Blank hundreds chart
An empty ten-by-ten grid with only 1 and 100 printed. Writing all hundred numbers, in order, saying each one, is a bigger deal than it looks — and the rows are tinted so the tens pattern still shows once it is filled.
How to use it
This is the one to print several copies of. The first fill-in takes a six-year-old a good twenty minutes and they will lose the thread somewhere in the fifties — that is fine, and it is exactly what the tinted rows are for: when a row ends, the next number ends in a 1. Do it in two sittings if needed, and say every number out loud.
Once it is full, it is a hundred chart the child made, which is worth more than one that came out of a printer. Later, use it for skip counting: colour every second square, then every fifth.
Every page in this pack
The empty grid
Printing notes
- Print at 100%, not "fit to page" — scaling shrinks the digits and the whole point is that your child writes them at a steady size.
- Black-and-white and draft mode are fine. Nothing on these sheets depends on colour.
- Slide a sheet into a punched pocket and a dry-wipe pen turns one page into a hundred goes.
Where this sheet fits
The thinking behind it
When Do Kids Learn to Count to 100? — Read the full guide