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Comparing Numbers with Symbols

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Comparing Numbers with Symbols

Comparing Numbers with Symbols

Crocodile eating numbers illustration

🐊 Part 1: Remember the Crocodile Rule!

The crocodile always eats the bigger number!

Use these symbols: > (greater than), < (less than), = (equal to)

1. Write the correct symbol (>, <, or =) between these numbers:

a) 25 _____ 18

b) 42 _____ 42

c) 16 _____ 29

d) 73 _____ 68

e) 35 _____ 53

f) 90 _____ 90

🎯 Part 2: Choose the Correct Symbol

2. Circle the correct symbol for: 47 ? 52

>

<

=

3. Circle the correct symbol for: 84 ? 84

>

<

=

4. Circle the correct symbol for: 63 ? 36

>

<

=

📏 Part 3: Using the Number Line

5. Look at this number line section: 20 - 25 - 30 - 35 - 40 - 45 - 50

Complete these number sentences:

a) 30 _____ 45 (Hint: Which number is further to the right?)

b) 50 _____ 25

c) 35 _____ 35

6. Draw your own number line from 60 to 70 and mark these numbers: 62, 67, 69

Now write: 62 _____ 67 _____ 69 (using symbols between each pair)

🍎 Part 4: Real-World Comparisons

7. Sarah has 38 stickers and Tom has 45 stickers. Who has more?

Write this as a number sentence: 38 _____ 45

8. Check all the TRUE statements:

56 > 49

23 < 32

77 = 77

81 < 18

94 > 99

🧩 Part 5: Number Puzzles

9. Fill in the missing numbers:

a) 34 < _____ < 40 (Write any number that fits)

b) 55 > _____ > 50

c) _____ = 72

10. Match each number sentence with the correct words:
1. 67 > 43
2. 29 < 82
3. 55 = 55
A. Twenty-nine is less than eighty-two
B. Fifty-five is equal to fifty-five
C. Sixty-seven is greater than forty-three

💭 Part 6: Explain Your Thinking

11. Explain how you know that 76 is greater than 67:
12. Create your own number comparison problem and solve it:

My numbers: _____ and _____

My number sentence: _____ _____ _____

13. Draw a picture to show why 8 > 3 (use dots, shapes, or objects):

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