Ordinal Numbers Lesson Materials – First, Second, Third, Next, Previous, Last, etc.

This post discusses a useful presentation for teaching ordinal numbers.

Click here to download the whole package!

Some lessons lend themselves easily to explanations & games, but ordinal numbers as a concept are not always straightforward to teach.  I recently attended a workshop in which my group had to prepare a quick demo lesson on ordinal numbers. To teach it, we used four ideas:

• Familiar celebrities (familiar to Korean students, anyway) & Olympic medal positions to introduce the concept of ordinals
• A bit of a math challenge to engage the students in figuring out which number in the series is next, previous, first, and last
• A physical activity to engage a dozen students in organizing themselves in order according to the ordinal written on the card they received
• A “Hotel Game” in which a bell hop moves from cell to cell on a grid, and the students have to yell out, for example, “3rd floor, 5th room!”

Here are the materials we used:

• The presentation as a whole – Click here to download in PDF format & Click here to download in Apple Keynote format
  
• The whole pre-made Hotel Game & directions – Click here to download in PDF format
  
• The Hotel Game board – Click here to download in PDF format
  
• The Hotel Game bell-hop image – Click here to download in JPG format
  
• The Ordinal Number Cards – Click here to download in PDF format
  

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