Skip Count Backwards
About this exercise
Counting down in equal steps, which is the pattern behind division.
Example problems
A few of the problems this exercise asks. The printable worksheet holds ten fresh ones.
- Counting back by 3. Fill in the missing number: 57, 54, ?, 48, 45
- Counting back by 2. Fill in the missing number: 34, 32, 30, 28, ?
- Counting back by 5. Fill in the missing number: 80, 75, 70, ?, 60
- Counting back by 5. Fill in the missing number: 75, 70, ?, 60, 55
Try it yourself first — open a section below only if you get stuck.
How to solve it
Find the step by subtracting two neighboring terms, then keep taking that step away.
Worked example
Counting back by 2 from 20 gives 18, 16, 14 and so on.
Common mistake
Changing the step size partway. Every gap in the sequence must be the same.