers by fives to 50
Every tick is worth five. Filling the gaps forces the check that separates counting by fives from counting the printed neighbours by one.
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Missing tens to 100
The tens line, 0 to 100. The gaps land mid-line where children lose the thread between forty and seventy.
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Missing tens to 100, second round
The tens line again with the holes moved, including one right beside the end anchor, the spot nobody expects to have to think about.
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Missing numbers, 50 to 100 by fives
Fives in the upper half: the line runs 50 to 100, so every answer needs the fives pattern carried past the familiar first decades.
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Missing numbers, 100 to 200
Three digits on the line: 100 to 200 by tens. The same tens pattern as before, now wearing a hundred in front.
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Missing hundreds to 1000
The hundreds line to 1000. Big numbers, same equal spacing: if the fives line made sense, this one is the same puzzle scaled up.
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Draw the dot, numbers to 10
The number is printed big on the left; the child draws its dot on a 0 to 10 line. Placing is harder than reading, which is why this page exists.
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Draw the dot, numbers to 20
Placing dots to 20 with only the even numbers printed: every target is odd territory, one tick past an anchor.
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Draw the dot to 20, fewer labels
The same 0 to 20 line with labels only every four ticks, so finding 13 means picking the right anchor and counting on from it.
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Draw the dot, numbers to 50
Dots to 50: the fives are labelled, the target almost never is, and the child works between two printed anchors every time.
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Draw the dot, numbers to 100
Two-digit placing: only the tens are printed on the 0 to 100 line, so 67 means finding 60 first and stepping seven small ticks on.
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Draw the dot, numbers to 200
The span doubles to 200 and each small tick is worth five, a first taste of lines where one step is not one.
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Name the point, up to 10
The reverse of placing: the dot is already on the 0 to 10 line and the box above waits for its name.
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Name the point, up to 20
Reading marked points to 20 with even anchors printed: the dot always sits on an unlabelled tick, one hop from help.
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Name the point, up to 50
Dots between the fives on a 0 to 50 line. Naming 38 means reading 35 and counting three, not staring until it looks right.
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Name the point, up to 100
Only the tens are labelled on the 0 to 100 line and the dot lives between them, so the answer is built as a ten plus some ones.
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How far apart? Within 10
Two dots, one arc, one question: how many hops between them? Within 10 this is subtraction wearing its most honest clothes.
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How far apart? Within 20
Distances to 20, arcs drawn, boxes waiting. Counting the gap instead of both endpoints is the classic error this page smokes out.
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How far apart? Within 20, round two
A second set of gaps to 20 with wider spreads, for the child who got the first page but still counts one by one.
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How far apart? Within 50
The dots move onto a fives line: distances within 50 measured in jumps of five, which is skip counting doing real work.
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How far apart? Within 100
Distances on the tens line to 100. The arc spans several tens, and the clean way through is counting tens, not ones.
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Write the addition the hops show, to 10
The hops are already drawn; the child writes the addition they show. Reading a model back into an equation is the inverse skill, and it is the one tests ask for.
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Write the addition the hops show, to 20
Same reading job to 20: count where the hops start, how many there are, where they land, and write all three numbers in order.
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Two jumps in a row, to 20
Three-number addition as a journey: start at the dot, take the first labelled jump, then the second, and write where you end up.
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Two jumps in a row, to 50
The two-jump journey moves to the fives line: both hops are multiples of five, so the whole trip can be done in skip counts.
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Bridge through ten: addition
The strategy page: 8 + 5 becomes 8 + 2 + 3, with the first hop landing exactly on ten. The two part-jumps and the answer all get boxes.
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Bridge through the next ten, to 50
Bridging grows up: 27 + 6 splits at 30. Any ten can be the bridge now, which is exactly how mental addition works past twenty.
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Write the subtraction the hops show, to 10
Backward hops this time: the child reads where the trip starts, how many hops back it takes, and writes the subtraction with its result.
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Write the subtraction the hops show, to 20
Reading backward journeys to 20. The trap is writing the landing number first; the boxes are ordered so the start number leads.
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Bridge back through ten: subtraction
Counting back the smart way: 13 take away 5 hops back 3 to reach 10, then 2 more. Both part-hops land in boxes before the answer does.
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Count up to subtract, within 20
Subtraction without going backwards: jump from the small number up to the ten, then on to the big one, and add the two hops.
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Count up to subtract, within 100
The count-up strategy at full size: differences like 62 take away 57 collapse into two tiny hops once the ten in between is used.
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Open number line: addition
No ticks at all, just the start number and an addition like 36 + 27. The child invents the jumps: tens first, then ones, any route that lands right.
