Here's the second part of our work with greater than and less than. Today we made a chart similar to yesterday's, only this time we randomly filled in numbers in the two columns. We talked about what we did yesterday, using our symbols to show the truth of relationships. Then we discussed that numbers have relationships, too. The boys used the small symbol we made yesterday to show the truth in the relationship between the two numbers on their charts, and then they wrote the symbol in on the chart. Again, neither boy made a mistake with assigning the correct symbol. I just love how they are "getting" this stuff! This first chart is J's.
Zoo Boy's chart. I helped him make his "8" (he still has a lot of problems crossing his midlines), otherwise he did all the writing himself. He wasn't happy with the one greater than symbol between the 10 and 8, so he crossed it out and did another.
Then I spread dot cards (stiff cards with dots on them like dominoes) around the living room in a circle, with space between each card. I handed the kids our large symbol and told them to lay the symbol between any two cards in a way to show the truth about their relationships. Here J indicates that 7 is less than 11.
Zoo Boy counts the dots on the 8 card to confirm how many there are before making his decision of where to place his symbol.
He makes his decision, placing the symbol to show that 11 is greater than 8. Again, the kids didn't make any mistakes and seem to have a pretty solid understanding of the greater than/less than concept. They played several round of the game, then J switched the cards around to create new pairing of relationships, and also combined cards to make new, larger numbers to work with. Zoo Boy enthusiastically claimed "This is FUN!"Next week: Odd and Even
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