Consolidation and practice
These resources are to support children in guided or independent work.
Opportunities to use and apply
Possible contexts include:
- Money, e.g. comparing costs by ordering items from the cheapest to the most expensive.
- Measures, e.g. comparing lengths by ordering them from shortest to tallest/longest.
- PE, e.g. ordering the lengths of standing long jumps (cm) or the time taken (seconds) to run a short distance.
- Finding all possibilities, e.g. how many two-digit numbers can you make using the digits 5, 6, 7 and 8? Put them in order from smallest to largest to help you check whether you have found them all.
Confirming learning
Ask probing questions such as:
- When you order a set of two-digit numbers, do you look at the units digit or the tens digit first? Why?
- Would you rather have £75, £76, £67 or £66? Why?
- I need to order these numbers from smallest to largest. Can you explain to me how to do it?
36, 63, 66, 35, 69, 39
- These numbers are ordered, largest to smallest. Place numbers that could go in the empty boxes.
87 85 78 76 44 41
Did you always have a choice of numbers for a box? Why?
- I am thinking of a two-digit number. It is larger than 60, smaller than 80 and has the digit 2 in it. What number could it be?