{"id":3055,"date":"2020-04-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2020-04-13T12:37:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T16:37:53","slug":"comparing-numbers-greater-than-less-than-equal-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/2020\/04\/17\/comparing-numbers-greater-than-less-than-equal-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing Numbers (Greater than, Less than, Equal to)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Greater than means BIGGER! Less than means SMALLER! Equal to means the SAME! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is how I explain the concept in class to the children. I also tell them that the greater than symbol looks like an alligator and that the alligator always wants to eat the bigger number so he can grow big and strong!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch this youtube video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mr. Alligator Can Chomp | Math Song for Kids | Less Than and Greater Than | Jack Hartmann\" width=\"1106\" height=\"622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xGvrG6049wE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some resources to help the children understand greater than, less than, and equal to concepts of comparing numbers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1409\/2020\/04\/GreaterThanLessThanEqualTo.pdf\">GreaterThanLessThanEqualTo<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1409\/2020\/04\/GreaterThanLessThanEqualTo.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1409\/2020\/04\/ComparingNumbersfrom0to20CutandPasteActivity.pdf\">ComparingNumbersfrom0to20CutandPasteActivity<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1409\/2020\/04\/ComparingNumbersfrom0to20CutandPasteActivity.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1409\/2020\/04\/FunFrogMathGreaterThanLessThan.pdf\">FunFrogMathGreaterThanLessThan<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1409\/2020\/04\/FunFrogMathGreaterThanLessThan.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1409\/2020\/04\/GreaterThanLessThanPrintablesNOPREP-1.pdf\">GreaterThanLessThanPrintablesNOPREP-1<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1409\/2020\/04\/GreaterThanLessThanPrintablesNOPREP-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1409\/2020\/04\/More-or-Less-Than.pdf\">More-or-Less-Than<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1409\/2020\/04\/More-or-Less-Than.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1409\/2020\/04\/GreaterThanandLessThan.pdf\">GreaterThanandLessThan<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1409\/2020\/04\/GreaterThanandLessThan.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope these resources help to enrich your math learning at home!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greater than means BIGGER! Less than means SMALLER! Equal to means the SAME! This is how I explain the concept in class to the children. I also tell them that the greater than symbol looks like an alligator and that the alligator always wants to eat the bigger number so he can grow big and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3062,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions\/3062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}