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Ordering numbers worksheet

Each row gives four mixed-up numbers and four empty boxes. The child rewrites the numbers in order, from smallest to largest. Pick your range, then print. Free, no account, no ads.

Range

Within 10 is the place to start. Within 20 adds the teen numbers and a wider spread to compare.

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Ordering Numbers

Write each set of numbers in order, from smallest to largest.

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How it works

Each row shows a set of four numbers that are not in order, an arrow, and four empty boxes. The child compares the numbers and writes them again in the boxes, starting with the smallest and ending with the largest. Every number is used once.

How this differs from missing and before and after numbers

Missing numbers and before and after numbers are about a number's neighbours: the number just before or just after it. This sheet is different. It gives a handful of numbers that are not in order and are not next to each other, and asks the child to compare them and line them up from smallest to largest. That is a bigger step: instead of one number's neighbours, the child weighs several numbers against each other.

Where it fits

Do missing numbers and before and after numbers first, since reading and recalling a single number's neighbours comes before comparing a whole set. The printable hundreds chart is the reference a child can check when they get stuck, and count and color builds the numeral recognition this sheet assumes. The kindergarten and grade 1 pages gather the resources for this age, and when written arithmetic is the right level you can make a worksheet in seconds.

A simple routine

Do the first row together. Ask which number is the smallest, write it in the first box, then cross it off the set. Ask again which is smallest of the ones left, and carry on until the boxes are full. After one row most children carry on alone.