Lesson Two – Greater and Less Than

This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to illustrate how to use the symbols for greater and less than to compare numbers that have been multiplied by ten, one hundred and one thousand.

The class can identify and explain how the digits in the numbers change their place value when multiplied by different powers of ten to compare using the symbols for greater and less than.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to illustrate how to use the symbols for greater and less than to compare numbers that have been multiplied by ten, one hundred and one thousand

Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to practise using the symbols for greater and less than to compare different numbers that have been multiplied by ten, one hundred and one thousand when recording changes to the place values of the digits.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use the symbols for greater and less than to compare numbers multiplied by ten, one hundred and one thousand.

This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to model and illustrate changes to the place value of the digits in different numbers when multiplying and dividing by ten, one hundred and one thousand. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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