Year 5 · Autumn term · Place value · Step 11
Year 5 Comparing and ordering numbers up to 1,000,000 worksheets
Compare and order numbers up to a million. A free editable Word sheet with eight fluency and six reasoning questions. The answers follow the questions: the same sheet again with every answer in red.
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Print on A4 portrait: every page carries the sheet twice, side by side, so you can cut down the middle and two pupils each get a half to stick in their books. Every question sits in its own box and pupils write their answers in their book. The answers follow the questions in the file: the same sheet again with every answer in red. It opens in Word, Google Docs, Pages and LibreOffice, so you can change numbers, delete questions or add your own. There is no scaffolded version of this step yet.
Not scaffolded sheet
The same questions without the extra support. For pupils working at the expected standard: eight fluency questions first, then the reasoning questions.
Sample questions from this step
These are real questions from the first set of the sheet (two from the fluency page, two from the reasoning page). Open each one to see the answer.
- Write the number shown in each place value chart. Then write <, > or = to compare them.Chart AChart BA = ____ B = ____A ____ B
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A = 414,442, B = 414,542; so A < B
- Circle the greatest number in each list. Write it.a) 572,366 787,436 210,949 428,461 ____b) 959,244 957,426 950,131 954,888 ____c) 572,053 572,142 572,184 572,198 ____
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787,436; 959,244; 572,198
- Here are two numbers made on a place value chart.Chart AChart BA is greater than B because A uses more counters.Is Boba correct? Circle yes or no.Circle yes or no.Explain how you know.
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No; A is 232,436 and B is 310,011. B is greater, because its hundred thousands digit is bigger. A has more counters, but the columns they are in matter more.
- Sort the numbers into the groups. Write the letters.a) 736,341b) 16,393c) 169,262d) 716,501e) 751,043f) 148,623less than 80,000: ____greater than 180,000: ____between 80,000 and 180,000: ____
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b; a, d, e; c, f
What is on each sheet
- Fluency: eight questions that start easy and get harder, with the key skill of the step practised in different ways.
- Reasoning: questions with pictures, tables and number lines (spot the mistake, true or false and explain, puzzles with one answer, an open-ended task).
- Answers in the same file: the sheet again with every answer in red, so there is only one file to download.
- Boba characters give the instructions in speech bubbles. They are decoration only.
Why one set of questions?
- Everyone works on the same content, and support comes from scaffolds instead of different, easier tasks. This follows the mastery approach described by the NCETM and the thinking in Ofsted's 2021 mathematics research review.
- Worked examples and visual representations lighten the load for pupils who need it, as the Education Endowment Foundation describes.