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Introducing Greater Than, Less Than and Equal To Year 1 Place Value Learning Video Clip

Introducing Greater Than, Less Than and Equal To Year 1 Place Value Learning Video Clip

Step 10: Introducing Greater Than, Less Than and Equal To Year 1 Place Value Learning Video Clip

Jungle Jim is feeding the animals in the jungle. He needs to look at how many animals there are and compare this with the amount of fruit available, then decide whether he has enough or not.

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Discussion points for teachers

  1. Does he have enough bananas to feed the monkeys? Discuss the amount of bananas in the basket and the amount of monkeys Jungle Jim need to feed. Use the language ‘greater than’, ‘less than’ and ‘equal to’ and the associated symbols (>, <, =).
  2. Help Jungle Jim see if he has enough mangoes for the sloths to eat. Discuss the amount of mangoes in the basket and the amount of sloths Jungle Jim need to feed. Use the language ‘greater than’, ‘less than’ and ‘equal to’ and the associated symbols (>, <, =).
  3. Does Jungle Jim have enough passion fruits for each of the toucans? Discuss the amount of passion fruits in the basket and the amount of toucans Jungle Jim need to feed. Use the language ‘greater than’, ‘less than’ and ‘equal to’ and the associated symbols (>, <, =).
  4. Is there enough of each food source to provide the animals with one each? Compare the number of animals with the amounts of their designated fruit. Use the symbols <, > and = to generate statements.
  5. What other statements can you make about the amount of each fruit and the animal they might be given to? Various opportunities to generate comparison statements using the symbols. Discuss that each ‘greater than’ statement can be flipped to use ‘less than’, for example, there is enough durian fruit for the monkeys as the number of durian fruit is greater than (>) the number of monkeys. Or, there is enough durian fruit for the monkeys as the number of monkeys is less than (<) the number of durian fruit.

National Curriculum Objectives

Mathematics Year 1: (1N4) Identify and represent numbers using objects and pictorial representations including the number line, and use the language of: equal to, more than, less than (fewer), most, least

Mathematics Year 1: (1N2c) Read and write numbers from 1 to 20 in numerals and words

This resource also covers the following objective from Year 2:

Mathematics Year 2: (2N2b) Compare and order numbers from 0 up to 100; use <, > and = signs

 

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