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Open number line: addition, round two
Four more open-line additions with new numbers. The goal is not the answer but the route: fewer, bigger, smarter jumps than last time.
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Open number line: subtraction
Open-line subtraction: start at the right end and hop back, or count up from the smaller number. The empty line accepts both routes.
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Open number line: subtraction, round two
More open-line differences with fresh numbers, for building the habit of sketching a quick line whenever a subtraction feels heavy.
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Blank number lines, labelled set
A template page: ready-made 0-10, 0-20 and 0-100 lines plus one bare spare, for setting your own problems without drawing lines by hand.
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Blank number lines, open set
Five bare ticked lines and nothing else. Write your own ends and steps: one page covers fractions practice, negatives, or anything in between.
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Count back by twos
The twos in reverse: arcs run right to left and the boxes fill against the usual direction. Different rows start one apart, so odd runs appear too.
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Count back by fives
Fives backwards from near 50. Some rows start off the multiples, so the run lands on 49, 44, 39 and the pattern has to be carried, not recited.
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Count back by tens
Tens in reverse from near 100, including starts like 98 and 97, where counting back by ten keeps the ones digit and that surprises everybody.
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Twos from an odd start
Counting by twos from 1, 3 or 5: the whole run stays odd. Children who chant two-four-six meet the other half of the numbers here.
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Threes from any start
Threes launched from 2, 3, 4 and 5: only one row lands on the times-table run, so each line needs real adding, not the memorised chant.
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Jumps of 25
Quarters of a hundred: 25, 50, 75, 100 and onwards past 200. The money-and-minutes step every child ends up needing.
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Label every fraction tick
Four 0 to 1 lines cut into halves, thirds, quarters and sixths, and every interior tick gets written. Naming all of them beats spotting one.
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Label every fraction tick, harder cuts
The finer cuts: fifths, eighths, tenths and twelfths on the same 0 to 1 span. The tenths row plants the seed the decimals pages harvest.
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Draw the dot on the fraction
The fraction is printed, the ticks are silent: the child counts the parts and dots the right one. Placing two thirds is understanding two thirds.
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Draw the dot on the fraction, finer lines
Placing moves to fifths, eighths and tenths, where counting the ticks carefully is the difference between seven tenths and eight tenths.
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Equivalent fractions on twin lines
Two lines stacked: a dot at one half above, a box over the same spot on the quarters line below. Equivalence as the same place with two names.
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Mixed numbers past one
The line stretches to 3 and the dot lands past 1: one whole and some parts. Separate boxes for the whole and the fraction keep the two ideas apart.
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Improper fractions on the line
Same dots past 1, opposite name: count every part from zero and write five quarters instead of one and a quarter. The line makes the rename honest.
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Compare fractions with twin lines
Two fractions, two stacked lines, one circle for the sign. Whichever dot sits further right is bigger, no common denominator needed yet.
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Round to the nearest ten on the line
Each line spans exactly one decade with the number dotted on it: seeing which end is closer replaces reciting the rounding rule.
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Round to the nearest ten, more decades
Four more decades with the dot in new places. No number ever ends in five here, so every answer is visibly one end or the other.
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Round to the nearest hundred on the line
The same closer-end logic scaled to hundreds: the line runs from one hundred to the next and the dotted number picks its neighbour.
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Tenths: name the point
The line runs between two whole numbers cut into ten parts, and the dot needs a decimal name. Tenths become places, not digits after a dot.
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Tenths: draw the dot
The decimal is printed and the line waits: count the tenths from the left whole number and place the dot where the value lives.
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Tenths: label the ticks
Three ticks per line ask for their decimal names. The line might run from 6 to 7, so the answers carry the whole number with them.
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Compare decimals on one line
Both decimals sit as dots on one 0 to 1 line, so bigger literally means further right, and the sign in the circle follows from looking.
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Negative numbers: fill the line
The line stretches left of zero for the first time: missing numbers from minus 10 to 10, minus signs included in every answer that needs one.
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Negative numbers: draw the dot
Placing minus 7 correctly settles the big secret of negatives: minus 7 is further from zero than minus 2, even though 7 beats 2.
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Count across zero
From minus 4 up to 3 is seven steps, and the only reliable way to see that at this age is to walk the line through zero. Thermometer thinking.
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Jumps that cross zero
Every arc on this page crosses zero: start at minus 3, hop plus 8, land on 5. The equation boxes record the trip the line already showed.
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Number line word problems, to 20
A frog on stones, a bus between stops, a book being read: three short stories, each with its own line to draw the jumps on before answering.
