Here is an easy way to teach your children how to remember the “greater than” and “less than” symbols in their Math lesson!
First, draw one of the symbols, like this:
Now, make that symbol into a big fish’s mouth like this:
The fish has a BIG mouth that loves to eat the most he can get: the largest numbers. So the big, open part of the mouth always faces the largest number.
If a child can remember to have the fish’s mouth face the direction of the larger number, so he can gobble it up, he’ll never get confused again with “greater than” and “less than” problems again.
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