Ordinal Number

 

Lesson Planning of Ordinal Number

Subject Mathematics

Grade 2^nd

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 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, ,…………….20^th.

 

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 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd? (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 1^st position. (Expected answer would be as: first)
• The green colour car is at 2^nd position. (Expected answer would be as: second)
• Now keep telling them till 20^th position. (Expected answer would be as: third)
• The pink car is at 3rd position.
• 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 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; 1^st, 2^{nd, 3rd …}2 0^th according to the position of each alphabet.
• Observe their work and guide the students.

 

Sum up / Conclusion

• Ordinal numbers are 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd ……….. 20^th.
• 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
1st

• 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 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd position in the first row.

Follow up

• Ask students to have a competition of race in the playground and tell who stands at 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd positions.

 

 

• Make a poster of the months of year.
  

 

• Ask the students to solve the questions given in the textbook.