{"id":943,"date":"2014-12-02T02:19:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T09:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/?page_id=943"},"modified":"2015-07-08T10:53:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T16:53:05","slug":"greater-than-less-than","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/greater-than-less-than\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastering \u201cGreater Than\u201d and \u201cLess Than\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is an easy way to teach your children how to remember the \u201cgreater than\u201d and \u201cless than\u201d symbols in their Math lesson!<\/p>\n

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First, draw one of the symbols, \u00a0like this:<\/p>\n

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Now, make that symbol into a big fish\u2019s mouth like this:
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The fish has a BIG mouth that loves to eat the most he can get: \u00a0the largest numbers. \u00a0So the big, open part of the mouth always faces the largest number.
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If a child can remember to have the fish\u2019s mouth face the direction of the larger number, so he can gobble it up, he\u2019ll never get confused again with \u201cgreater than\u201d and \u201cless than\u201d problems again.
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Here is an easy way to teach your children how to remember the \u201cgreater than\u201d and \u201cless than\u201d symbols in their Math lesson!   First, draw one of the symbols, \u00a0like this:   Now, make that symbol into a big fish\u2019s mouth like this:   The fish has a BIG mouth that loves to eat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,9],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-math-articles","category-what-articles","tag-math-tricks","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/masteringgreaterthan3.jpg?fit=360%2C316&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6IrRN-fd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":501,"url":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/opposite-math\/","url_meta":{"origin":943,"position":0},"title":"Opposite Math","author":"Diane Hopkins","date":"","format":false,"excerpt":"Hot . . . 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