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Ordering Licence Plates

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Purpose:

You can help your child to order numbers up to 1000.

What you need:

  • A set of six or seven licence plate numbers from a car park, a walk along the street or the license plate numbers from your whanau/aiga.
  • Pen and paper

What to do:

Write each number on a different piece of paper.
Arrange the numbers in order from smallest to biggest.
 
Help your child to arrange the numbers by choosing one license number and asking:
How many hundreds are in this number?
Look at a second licence number and ask how many hundreds are in this number?
Which of these two licence numbers is bigger?
If there are two numbers with the same hundreds number e.g. 469 and 428 then compare the number in the tens column.

What to expect your child to do:

To be able to order numbers to 1000 by looking firstly at the hundreds, then the tens, then the ones column.   

Variation:

  • Ask your child to write a hundreds number bigger than any of the licence numbers, smaller than any of the licence numbers, or between two of the licence plate number.
  • Look at prices in junk mail. Write some of the prices on separate pieces of paper. Arrange the pries in order from smallest to biggest.

He Kupu Māori:

tohu raihana waka
licence plate
mati
digit
nui ake
bigger than
iti iho
smaller than

He Whakawhitinga Kōrero:

  • Kimihia kia whitu ngā tohu raihana waka, ka tuhi ai i ngā tau ki te pepa. (Find 7 license plates and write the numbers on to paper.)
  • Raupapahia ngā tau mai i te iti ki te rahi. (Put the numbers in order from smallest to biggest.)
  • Tirohia te mati o ngā rau. E hia ngā rau o tēnā tau? (Look at the hundreds digit. How many hundreds does that number have?)
  • Ko tēhea te mati e tohu ana i ngā rau? (Which digit signifies the hundreds?)
  • Mēnā he ōrite te maha o ngā rau, me titiro ki te mati o ngā tekau. (If the number of hundreds is the same, then look at the tens digit.)
  • He nui ake te rima rau i te toru rau. (500 is bigger than 300.)
  • He iti iho te rua tekau i te whitu tekau. (20 is smaller than 70.)

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