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"Shaping up" with ordinal numbers

This lesson teaches students ordinal numbers through literature, and a visual memory game, and it reviews shapes, colors, and ordinal numbers with a listening and following-directions assessment.

Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)

By Sue Bowen.

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Button trains

This Illuminations lesson is the first of an eight-part unit titled “Begin with Buttons.” In this lesson, students describe order by using vocabulary such as before, after, and between. They also review and use both cardinal and ordinal numbers.... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

Order, order

In this lesson, the first of a nine-part unit from Illuminations titled “Powerful Patterns,” students seriate objects and review the meaning of ordinal numbers. They describe orderings in words and in pictures. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations