These worksheets feature simple ordering activities that ask students to write numbers from smallest to greatest or greatest to smallest. Each page features six lists of ten numbers that are scrambled. The directions tell students whether they are writing the numbers from smallest to greatest or greatest to smallest. Students write the numbers on the lines below. To help them keep track of the answers, you can have them cross off each number as they write it down.

Numbers range from 0 to 99. All lists and their corresponding directions are included in separate rectangles so students can complete one at a time as a math minute activity or the entire page as an early finisher, classwork, or homework.

Students develop a deeper sense of numbers when they learn how to put numbers in order from smallest to greatest and greatest to smallest. It will help them orient future subtraction and division problems correctly, and it supports place value understanding.

Give students a list of numbers and ask them to put them in order, either from smallest to greatest or greatest to smallest. They can write the numbers down on a worksheet, or you can give them cards to put in order. If you want a fun, interactive way to practice putting numbers in order, give all the students in your classroom a number. Then, instruct them to get in order at the front of the room. They can also do this in small groups.

Have students practice with numbers that are appropriate to their age level. For example, very young students might practice with single-digit numbers, while older students might practice with double-digit numbers.