How will they know if they are reading it correctly? The numbers should be in the correct order (unlike 4 < 11 read as “eleven is greater than four”), and the number sentence should make sense. Then it is a matter of practice with reading the inequalities aloud, to teachers, classroom partners, and parents. Second, students should read the whole inequality, naming numbers and symbols left to right, like they would read any sentence. If they forget which is which, I like to point out that the less than symbol makes an L. This is actually a simple, and more fruitful, switch.įirst, explicitly teach that the symbols have names. Tips for teaching greater than/less than (without the alligator mouth) Taken with a pair of numbers, the greater than and less than symbols form “inequalities,” a fundamental way of explaining the relationship between two numbers. We have the opportunity to teach how the language of all math works. However you choose to practice more than, less than, your child is sure to pick up on it quickly! Check out Spielgaben on their website and don’t forget to email them to ask for the discount for OPC readers at. Count the items in the bowl and let her decide which one she would like to eat. Practice More and Less at snack time- prepare more than one bowl of snacks, and have your child estimate which bowl has more and which has less. Pull two numbers from the container, and have your child decide which number is bigger (using manipulatives as needed).ĥ. Write numbers 1-10 (or for older children, larger numbers) and place them in a container. Young children can use manipulatives (for example, place three counting beads on the number three) so they can easily see the numbers growing in value as they put them in order.Ĥ. Have your child arrange them in order from least to greatest. Write down numbers 1-10 on pieces of paper. Little Miss stacked the beads up to see easily at a glance which number was greaterģ. Use manipulatives, like our Spielgaben beads, to compare small numbers and see which one is greater. Explain that More Than and Less Than symbols are like hungry alligators! Draw teeth on the symbols to show them “eating up” the larger number.Ģ. Speilgaben’s Math Guide suggested playing this game with three digit numbers as well, but Little Miss isn’t quite ready for that yet! We’ll have to pull out that lesson again later to explore numbers more! 5 more ways to practice greater than/less thanġ. She stayed engaged with this game quite a while… everything is more fun when dice are involved! We did this again and again for a while before upping the challenge level!įor the next activity, we rolled dice with numerals on them, and I had her name the number, count out the same number of pieces and decide if the numbers were more than, less than, or equal.įinally, we practiced comparing two digit numbers by rolling the dice – if she rolled a “6” and a “4” she had to decide which number was larger, 46 or 64 (and, say the numbers, which can be a challenge for a Kindergartener!). I started by putting out small piles of manipulatives so she could count them, and then decide if the piles were equal or if one had more or less objects than the other. We started the lesson by letting her just play around with the pieces (open play is always a great way to start!) and then I explained what those symbols meant. Our Spielgaben set came with a ton of lesson plans and worksheets, so I pulled out the lesson on More than, Less than from the Math Guide and got to work.įirst, I introduced Little Miss to the equality and inequality symbols. So, we brought out our handy Spielgaben set and Math Guide, and got to work!
#GREATER THAN LESS THAN EQUAL TO KINDERGARTEN LESSON PLANS HOW TO#
When I handed her the “more than, less then” worksheets from our math curriculum, I quickly realized that my little girl, who is so obsessed with everything getting the same amount of Frosted Flakes in their cereal bowl, had no idea what the greater than/less than symbols meant, or how to solve the problems.
Little Miss is chugging along with her Kindergarten studies! OPC readers can get a special discount on their manipulative set by reaching out to. This post is sponsored by Spielgaben, creators of colorful, heirloom quality educational materials.
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