Numbers in Order

Tuesday, I worked with a parent whose child was having a difficult time with ordering numbers. The child understood the concept of ordering numbers but couldn’t get enough practice. Numbers have an order or arrangement. The number two is between one and three. Three or more numbers can be placed in order. A number may come before the other numbers or it may come between them or after them. The order may be ascending (getting larger in value) or descending (becoming smaller in value). To help solve this problem, the parent used FlinkMake to create an interactive worksheet on the computer. It took only minutes to enter fifty problems.


The worksheet is fun and engaging, with characters the children can appreciate. Each screen has a few numbers the children have to put in the correct order. Children find the next number in the sequence and drag it to the correct box. They continue dragging numbers until all the numbers are in the correct order. The teacher can make tens of problems in minutes, providing the children with a limitless number of ordering numbers problems.

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