Greater Than, Less Than with Base Ten Blocks
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Greater Than, Less Than with Base Ten Blocks
Greater than, less than worksheet with base ten blocks: four pairs of numbers to 50, each drawn as tens and ones. Compare the tens, then the ones, and write the < or > sign in the circle. Grade 1, with an answer key.
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Comparing Two-Digit NumbersA teaching handout to hand out before this sheet: the rule, worked examples and common mistakes.- Pages
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Compare two numbers to 999 by their hundreds, then their tens, then their ones, write the result with >, < or =, and put numbers in order from least to greatest or greatest to least.
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How to use this sheet
- Have the child say the comparison as a sentence before writing a sign: "45 is greater than 38."
- For close pairs, compare the tens first, then the ones only if the tens are the same.
- Model the numbers with base ten blocks or quick drawings of tens and ones for any pair the child gets wrong.
Common mistakes
- Reading the sign the wrong way, so 45 < 38 is read as "45 is greater". Remind the child that the sign opens toward the larger number.
- Comparing only the last digit, so 29 seems greater than 41 because 9 is greater than 1. Ask "How many tens?" first.
- Comparing 99 and 100 by the first digit, so 99 seems greater because 9 is greater than 1. Count the digits first.
