Subject: Mathematics Level: Infant One Strand: Number Topic: Number Concepts – Ordinal Numbers
Key Points: -Numbers can be listed in order e.g. first, second, third…last -First (1st) is position number 1 in a race or a competition, second (2nd) is position number 2 or the one that comes after the first, third (3rd) comes next, then fourth (4th), fifth (5th) -Let us look at these 10 children as they stand in a line. We see that Ana is 1st, Sam is 2nd Tom is 3 rd. and we can continue to tenth. They are standing in order.