Octopus's Ordinal Ladder – Ordinal Numbers Worksheet (IB PYP Grade 1)

About This Worksheet

Climb the ladder: seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth! This colourful, printable IB PYP Grade 1 Mathematics worksheet gives young learners focused practice with ordinal numbers, with a friendly octopus to guide them. It has a name, class and date box for students, the mindtested.com header and footer, and a teacher answer key on page 2.

What Questions Are in This Worksheet?

There are 3 activities worth 10 marks in total:

• Activity A: Finding places in a line.
• Activity B: Matching numbers to ordinal words.
• Activity C: Writing ordinal numbers.

What Your Child Will Practise

• Writing ordinals like 4th
• Writing ordinal words
• Finding first to tenth in a line
• Matching numbers to ordinal words

How to Use This Worksheet

1. Print the PDF on A4 paper (colour is best, but black and white works too).
2. Read each instruction aloud together before your child starts.
3. Let your child try every activity independently first.
4. Mark with the answer key on page 2 and talk through any mistakes.

Tip: five to ten minutes of regular practice works better for Grade 1 learners than one long session. Colour in the octopus when the worksheet is finished as a small reward.

Ideal for classroom use, homework, tutoring or home learning in the IB PYP Number strand, where learners use first, second, third and so on to say where something is in a line. Answer key included.