Skip Count Safari

What your child will figure out

• Predict and land on the next number when counting in equal jumps from 2 through 10.
• Explain that every skip-counting landing is made by adding the same jump size again.
• Fill a missing term in a skip-count sequence using the equal difference between neighbouring terms.
• Connect repeated jumps to multiplication and practise varied generated sequences at an adaptive difficulty.

The levels

1. Elephant tens

   Predict, hop, observe, and explain equal jumps of 10.

2. Giraffe fives

   Repeat the same causal loop with smaller jumps of 5.

3. Zebra twos

   Use equal jumps of 2 and distinguish skip-counting from counting on by one.

4. Springbok threes and fours

   Generalise equal jumps to less familiar sequences and connect four jumps of 3 to 4 × 3.

5. Hidden watering hole

   Transfer the equal-jump rule to recover a hidden term inside a sequence.

6. Elephant's long trail

   Continue a familiar sequence of 10s from a larger non-zero starting point.

7. Zebra's hidden stripe

   Use both neighbours to recover an internal term in a sequence of 2s.

8. Giraffe's middle branch

   Recover an early missing term in a non-zero sequence of 5s.

9. Springbok threes roam

   Continue counting by 3 from a non-zero multiple.

10. Four-step river bend

    Find an internal missing term in a shifted sequence of 4s.

11. Rhino sixes

    Extend the equal-jump rule to 6s and connect four jumps to 4 × 6.

12. Leopard sevens

    Use equal gaps to find a hidden multiple of 7.

13. Hippo eights

    Extend the equal-jump rule to 8s and connect four jumps to 4 × 8.

14. Lion nines

    Use both neighbours to find a hidden multiple of 9 on a shifted trail.

15. Ranger's grand crossing

    Transfer the rule across a larger non-zero sequence without relying on a zero start.