Lining Up

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Lining Up!

• Ordinal Numerals

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Teacher Page
Content Math Grade level 1st Creator Marge
Humphrey Curriculum Standard Number Sense MAP
StandardM1 Activity Identify ordinal numerals
1st through 10th Children will need blocks or
unifix cubes to complete the activities. Crayons,
paper (or math journals) are also needed.
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• These words and numbers tell the order of the
  animals

First 1st Second 2nd Third
3rd Fourth 4th Fifth 5th
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• Sixth 6th
• Seventh 7th
• Eighth 8th
• Ninth 9th
• Tenth 10th

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Lets Find the Winner
Are they in a line? Are they all facing the same
way? What color car is first?
yes
yes
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Swimming in a line
Which fish is 1st? Which fish is 3rd? Which fish
is last?
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Which crayon?
What position is the green crayon? What position
is the red crayon? What position is the purple
crayon? What position is the yellow crayon?
4th
2nd
10th
3rd
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Your Turn!

• In your journal make 5 boxes in a row

Color the 1st box green. Color the 3rd box
blue. Color the 5th box brown. Color the 4th box
red. Color the 2nd box orange.
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Do your boxes look like these?
Super!!!
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You need cubes now!

• Put 5 different colored cubes in a row.
• Show your neighbor the 2nd cube.
• Show your neighbor the 4th cube.
• What cube is in between the 2nd and the 4th?

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Now put eight cubes in a row
Now work with a partner and ask your partner
questions about where the cubes are (like what
color is the 1st cube?).
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Problem Solving

• The class is lined up. Max is 1st in line.
• Beth was 10th in line. Max left the line.
• Where is Beth in line now?
• Draw this in your journal.