Video Transcript
Are there more balls or more
rackets?
In the picture, we can see a
row of tennis balls. And above them is a row of
tennis rackets. The question is asking us to
compare these two groups of objects together. Which is greater? Are there more balls or are
there more rackets? Sometimes when objects have
been arranged in a line, we can compare the lines and see which is longer. If we do this, we can see that
the line of tennis rackets is longer than the line of balls. Does this mean there are more
rackets?
Well, no it doesn’t because a
tennis racket is longer than a tennis ball. And the way our lines of
objects have been made are not equally spaced. But you know we can still
compare the groups by matching each ball with a racket. One, two, three. But we don’t have a racket to
match the last ball to. This means there must be more
balls than rackets. The group of balls is larger
than the group of rackets. So are there more balls or more
rackets? There are more balls.
