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POSitiONAl NumberS Century #Life Skills and Values
Skills
Have you ever seen a queue at a bus stop? Look at the picture below. How can

we tell the order in which the people will board the bus?

First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh eighth ninth Tenth

numbers such as first, second, third, fourth,
fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth Tips

are called positional numbers.

Positional numbers are used to denote the Positional numbers are also
position of an object in a given order. called ordinal numbers.

Exercise 2J

1. Colour the second balloon red and the eighth balloon brown from the left.

2. Colour the third crayon red and the seventh crayon brown from the right.

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Numbers up to 20