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Can you place these quantities in order from smallest to largest?

In Order

Can you rank these quantities in order? You may need to find out extra information or perform some experiments to justify your rankings.

Discuss and Choose

This activity challenges you to decide on the 'best' number to use in each statement. You may need to do some estimating, some calculating and some research.

Order the Changes

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level

Can you order these pictures of the development of a frog from frogspawn?
 
 
And these of a bean seed growing into a plant?
 

 
 You can download a copy of the frog pictures here and the bean pictures here.
 
We would be interested to hear not just about your final order, but how you decided upon the order.
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