Name: Jubilee Tai Teacher’s Name: Ms.

Jordt

Grade: 2nd Subject: Shared Math

# of Students: 20 Lesson: Comparing Numbers

Objective: Students will be able to use greater than, less than, or equal to symbols to compare two numbers.

Essential Outcomes: Compare two two-digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and ones digits, using

>, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons.

Introduction:

1. Pass out two piles of chocolate chips to each table, one pile has four chocolate chips and the other has

eight.

2. Pass out one whiteboard, dry erase marker, and eraser to each table.

3. Ask each table to count the two piles of chocolate chips and write the amount of each on a white board.

4. Ask them which pile they would rather eat and express their opinion by going to the right side of the

room for the 4 count pile and the left side of the room for the 8 count pile

5. Have tables go back to their seats and draw the inequality showing that the one you want to eat more is

the bigger number of chocolate chips.

Input:

1. Have students take out a pencil and their Go Math Chapter 1 Book.

2. While students are taking out their materials, write the numbers 95 and 29 on the front whiteboard side

by side. Make sure to leave space between the numbers for a comparison symbol. (These numbers and the

following problems are all from the Go Math Chapter 1 Book).

3. Ask all students to come sit at the carpet at once.

4. Explain to students that you have two numbers. One number will be bigger and another smaller or they

could be equal.

5. Associate the numbers to candy and ask students “Now would you rather eat 95 pieces of candy or 29?”

6. Pick a student and after he/she answers, either confirm their right answer (95 pieces) or explain their

wrong one (29 pieces).

7. If right say: “That’s right I would rather eat 95 pieces of candy because it is more” and draw in the

greater than symbol in the space between the numbers.

8. If wrong say: “Not quite! Why would I rather eat 29 pieces of candy when I have 95? It is less candy”

and draw in the greater than symbol in the space between the numbers.

9. Have them go back to their seats and “make your book look like mine” (copy what is written on the

board).

10. Repeat steps 2 through 9 with the numbers 12 and 87, but draw a less than sign this time.

11. Repeat steps 2 through 9 with the numbers 35 and 14, but draw a greater than sign this time.

12. Repeat steps 2 through 5 with the numbers 21 and 21.

13. If he/she replies with something along the lines of them being equal, explain they are correct because 21

and 21 are the same number.

14. If he/she replies with something along the lines of them not being equal to each other, explain that they

are the same number so the numbers should be the same amount as each other.

Check for Understanding:

1. Before class, use the Classkick app to create a question for the students to answer after the lesson The

problem is asking them to complete the inequality with the symbol between the two numbers which are 20 and

41. (Classkick is an app that allows teachers to create questions for students to answer after the lesson. It gives a

summary of the results on the teacher’s iPad so he/she knows who is having trouble with the lesson)

2. Have students go back to their seats a take out their iPad.

3. Have students complete Classkick before they start their independent book problems.
4. Call back the students who had trouble with the question into a guided group to further assist them.

Summary:

1. “Today we learned how to compare two digit numbers using <, >, and = signs.”

2. “Tomorrow we will learn how compare three digit numbers using the same signs.”

Materials List:

● Ladybug

● Go Math Chapter 1 Book

● Whiteboards

● Dry erase markers

● Dry erasers

● iPad

● A bag of chocolate chips