These pages help break down standard language, lay out the grade-appropriate level of rigor for each concept, and offer a variety of suggestions for activities (lesson seeds) that help students achieve their learning targets. If you are interested in getting ideas on how to plan a robust standards-aligned telling time lesson, we recommend checking out Instructure's recommendations for common core standards 1.NBT.B.2, and 2.NBT.4. Look into the relevant standards here, or dig deeper into Inequality mathmatics here. This song targets TEKS and Common Core learning standards from both 1st Grade and 2nd Grade. Or write a line underneath the “less than” sign,Īnd "less than or equal to" is the name of this design. "greater than or equal to" is how the sign is defined. If there's a line underneath the “greater than” sign, Neither is greater or less it's a perfect tie, The gator wants to eat, but he can't decide. Now the numbers are the same on both sides. Nine’s the greatest ones place, so he takes a big bite. The gator needs (or finds) the greater value on the number line. The gator needs to eat the one with the greater value.įive’s the greatest tens place, so he takes a big bite. He looks at the place values from left to right Įight’s the greatest hundreds place, so he takes a big bite. The gator eats the one that's worth more. On a somewhat unrelated side note, Slater has an Australian accent and will get quite chatty towards the end of this comparing numbers song! Less Than Greater Than Lyrics: You can laminate the alligators and put adhesive magnets on the back to use on your chalkboard or dry erase board.Īfter a teacher’s request, I’ve added a set of smaller alligators that you can use for small groups.Slater is a very hungry alligator that is always comparing numbers and eating the number that is greater! Watch him walk around his hometown marsh and swamp in this greater than less than video as he eats human food and goes apple picking for the largest apple he can find. If your child is a little older and is ready for it, use the alligators to compare: This was quite challenging for her, so after a few more problems I let her get back to her reading. Then I made it even tougher with the above example. With an accompanying illustration, she was able to see that those are equal. When I saw that she knew that “2,465 is greater than 2,456”, I created more challenging problems involving fractions. I started with some larger numbers to give her practice with place value. These simple on the floor activities were far too easy for my Seven, who is going into second grade. After figuring out the answer, I had him read it using the words on the alligator. I got out my color tiles from my teaching days. We used a few toys with my Five too, but it became obvious that to help him work with larger numbers we’d need small manipulatives. I would set out small piles and ask my Four to tell me which was larger without counting. He understood that when the piles had equal amounts, he needed to choose the equal sign. If your child has trouble, you could draw a simple number line and show him how the larger numbers are farther on the line. My Four had no trouble figuring out greater than/less than for amounts under 10. After doing a variety of counting activities over the last year, he can count objects up to about 20 without much difficulty. After counting each pile, he identified the larger one and chose which alligator he would need to swallow up the bigger amount. We started by getting out our toy food and putting it in small piles that I knew my Four could count. After printing on cardstock and laminating, I brought them to the playroom. You can do this activity using only two things:Ī) the free alligator printables (get them at the end of this post)ī) something to count, like a stack of toys or small math manipulatives (for older kids, you just need a dry erase or chalk board)Īmong the three kids (ages 4, 5, and 7) we learned more about:įirst, I created some simple alligator less than, greater than, and equal to printables.
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