Year 1 · Maths
Order numbers
Putting numbers up to 20 in order, smallest first and largest first.
New sheets start on target. You can also print an easier one or a harder one.
What your child will see
The whole sheet as it prints. Every new sheet has different numbers.
Peg the socks on the empty line in order. Write the numbers in the boxes.
Two minutes at home
- Ask
- Which number is the smallest? How do you know?
- Play
- Write numbers on paper socks or scraps, and peg them on a string in order. Then mix them up and do it again.
Common mistakes and how to help
Used the right numbers in the wrong places: they may not be sure which comes first yet.
Try this: Find each number on a number track and put them in the order you meet them, left to right.
Put the numbers largest first when the line asks for smallest first, or the other way round.
Try this: Before starting, read the words under the line together: which end does the smallest go?
The digits are the wrong way round, as in 41 for 14. "Fourteen" says the 4 first, but we write the 1 first.
Try this: Say "fourteen is ten and four" and write the 1 for the ten first, then the 4.
Wrote a number that isn't on the socks: one may have been copied wrongly.
Try this: Tick each sock as its number goes on the line, so none is missed or changed.
Curriculum links
Identify and represent numbers using objects and pictorial representations including the number line, and use the language of: equal to, more than, less than (fewer), most, least.
National curriculum in England: mathematics programmes of study · Year 1 Mathematics: Number and place value
Count, read and write numbers to 100 in numerals; count in multiples of 2s, 5s and 10s.
National curriculum in England: mathematics programmes of study · Year 1 Mathematics: Number and place value
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