Build number confidence and place value understanding with this versatile resource. The Number of the Day Worksheets: 2 Digit Numbers are designed to help students explore two-digit numbers in depth, using a range of mathematical representations and number sense activities.

Each worksheet provides a fresh opportunity to revisit essential numeracy skills in a structured but flexible format. These daily number routines encourage consistent practice and make it easy to incorporate number exploration into your morning work, rotations, or intervention sessions.

Featuring both standard and challenge options, this pack supports differentiated instruction while reinforcing foundational maths concepts like digit value, comparing numbers, and composing and decomposing numbers.

Key Learning Outcomes

• ✅ Recognise and write 2-digit numbers in words and numerals
• ✅ Represent numbers using tally marks, drawings, and place value models
• ✅ Identify numbers that are more than or less than a given number
• ✅ Locate and mark numbers on a number line
• ✅ Demonstrate number understanding through illustrations and base ten blocks
• ✅ Strengthen understanding of ordinals, doubling, and money representation

What’s Included

• Standard worksheet with a range of tasks to suit most learners
• Challenge worksheet with additional tasks and deeper reasoning questions

Materials Needed

• Printed copies of the worksheets
• Pencils, coloured pencils, or crayons
• Optional: counters, base ten blocks, number lines, toy money

How to Use

1. Choose a two-digit number as the “Number of the Day” and write it on the board or display it for students.
2. Distribute the worksheet (standard or challenge version) to students.
3. Guide students to complete each section: writing the number, tally marks, more/less, illustrations, number line, and place value breakdown.
4. Encourage students to colour or shade the correct number of objects or base ten blocks where required.
5. Use the final section to practise ordinals, doubling the number, or relating it to money (e.g. showing the number as cents).
6. Review the responses together or have students share and discuss their answers with a partner.

Ideas for Classroom Use

• 💡 Use as a warm-up activity to begin your maths block with number sense routines
• 💡 Set as independent practice during numeracy rotations
• 💡 Incorporate into intervention groups to build number recognition and representation
• 💡 Display the Number of the Day and have students complete the worksheet during morning work time
• 💡 Invite students to explain or present one of their representations to develop mathematical language

Top Teacher Tips

• 💛 Print and laminate copies to use with whiteboard markers for a reusable version
• 💛 Keep manipulatives like counters and number lines nearby to support visual learners
• 💛 Challenge fast finishers with a “mystery number” task using clues to guess the number
• 💛 Extend learning by having students create and solve a word problem using the number
• 💛 Use real-life examples to connect numbers with contexts familiar to students, like bus numbers or coins

Number of the Day Worksheets: 2 Digit Numbers is the perfect way to embed daily number routines – building confidence, deepening understanding, and creating a consistent maths habit in your classroom.