Comparing and Ordering Numbers Game Counting to 100 Number Sense Activity

Looking for a fun interactive teaching idea for counting and ordering numbers to 100? Well look no further as Ordering Numbers Game Puzzles for Counting to 100, CCSS K.CC.2, will serve as an exciting lesson plan for Kindergarten elementary school classrooms. This is a great resource to incorporate into your unit as a guided math center rotation, review exercise, small group work, morning work, remediation, intervention or rti. It can also be used as a quiz, drill, test, or assessment tool to help determine student mastery of the learning target. Whether a student is homeschooled or given this as a homework assignment, kids will also love working on these at home to improve their skills.

This puzzle set includes 24 colorful jigsaw puzzles, answer key, and an optional station instruction page with an example. These come as pdf printable sheets that can be printed on card stock and laminated for long-term use. As a suggestion, store them in a sealable gallon storage bag and place them in a tub or bin for students to use throughout the year for enrichment when they finish early. Another idea, for a project, is students can glue the completed puzzles into a notebook or journal as a reference sheet. They can also be glued on a poster for displaying on a bulletin board or as a wall anchor chart.

It covers counting forward from a given number to fill in the missing numbers from the counting sequence. By solving the questions to finding the matching puzzle pieces, students can gain confidence in an important and sometimes challenging skill. Your kindergartners will love to practice and learn to develop strategies about counting to 100!

I hope you download and enjoy this engaging hands-on manipulative number sense activity with your students! So set those worksheets aside and give our puzzles a try!

Relevant Kindergarten Common Core Standard K.CC.A.2
Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1).
Cross Reference: Texas TEKS K.5 Virginia SOL K.4