Game: MIX AND MATCH
Aim: Drag question blocks to answer boxes
Method:
Drag the question block over the right answer box to tidy up the play room. Points are added and taken away automatically.
Click the answer boxes to hear the answer for each box. You must answer 5 questions correctly to complete the game
Kindergarten / Comparing numbers / Ordering numbers / Sort numbers: largest to smallest
In this topic you are asked to look at a mixed up list of numbers up to 50 and sort them so that the first number is the biggest, the next number is the second biggest and so on. There are 4 numbers in each list, and the numbers can be as big as 50 and as small as 1. In the first question, you have the list :
23, 3, 8, 1
Start by counting the number of digits in each number - three of them have one digit, but the first number, 23, has 2 digits. A two digit number is always bigger than a one digit number, so the 23 has to be the biggest number in that list.
Now we have three numbers left to sort. They all have one digit so we can just compare how big they are. We know that 8 is bigger than 3 or 1 so 8 is the next biggest number.
Two numbers left... one of them starts with is 3 but the other one is 1, so the 3 is bigger than the 1 and is the next number in our sorted list. So the final list of numbers sorted from biggest to smallest has to be :
23, 8, 3, 1
In another question from the topic you are asked to sort the following list from largest to smallest :
22, 29, 67, 17
So we use the same technique as last time and look for the largest number in that list. Look at the first digit of each number and you will see that one of them is a 6, and the others are smaller numbers, so that 67 has to be the biggest number.
There are two numbers in the list that start with a 2, so compare their second digit. One of them is a 2 (the 22) and the other is a 9 (the 29), so the one with the 9 (the 29) is next biggest.
The smallest number must be the one that starts with a 1, the 17. So the sorted list from largest to smallest is :
67, 29, 22, 17
With our Mix and match math game you will be practicing the topic "Sort numbers: largest to smallest" from Kindergarten / Comparing numbers / Ordering numbers. The math in this game consists of 16 questions that ask you to order four numbers up to 50 from largest to smallest.
In this game we are in a room with lots of toys - and the room needs clearing up - you need to put the play blocks back in the right boxes to tidy the room and win the game...but which is the right box for each block? Well, you can work that out by comparing the question on the block with the math answer on each of the boxes - you should drag the question block into the box whose math answer matches the picture question.
You can listen to the spoken math answer by clicking on the individual boxes. There are 5 blocks to clear up - but if you put them in the wrong boxes, there will be more... Anyway, tidy is good and practicing math is better so start now and see how you get on...
This game reinforces the math you learned or revised in the lesson by asking you to match each question to the correct answer. If you are older you may not like the childish reference to toys, but don't worry - there are other games to play, and who knows - you might like a trip down memory lane?
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There are 5 blocks that need putting away to tidy the play room. Drag (they are heavy...) the blocks to the correct boxes.
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