Trace the numbers 11 to 20
The teen numbers on their own sheet — ten rows, every one of them two digits, spaced the way a number is actually written rather than the way a font sets it.
- Letter & A4, portrait or landscape
- Real stroke centerlines, not outlines
- Change the size and reprint
Trace the numbers 11 to 20
NameStart on the dot and follow the arrow. Trace the faint ones, then write your own.
This is page one of 2 at the default size. Open it in the maker to print the rest, choose a range, or fit more on a page.
About this sheet
The teens are a unit of their own, which is why they are printed as one. By the time a child meets them the digit shapes are mostly learned: there is nothing new to draw in 11 to 19 that was not in 1 to 9, and what is new is that two marks now have to sit side by side and stay the same size as each other. A sheet of 1 to 20 buries that lesson under ten rows of review, and this one does not.
Why it is drawn this way
It is also the first appearance of place value, a year or two before anybody says the words. Every number in the teens is a 1 followed by something, and a column of them written out is the first time the left-hand digit visibly does a different job from the right-hand one. It is worth pointing at while they trace — not explaining, just noticing — and it is the reason the rows here run in order rather than being shuffled.