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Know the Words for the Numbers

In this worksheet, students will read the numbers and then select the correct word spelling for those numbers.

'Know the Words for the Numbers' worksheet

Key stage:  KS 2

Year:  Year 3 Maths worksheets

Curriculum topic:   Number: Number and Place Value

Curriculum subtopic:   Read and Write Numerals/Words to 1000

Difficulty level:  

Worksheet Overview

This activity is about reading two-digit numbers correctly.

 

The left digit tells you how many tens, like twenty, thirty, forty, fifty....etc.

The right digit tells you how many ones.

 

When the tens digit is 1, we have numbers like thirteen, fourteen, fifteen...etc....

 

When the tens digit is bigger than 1, we use twenty-, thirty-, forty-, etc....

We put a hyphen or dash between two number words, unless the tens digit is 1.

 

Examples

17 seventeen

38 thirty-eight

49 forty-nine

80 eighty

 

Shall we have a go at some questions now?

 

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