Maori numbers

Word Practice

LEARN: We are learning to count in Māori

Proverb of the week: Hōhonu kakī, pāpaku uaua - long on words, short on actions.

This week in Te Reo Māori, we are learning about numbers.

• It does take a bit of time and practice.

Fill in the missing numbers in yellow and continue all the way up to rima tekau (fifty).

kore	zero	tahi	one
rua	two	Toru	three
whā	four	rima	five
ono	six	whitu	seve
waru	eight	iwa	nine
tekau	ten	Tekau ma tahi	eleven
Tekau ma rua	12	Tekau ma toru	13
Tekau ma wha	14	Tekau ma rima	15
Tekau ma ono	16	Tekau ma whitu	17
Tekau ma waru	18	Tekau ma iwa	19
Rua tekau	twenty	Rua tekau ma tahi	Twenty one
Rua tekau ma rua	22	Rua tekau ma toru	23
Rua tekau ma tahi	24	Rua tekau ma wha	25
Rua tekau ma rima	26	Rua tekau ma ono	27
Rua tekau ma whitu	28	Rua tekau ma waru	29
Toru tekau ma tahi	Thirty one	Toru tekau ma rua	32
Toru tekau ma toru	33	Toru tekau ma wha	34
Toru tekau ma rime	35	Toru tekau ma ono	36
Toru tekau ma whitu	37	Toru tekau ma waru	38
Toru tekau ma iwa	39	Tekau wha	40

Write the Māori word for each number

21	33	66	28
99	43	76	39
31	58	55	52
79	61	24	87
90	89	42	18
40	4	13	85

 

We also played a game called bingo and that helped us learn the Maori numbers.