Sort numbers: smallest to largest
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Kindergarten : Ordering numbers : Order numbers smallest to largest

In this topic you are asked to look at a mixed up list of numbers and sort them so that the first number is the smallest, the next number is the second smallest and so on. There are 4 numbers in each list, and the numbers can be as small as 1 and as big as 50. In the first question, you have the list :

13, 2, 4, 1

You can see that 1 is the smallest number in that list, so the first number in your sorted list will be 1. The next smallest number is 2, so 2 is your next number. The next smallest is 4 so now you have 3 numbers sorted and the last number must be the biggest, which it is. So the sorted list is :

1, 2, 4, 13

In a different question from the topic you are asked to sort the following list :

22, 42, 30, 35

So you do the same thing and look for the smallest number in that list. Look at the first digit of each number and you will see that one of them is a 2, and the others are bigger numbers, so that 22 has to be the smallest number. There are two numbers in the list that start with a 3, so compare their second digit. One of them is a 0 and the other is a 5, so the one with the 0 is next smallest. The biggest number must be the one that starts with a 4, that is 42. So the sorted list is :

22, 30, 35, 42