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Purpose:

You can help your child to order numbers from one to one hundred.

What you need:

  • Newspaper, junk mail or old magazines
  • Scissors

What to do:

Help your child to look for the numbers 1 – 100 in the newspaper and cut these out.

Once you have a pile of numbers (10 to 15 would be plenty) put them in order from smallest to largest. Ask your child questions about the order of numbers as you work:

  • Which is the smallest number?
  • Which of these numbers would come after that one?

Help your child to identify numbers that are missing from the sequence.

  • What would be the next counting number after this one?
  • Which number comes before this one in the counting sequence?

He Kupu Māori:

order, sequence raupapa

He Whakawhitinga Kōrero:

  • Tapahia ngā tau e kite ana koe i te nūpepa i ngā mōheni rānei. Ko ngā tau mai i te kotahi ki te kotahi rau anake. (Cut out the numbers you see in the newspaper or magazine. Only numbers from 1 to 100.)
  • Raupapahia ngā tau mai i te iti ki te rahi. (Put the numbers in order from the smallest to largest.)
  • Ko tēhea te tau iti rawa atu? He aha koe i mōhio ai? (Which is the smallest number? How do you know?)
  • Ko tēhea te tau ki muri i tēnā? (Which number would come after that one?)
  • Mēnā e tatau ana tāua, he aha te tau ka whai muri i tēnā? (If we are counting, which number would come after that one?)
  • Mēnā e tatau ana tāua, he aha te tau ki mua i tēnā? (If we are counting, which number would come before that one?)

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