Topic: Numbers
Mode: Interpretive
Level: Novice
Students will rearrange number cards in ascending and descending order.
Version 1
Instructions to the teacher
This activity could be done with numbers in written form or, if your language uses a different script for numbers, in their numerical form.
Ascending
- eight, two, four, six (two, four, six eight)
- five, three, seven, nine (three, five, seven, nine)
- seven, one, three, five (one, three, five, seven)
- six, ten, eight, four (four, six, eight, ten)
- twelve, three, nine, six (three, six, nine, twelve)
- five, six, four, seven (four, five, six, seven)
- six, nine, four, one (one, four, six, nine)
- five, ten, eight, two (two, five, eight, ten)
Descending
- seven, three, one, five (seven, five, three, one)
- nine, six, four, three (nine, six, four, three)
- eight, nine, ten, seven (ten, nine, eight, seven)
- eight, seven, six, five (eight, seven, six, five)
- four, one, two, three (four, three, two, one)
- eight, four, two, nine (nine, eight, four, two)
- eight, four, two, six (eight, six, four, two)
- five, zero, ten, fifteen (fifteen, ten, five, zero)
Version 2
Instruction to the teacher
1. Write down on separate cards numbers 1-20 in words in the target language. Make more number cards as necessary.
2. Scramble the order of the numbers.
3. Give the number cards to students.
4. Ask students to work with table partners and rearrange the number cards in ascending order. Make this into a race to increase the excitement level!
5. Students can reshuffle their cards and do descending order next, or this can be saved for another time.
To make this more challenging, you could remove some of the number cards at random from each set. Keep a stack of blank cards at the front of the room. Students must identify the missing numbers and make cards to fill in the blanks. This would make the race more competitive.