Lesson Planning of Ordinal Number
Subject Mathematics
Grade 2nd
Students` Learning Outcomes
- Write ordinal numbers from first to twentieth.
Information for Teachers
- Ordinal numbers represent position of things with rest to their place for example first, second, third, Twentieth.
- Ordinal numbers are written like this 1st, 2nd, 3rd, ,…………….20th.
Material / Resources
Writing board, chalk / marker, duster, flash cards, chart, textbook
Introduction
- Ask the students who steed first in the previous class?
- Take their feedback and write on the board names of students along with their position.
Sara |
1st |
Omar |
2nd |
Ali |
3rd |
- Ask students can we write their positions as one (1), two (2) and three (3) instead of 1st, 2nd, 3rd? (Expected answer would be as; no)
- If not why so?
- Encourage them and explain that we use “ordinal numbers” to identify position.
- Ordinal numbers represent position of things, with respect to their place.
- Today we will learn more about these ordinal numbers.
Development
Activity 1
- Show the students car racing chart.
- Ask the students to observe the positions of cars with respect to their places in race.
- Tell the students that orange car is at 1st position. (Expected answer would be as: first)
- The green colour car is at 2nd position. (Expected answer would be as: second)
- Now keep telling them till 20th position. (Expected answer would be as: third)
- The pink car is at 3rd position.
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd, up to 20th are ordinal numbers.
- Write on the board ordinal numbers up to twentieth in first column and in words like first, second, up to twentieth in the second column.
- Ask the students to read loudly.
- Guide them in learning the spellings.
Activity 2
- Write on the board ordinal numbers and words related to them.
1st |
Eighteen |
6th |
Twentieth |
8th |
Seventh |
14th |
Twelfth |
18th |
First |
20th |
Eighth |
11th |
Third |
7th |
Fourteenth |
12th |
Sixth |
3rd |
Eleventh |
- Call the students one by one to the board.
- Ask them to match the ordinal number written in first column with the corresponding word in the second columns.
- Keep on matching the columns till last number and encourage the students.
Activity 3
- Write alphabets A-T on the board.
- Ask the students to write these in their notebooks.
- Ask the students to fill in the boxes with ordinal numbers such as; 1st, 2nd, 3rd …2 0th according to the position of each alphabet.
- Observe their work and guide the students.
Sum up / Conclusion
- Ordinal numbers are 1st, 2nd, 3rd ……….. 20th.
- In words we write ordinal numbers first, second, third …………… twentieth
Assessment
- Make the following table on the board and call the students one by one and ask them to write the corresponding ordinal number in front of the day.
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
Sunday |
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1st |
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- Write the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th position of the animals;
- Ask the students to write the names of their class fellows who are sitting at the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd position in the first row.
Follow up
- Ask students to have a competition of race in the playground and tell who stands at 1st, 2nd and 3rd positions.
- Make a poster of the months of year.
- Ask the students to solve the questions given in the textbook.