Order numbers to at least 10,000 on a number line

Summary: Create a closed number line with chalk or string. If drawing a number line with rope or chalk, you can take this activity outside. Have students write a 5-digit number. You might need to set some parameters dependent on your class context to differentiate this task. To scaffold the task, ask students to form small groups eg. form a group if your number has a 5 in the tens of thousands column and line up from smallest to greatest. OR if form a group if your number is between _ and _ and order yourselves from smallest to greatest . Then use the guiding questions to add some markers to the number line and then have each group put their number on the class number line.���

Summary: In pairs, students take turns to roll two 10-sided dice and make a 2-digit number. Using their coloured pencil, they must mark whereabouts on the blank number line they think that number would go. Students take turns to do this, and are aiming to make four in a row along the number line in their colour. Meanwhile, their partner is trying to stop them so they might play strategically by making and recording a number that breaks up their sequence of numbers along the line. This task can be extended by using more dice.

Summary: Players have one gameboard between two players. The deck of cards are facing down. Player one turns a card and then recalls the number before and after. If one of these numbers is on the game board, they put their counter on it. If player two has a counter on this number already, the say "Get outta my house!" and replace their opponents counter with their own. It is now player two's turn. The winner is the person with the most counters on the game board at the end of the game. This can be a set time or when all cards have been turned.