Learning about ordinal numbers and position is crucial for young elementary school students as it helps to develop their foundational understanding of order and sequence. Ordinals provide students with the vocabulary and conceptual knowledge to describe and compare the positions of objects or events, such as "first," "second," and "third." It will allow students to follow sequences in storytelling or directions and participate in activities involving ordering or ranking. These skills are critical in mathematics for understanding numerical order and patterns, language arts for sequencing stories, and everyday life for organizing tasks and understanding time.