Hey there, do you ever get the "less than"
and "greater than" symbols mixed up?
In this video I'm going to show you an easy way to tell the difference between them
I'm gonna first introduce you to my buddy,
Greater Gator...
He's an alligator and he loves to eat. He has a very big mouth
and he loves to eat
the bigger numbers. He doesn't really care
too much about the little numbers.
So look at the shape of his mouth. It's bigger towards the side
of the bigger numbers. So let's try this
with some actual numbers.
Um...ok, we'll have 16 and 8,
which one is bigger, 8 or 16?
16 is the bigger number so Greater Gator's mouth
faces in the direction of 16.
The bigger part faces 16.
Let's try a couple of other numbers.
We have 22 and 29. 29...22...which one is bigger?
29 is bigger so we're gonna make his mouth
facing the 29, bigger on the side of the
29.
Here's all his big ol' teeth, he's very happy right now.
29 is greater than 22
and 22 is less than 29.
And that's how you tell the difference between the "greater than" and "less than" symbols
