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Put three in order: 1st grade math

Order three objects by length; indirect comparison. A free 1st grade lesson plan, a question set with answers and a printable sheet with its key. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students can do this: order three objects by length; indirect comparison.

Teach (10 min)

  • Line up the left ends. Find the shortest, then the middle, then the longest.
  • Longest to shortest is the same list turned around.
  • Work one example on the board while students say each step aloud, then do one together.

Practise (15 min)

  • Students work the printable sheet in pairs, then alone.
  • Or practise it as a game with no sign-up: https://peabody.kids/math/measure.order3?lesson=1-measure-order-1&at=1

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Use the first three questions on the printable sheet as a slip.

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Put three in order (1st grade)

  1. Which list puts the bars in order from shortest to longest?
    ABC
  2. Which list puts the bars in order from shortest to longest?
    ABC
  3. Which list puts the bars in order from shortest to longest?
    ABC
  4. Which list puts the bars in order from shortest to longest?
    ABC
  5. Which list puts the bars in order from shortest to longest?
    ABC
  6. Which list puts the bars in order from longest to shortest?
    ABC
  7. Which list puts the bars in order from shortest to longest?
    ABC
  8. Which list puts the bars in order from longest to shortest?
    ABC
  9. Which list puts the bars in order from shortest to longest?
    ABC
  10. Which list puts the bars in order from longest to shortest?
    ABC
  11. Look at the three bars. Which bar is in the middle in length?
    ABC
  12. Which list puts the bars in order from shortest to longest?
    ABC
Key
  1. B, A, C
  2. A, B, C
  3. A, B, C
  4. A, B, C
  5. B, A, C
  6. A, B, C
  7. A, B, C
  8. B, A, C
  9. A, C, B
  10. A, B, C
  11. A
  12. B, A, C

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