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Number line word problems, to 100
The same three story shapes with two-digit numbers, so the drawn line earns its keep: page 47 plus 8 more pages wants a bridge at 50.
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Estimate where it lives
No ticks to count: only 0, 50 and 100 are printed and the arrow for 73 goes about where 73 belongs. Estimation is the skill, not precision.
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Closer to 0, 50 or 100?
The dot sits on the line and three circles wait below: nearest to 0, to 50 or to 100. Equidistant values never appear, so one circle is always right.
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Find the midpoint
Two dots, one box in the middle: the number exactly halfway. Every pair is built so the midpoint is whole, and halving is the muscle used.
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What size is the jump?
Equal arcs hop along the line and some ticks show their values: divide the gap by the hops and the jump size falls out. Proto-division, drawn.
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The hop that lost its label
Every hop is labelled except one. The tick numbers on both sides of the naked arc give it away, if the child thinks to subtract them.
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Count on from anywhere
The line starts at 58, or 71, or wherever the dot says: seven boxes continue by one. Crossing the next ten mid-row is the hidden test.
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Number line mixed review
One row each of the four core jobs: fill the gap, name the dot, write the hop equation, place the number. A quick pulse-check page.
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Number line mixed review, second set
The same four-job format with new numbers throughout, for a second pulse-check a few weeks after the first.
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Write the addition the hops show, teens line
The reading job on the 0 to 15 line, where the landing numbers are the teens that get misread most, so writing them is the practice.
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Write the subtraction the hops show, teens line
Backward journeys starting in the teens: reading a trip from 14 back to 8 and writing it as a subtraction, start number first.
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How far apart? Within 30
Distances stretch past 20 for the first time, so the efficient child hops to the nearest ten and counts tens between the dots.
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Draw the dot, 20 to 40
Placing on a line that starts at 20: the left end is not zero, so reading the anchors comes before any counting.
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Name the point, 10 to 30
Naming points on the 10 to 30 span, where a child who assumes the line starts at zero gets every answer off by ten.
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Two jumps in a row, to 20, round two
Another four double-hop journeys with new starts and jumps, for making the add-then-add-again rhythm automatic.
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Count up to subtract, within 50
The middle band for counting up: differences within 50, where the ten between the two numbers does most of the work.
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Fours from any start
Fours from 1, 2 and 3: series like 3, 7, 11, 15 that no times-table chant covers, so every box is an actual plus-four.
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Closer to 0, 50 or 100? More numbers
A second round of benchmark calls with the dots pushed nearer the boundaries, where the choice takes a real look instead of a glance.
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Find the midpoint, wider gaps
More halfway hunts with wider, less friendly gaps: halving 26-to-84 territory rather than neat neighbouring tens.
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Count on from anywhere, second set
Four new starting points, each row crossing a different ten on its way, so the decade change never lands in the same box twice.
Download PDFWhat is a number line?
A number line is a straight line with numbers placed at equal distances along it. That equal spacing is the whole idea: it turns arithmetic into movement, so adding 4 means hopping 4 spaces to the right and subtracting 4 means hopping 4 back. Children who can see a calculation as a trip along the line stop guessing and start reasoning about where numbers live and how far apart they are.
What is on the 90 sheets
The set starts where a five year old starts: writing the missing numbers at empty ticks, first between 0 and 10, later between 100 and 200 and up to 1000. From there it moves through placing dots, naming marked points, and measuring the distance between two dots. The middle of the set is strategy work: reading hops that are already drawn and writing the addition or subtraction they show, splitting a jump at the nearest ten, and subtracting by counting up. The open number lines have no ticks at all, which is exactly the version children use for mental arithmetic in class.
The last rows go where most free sets stop: fractions placed and renamed on the line, decimals in tenths, rounding decided by looking at which ten is nearer, benchmark estimation against 0, 50 and 100, and first steps with negative numbers, including counting across zero.
Which sheet should a child start on?
If counting to 20 is still fresh, start with the missing-number lines to 10 and 20 and the count-on rows. A child who already adds comfortably should go straight to the bridge-through-ten pages: that split is the single most useful habit a number line teaches, and it is the exact strategy behind mental sums like 47 + 8. Fractions, decimals and negatives are for children who already own whole numbers to 100.
Print at 100% (choose "actual size" in the print dialog) on US Letter or A4 paper. The hop skills lean on counting, so the counting worksheets come first if those are shaky. The same jumps power the addition worksheets and subtraction worksheets, skip counting gets its own full set in the skip counting worksheets, fraction models continue in the fraction worksheets, and bigger-number sense lives in the place value worksheets.
