Video Transcript
Use greater than, less than, or
equal to to complete the sentence.
This is an interesting sentence
because it’s made up of pictures, a word, and a gap. Let’s try and read it. This group of smiley stickers is
what this group of smiley stickers. Can you see what we need to do
here? We need to compare these two
groups. And we’re given some ways to
complete this sentence.
Perhaps there are more stickers in
the first group, in which case we need to use the words greater than and use this
symbol. Or maybe the first group is the
smaller group, and we need to say that it’s less than the second group. Or maybe both groups are exactly
the same, in which case we need to use the words “equal to.”
Now, just by looking at these two
groups without doing anything else, can you have a guess? Do you think the first group is
larger, smaller, or do you think they’re both the same? The only way we’re going to find
out really is by counting these groups. Let’s try counting them at the same
time. As we count each sticker, we can
cross them off. One, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.
We could stop here, couldn’t
we? Because we’ve run out of stickers
in the second group. There must be 15 stickers in this
group. Do you remember how to write the
number 15? It’s a one followed by a five. There are 15 stickers in the second
group. But we can see some more stickers
in the first group that we haven’t counted yet. We can see now that the first group
is bigger. There are two more stickers in the
first group than the second group, aren’t there? Should we count on from 15? 15, 16, 17.
We found that the first group is
larger than the second group. And so we know which words to
complete this sentence with. 17 is greater than 15. The first group is greater than the
second group. The words that we need to complete
this sentence with are “greater than.”
