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Prerequisites
- A knowledge of place value would be helpful.
A starting point: Place value
With thanks to Steve, whose Place Value Review worksheet is available here. Material modified and embedded here under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.Ordering positive and negative integers
Teacher resources
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- Slides in PPTX (with click-to-reveal answers)
- Slides in PDF (one slide per page, suitable for importing into IWB software)
- Worksheet (with space for student work)
- Handout (slides with exercises only; 4 per page for reduced printing)
- Skills drill worksheet (40 questions on one side of A4; answers included)
Links to past exam and UKMT questions
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Unlimited practice questions: Highest and lowest numbers
Unlimited practice questions: Place value
This activity goes a step further than the lesson by introducing place value columns after the decimal point.
Cross-curricular link: climate change
This is based on data from https://www.globalwarmingindex.org
- Look at the temperature change. What is the value of the eighth digit after the decimal point?
In the real world
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What next?