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Important update from TheSchoolRun

For the past 13 years, TheSchoolRun has been run by a small team of mums working from home, dedicated to providing quality educational resources to primary school parents. Unfortunately, rising supplier costs and falling revenue have made it impossible for us to continue operating, and we’ve had to make the difficult decision to close. The good news: We’ve arranged for another educational provider to take over many of our resources. These will be hosted on a new portal, where the content will be updated and expanded to support your child’s learning.

What this means for subscribers:

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  • As a thank you for your support, we’ll also be sending you 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep.

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What is ascending order?

Ascending order
We explain what ascending order means, how children are asked to sort into ascending order in primary school and give examples of how the concept might relate to numbers, dates, decimals or alphabetical lists.

What is ascending order?

When a group of numbers are given in ascending order, this means they are given in order from smallest to largest (ascending means 'going up').

Ascending order in KS1 and KS2

Children are often asked to order numbers.

In Key Stage 1, they may be asked to order two-digit numbers such as the following:

58  15  85  49  30

In Key Stage 2, children are often asked to order decimals such as the following:

0.4  0.18  0.9  1.2  0.49

They will usually be asked to put the numbers in order from smallest to largest. It is rare that they will be expected to know what 'ascending' means, however it is useful for them to be aware of this term.

If you are asked to put a list of dates in ascending order, that would be from earliest date to latest date, so these dates:

05/09/13  06/01/13  09/07/13

would be changed into this order:

06/01/13  09/07/13  05/09/13

Ascending order is also used for putting words into alphabetical order, from A to Z, so these words:

aardvark  squirrel  kangaroo  marmot

would go in this order:

aardvark  kangaroo  marmot  squirrel
 
Children might also be asked to order numbers, dates or words in descending order.